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cool user name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:51 PM
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Has anyone seen the workers' paradise that is Google?
It was exposed on Keith Olbermann.

Wow!
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:54 PM
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1. Was he talking about the new campus?
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 10:41 PM
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2. Tell us more.
Please.

:)
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:52 AM
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4. a bit more
"Google, based in Mountain View, California, ranks No. 1 largely due to amenities offered to employees, such as laundry, dry cleaning and automotive services, a swimming spa, gourmet meals, on-site massage and free on-site doctors, Fortune said.

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-09T032005Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-282742-1.xml
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:59 AM
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5. Google are clients of my husband's company
He's been to their campus before, and he reports the food's delicious.

Julie
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:40 AM
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7. next time he goes there you should try to go w/him and look around
and report back here--it looked fabulous (besides, it might be fun--everyone in the report on olbermann kept saying how fun it was to work there!)
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:27 AM
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9. I'll do that!
The last time he went there, he mentioned to the guy he'd been meeting with that I really wanted a gmail address and couldn't seem to find anyone I could be "invited" by. I had my new e-mail account before the end of the day.

Julie
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 10:45 PM
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3. Google is the best place to work. ever.
I don't work there, but I know people that do.

It's the anti-Walmart. Practically everyone is happy; there are apparently doctors onsite; and there is always yummy food of some kind.

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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:00 AM
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6. Heh Google has a page about their HQ, the Googleplex:
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:47 AM
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8. All are young, probably without families
who work their butts off, and like it.

Once upon a time I used to, too (not at Google)
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