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i hate it here
Mission hipsters choose Google as their new object of hate
Here we go again. New graffiti on the sidewalk at 18th and Dolores claims nothing short of "Mission Exploitation" by Google employees. A decade ago, the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project posted flyers urging Valencia Street's self-styled "artists" to vandalize luxury cars. Some did. In 2008, most Web 2.0 workers aren't rich enough to draw the righteous anger of their slightly-less-privileged neighbors. Except for Googlers who dare move into the city's youth-culture ghetto between Cesar Chavez and Market. More »
5:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Paul Boutin
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great moments in hr
Google dresses up job listings for crappy jobs
In our "Googler's vent: working here sucks too" post, commenter tengallonhero does some venting of his own: To all the commenters saying "stfu and stop whining": the thing you're missing is the false advertising on Google's part. Google doesn't tell you when you're going through their intense and selective recruiting process that your job is going to be crap.
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i hate it here
Googlers vent: Working here sucks, too
Last quarter, Google hired 889 people, bringing the total headcount to 16,805. What do all these new employees do? Stab each other in the back, apparently. A tipster writes: "The management within Google, especially AdWords and AdSense (the money making machines of the entire company ... engineering gets the glory but advertising brings in the big bucks) are completely disorganized and chaotic (in a BAD way- because Google sometimes tries to spin the whole 'chaotic' thing in a good way)." There's much more:
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i hate it here
New Media Douchebags in Plain English
That Google Docs in Plain English video made me want to rewrite it. It squanders a whole TV minute mumbling documents nine times before offering an actual plain English term, i.e. a newsletter article. The narrator warns, "The same document will exist in four different places — that's a problem," without explaining why it's not great backup. And it detours into political correctness with a male-looking character named Sam who is abruptly called "she." Cool if Sam were real, but as a made-up character she disrupts the lesson. So I savor the double parody of New Media Douchebags in Plain English. Of course, I want to edit this one, too. More »
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