Fuzzy Mammal posted:

Blodget peppered Bezos with questions about why Amazon is “famously frugal” and doesn’t match the type of employee perks that other high-profile tech companies offer — there are no free lunches at Amazon cafeterias, for example, and the cash components of employee salaries are often well below those of top competitors.

Bezos argued that Amazon has its own “very significant benefits.” One is Amazon’s location in the city of Seattle, instead of a suburban campus. That allows 20 percent of employees to walk to work.

Then there are the food trucks. “We have an unbelievable food truck scene around our headquarters,” he said. “It’s out of control, actually.” Amazon also allows employees to bring their dogs to work. But the real showstopper may be office windows that open, Bezos said. You read that right.

“People, it turns out, really like fresh air,” he said. Take that, Google!

pointers posted:

reading about interviewing for tech jobs (http://lizmrush.com/on-interviewing/ thanks to tef's blog for the link) and wondering how the gently caress you would address something like 'i left this position because my manager hit on me' or 'i left this position because it was near impossible to be productive when my only coworker didnt take me seriously as a woman'
not that i really want to go back into computers but lol how do you even address that without raising "red flags" for being 'over-sensitive' or something like that

Broken Machine posted:

Judging by the Spanish it's probably not in the US, likely Mexico

Sniep posted:

i, for one, think people of all races and creeds should stop hating on each other and/or killing each other for differences in races/creeds

but that is pretty radical

Maximum Leader posted:

hmm this sales man seemed completely in love with the product he was pushing
what a strange man

qirex posted:

same idea, different topic

e: I just realized that means you need a place to wait with your car for the 7 minutes or whatever it takes for the person to get there, like a "space" to "park" it in temporarily

duTrieux. posted:

i don't know who's worse at targeted ads, ea origin or spotify

in origin, i'll get ads and recommendations for games that i've literally just finished playing

spotify seems to think that i'm a middle-aged woman with diabetes who wants to buy a bmw

TheMadMilkman posted:

most kids know how to google something and then copy and paste it to their own page.

ANAmal.net posted:

lmao grindr

computer parts posted:

come to mexico for the real experience

qirex posted:

and the ultimate pimp palace for $10mm

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

seriously don't eat fish

don't feed fish to children

and lol soylent

coffeetable posted:

what's fantastic is that there're obviously a lot of people who weren't comfortable just walking out w/ poo poo under their jacket, but are fine w/ stealing via self-checkout

Necc0 posted:

oh hey perfect segue

here's a good talk by a smart dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM

Munkeymon posted:

would be totally worth it if Gatorade wasn't a thing

spending a whole day hung over sucks so loving much

qirex posted:

me either it's almost like they were paying a guy to drive an empty truck around for advertising purposes

broken clock opsec posted:

Not-luke hosed a space ferret, not-leia hosed an entire hive of space bugs (and possibly not-chewie, not-han, and variously other space-randos)

Anyway certainly a rich and powerful tapestry worth preserving and extending

Shaggar posted:

if you have the opportunity to eliminate labor costs without decreasing service/production levels it is your moral and ethical duty to your customers to do so.

qirex posted:

I read the first 3 books and they were decent political fantasy, I was commuting 3-4 hours a day and was buying books by length

ADINSX posted:

Our apartment complex in Seattle sent out some building wide notice that the company strictly follows the federal law and therefore all weed, even edibles, are banned from the apartment even though there is a dispensary right down the street.

Citizen Tayne posted:

For some reason there's a table here called MEXCRAP.

Stymie posted:

alcohol is a scourge and the shame of a nation

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

friend had a horrible coworker who would bring in a big bowl, a jar of cheese dip, a jar of mayo, dump them together and microwave until hot. then consume the whole thing in one sitting with a family sized bag of tortilla chips

C.H.O.M.E posted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-23/when-their-shifts-end-uber-drivers-set-up-camp-in-parking-lots-across-the-u-s

FCKGW posted:

thanks for this because I genuinely had no idea what really sxsw was

I forgot what other hot startups came out of sxsw besides foursquare and twitter and I forgot about this disaster a few years ago


also subway launched their flatizza at sxsw lol

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sxsw-best-wins-fails-history/

Bhodi posted:

paying homeless to lug around a router backpack is a little bit exploitative, don't you think

JawnV6 posted:

$250 is "outer avenues shared garage perpetually blocked in by tenant, no working on the car" discount special

PokeJoe posted:

"the train is delayed due to traffic ahead"

i get stopped on the train in the tunnel b/c the buses every 4th or 5th ride or so

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

the new guy at work wasn't eligible for his parental leave b/c he hadn't served a full year in full time capacity

being childless myself, i nagged my bosses relentlessly until they filed for a special exemption for him. a family-friendly workplace is in my best interest even if it never happens for me personally

fishmech posted:

apple was already beaten years ago yeah

fishmech posted:

hmm lets see:

apple computers: mega failures
apple phones: failures
apple internet services: failures
apple tablets: failures
apple users: failsons
last good apple product manufactured: december 1992

Shaggar posted:

yeah its the exact same stuff for only 1.5x the price.

Elysiume posted:

UnfurledSails posted:

come live in seattle never see the sun again