Valleywag
A select few of the 300 DoubleClick employees Google laid off yesterday will be placed into "transitional roles" and offered contract positions, reports the WSJ. That's not much of a reprieve. Google HR makes contractors sign agreements to abide by strict rules. They're not allowed to " use massage chairs, videogames, pool tables, foosball tables or other entertainment facilities on Google's campus," according to one such agreement leaked to us. Probably won't get to eat the food, either. Read the whole thing below:
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This is just pathetically inaccurate when applied to the DoubleClick acquisition. Bon Appetit employees are vendors to large companies' cafe food services, meaning they are guest food service workers--not even contractors, never DoubleClick employees, will never be Google employees. At any big company with cafeteria, janitorial, etc. services, there's a big difference between contractors and vendors. Yes, it's somewhat elitist for Google not let food prep workers use massage chairs, but these people aren't even contracted directly by Google, and this will never apply to fmr. DoubleClick employees, unless they want to become employees of Bon Appetit first.
Something makes me suspect the DoubleClick guys won't be cookin dinner.
I just accidentally posted an 11-word version of westphalia's rant. Can I start getting paid per pageview now?
thanks matto.
they can use a laundry room and a gym, but not a foosball table? seems weird.
COMPLETELY untrue. The only stuff contractors aren't allowed to use are the self-drive vehicles for getting round campus. And that's for insurance rather than killjoy reasons.
Please get your facts right! If contractors were treated like 2nd class citizens in the GOOG, you'd know about it by now...
Silly Valleywag, a contract for Bamco employees isn't what the Doubleclicks will be offered.
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