AllonzeeLVGoogle is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."
Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.
Companies will start using crypto as a way to recreate what scrip was back before it was banned. Meta made a play for that a few years back but luckily they failed.
Say what you want about crypto in general, but it’d be an extremely bad choice for company scrip…
Depends on the implementation, you can make contracts do anything, and if the bulk of the currency is premined and in the hands of the corporation, they can manipulate its value freely. Not every cryptocurrency works the way Bitcoin or Etherium work, some are quite centralised (see XRP for example).
Meta could demand that ads on its platform are paid in metabucks, pay employees (partly) in metabucks and manipulate the market by controlling liquidity. Essentially they’d be their own sovereign corporation issuing its own currency.
All true!
You should consider transaction fees though: someone’s gotta pay 'em. “Run their own chain” you might say, but then just use a database. Don’t need crypto-economic security when you’re the issuer and primary retailer.
That leads into having a public ledger. Great for public blockchains, but if you’re issuing company scrip, you probably don’t want outsiders auditing transactions.
Yeah, transaction fees can go to the issuer, so the corporation could double dip.
And as for transactions being publicly available on the ledger, SEC filings are public too, corporations openly bragged about raising prices beyond inflation and making record profits and they still had most of the populace convinced that the cause of inflation was just those darn lazy Millennials that didn’t want to work any more.
In the modern manufacturing consent era, it doesn’t matter that the truth is publicly available as long as you control mainstream media (which a corporation like Meta can easily do, first on their own platform and secondly by buying ads in the right newspapers).
Paddy's dollars.
originaluciferisnt this the opposite direction prospective employees would be going? who the hell is looking to live at their job?
live to work,
why e/se
why e/se
This is unfortunately really common in East-Asia. Samsung employees live in Samsung apartments, ride the Samsung metro to work, pay for things with their Samsung wallet, while they listen to Samsung controlled news. Google would love to become the Samsung of the West.
I’m fine with all of that if Samsung is paying.
Where does Samsung’s money come from? Like all corporations it comes from extracting the value of its laborers. If you’re working for Samsung, you are paying for the Samsung services, even if it’s not directly apparent.
I mean if you wanna play it like that, the money all comes from the consumers, so they should be allowed to stay in Samsung’s hotels for free, right?
$99 a night? That’s cheaper than most apartments there…
Yeah wtf I just looked and it says avg 1bdrm is $3500+
TigbittiesThat doesn't make it ok.
Yes, if you just don’t build houses for anybody but the wealthiest, you make more money for less work.
People gotta realize that the housing crisis was the “free market” solution.
tallwookiecheaper than most hotels, and certainly cheaper in any city the Google has a campus location at.
Slurp that Google dick all you want, they’re still not hiring you.
google ecosystem is better than anything else out there, prove me wrong
SpaceCadetWhat kind of 19th century style exploitation is this?
This kind of shit is why unions are needed.
We need unions for many reasons, but an employer offering optional housing onsite really isn't one of them. It's not like it's required to rent from Google to work there.
Tell me you know nothing about the history of worker’s rights in the US by saying something fucking stupid.
coehlThere’s a reason this worked in the past and it’s the unassuming veneer of it. This is the veneer.
spidermanThere are some companies that provide this for free.
tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺99$ a night so maje it a round 100 so only 2200$ a month. thats a steal!
Flying SquidThese days, that’s cheaper than a lot of places rent for and you get free maid service. Fucking Google might have accidentally stumbled upon something helpful. And $99 a night is not profitable for the sort of hotel their employees would actually want to stay in, so they still lose!
MostlyBirdsThis is only a temporary promotion. Tge price is not going to stay at $99/night, and it’s not an alternative ro rent, but in addition to it. This is not permanent housing, they’re fucking hotel rooms.
I wasn’t being serious.
Hard to tell, honestly. Too many people saying shit like that unironically these days.
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOXAh the 22 day month.
22 workdays in an average month.
They can just sleep on the streets on weekends.
they hopefully have some home and people to go to.
But they can pay their employer for the rest of those days.
Sounds like Google is trying to reinstate company scrip.
It exists because very few people say no. Meaning, we allow it to happen.
You have a right to self determination, exercise it.
You might want to mark that NSFW. Don’t want to be caught reading some discussion with the word union in it.
The sad part is that I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
It may be cheaper than a hotel or apartment, but why should an employee have to pay to go to work when they could be working remotely?
What if I paid to live there, but still worked remotely from my apartment or wherever?
FartsWithAnAccent“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
At $99/night it’s like renting for $3000/month. Even in silicon valley that’s pricey.
Fucking company town. Google has become a real shit company. Switch your default search to duck duck go or anything else people!
searx
Stefen AurisAs awesome as it is, it’s still a meta search engine so you’d have to remember to exclude Google. Otherwise hosting your own search engine is mega cool!
yeah, using a someone elses public searx (like i do ) just seems unhygienic.
The new Brave search is pretty great.
So this is absolutely a scummy move by google, no doubt, but google employees are some of the highest paid people in the world at this point. Boycott them if you want, but don’t feel like you have to right this injustice done to their employees, because they’ve still got it really good.
No I just mean the this is yet another item in a LOOOOOOOONG line of things where Google has gone the pure shit route.
In the last couple years, Google serves me more ads as search results than actual relevant results. The enshitification of the internet is real and I finally see it. I’ve have enough. Between Reddit, twitter, Google, SEO, Facebook and friends, Amazon becoming wish.con, etc everything is just going to shit. Maybe it makes me some old boomer dreaming of the glory days, but I’ve had enough. I refuse to be a product and I refuse to put any money towards these shitmaster overlords if there’s any way I can help it.
All fair reasons to use another service if that’s a deal breaker for sure
kamenokoThank you for defining the crab bucket mentally for everyone here!
You must have just missed my edit
Your edit doesn’t do it for me. You guys managed to get remote work, and now it’s being taken away. Do you think the pay scale has anything to do with what’s going on here?
Google still has fully remote employees, they’re asking non remote employees back into the office a few days a week
We are not the people that need fighting for
At least not yet. Wait until the capitalists start replacing us with cheaper AI
Lol shiiit stay away from my job ChatGPT!
TurtlePowerGoogle sucks, search with ducks!
AltoGod this dystopia is so boring
skellenerAnd evil.