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gamiziuk
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Posted: 2006-Jul-31 02:53
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It must really suck to work at Google!!!
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dudibob
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Posted: 2006-Jul-31 09:10
my god... talk about work hard play hard! lol
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Curt
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Posted: 2006-Aug-09 09:10
An employee might as well live at Google with all that fun and fringe benefits.
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-09 13:39
A day at MY work place:
I drop my wife off at work each morning, then head to the office for 8:30 AM.
I login, fetch a coffee (Starbucks from our cafeteria) and read the news sites, SEO sites, etc.
Meetings booked only after about 9:30 AM
I might have 2 - 3 meetings a week - most booked in the new wing of our building that we recently expanded, doubling our size.
My day is spent online. I manage all of the search-related functions for our 6 active websites, plus our growing list of partner websites (USA Today, MSNBC - those sorts of partners - there are over 50 of them now).
Lunch hits - I hang with some of the office hotties, we head to the mall, go for lunch nearby, walk the trail around the lake outside the buidling, etc. (Only in the summer, in the winter the lake is frozen, but we clear it for hockey on weekends.)
The afternoon is spent on strategic planning for our current products and future projects.
Around 3PM I grab a break and head to the cafeteria - where I have 6 old-school arcade-style video games to play (think Galaxian, Frogger, etc. - one of our employees restores them - he actually buys them by the warehouse!) If they don't interest me, there's the big-screen with home theatre, the Xbox 360, a few plasmas on the walls to tune in favorite shows (full satellite systems here), a bubble hockey table and shuffle board...and we have a keg here, too, for Friday evenings, etc.
Plus the patio with BBQ's.
Suffice it to say, there's more than enough in the cafeteria to fill 15 - 30 minutes of the afternoon.
Usually out of here by 5PM to go fetch my wife and head home to the dogs - hop back online, and play with my own projects. 
About every two months the company holds an event for us. This Friday we're going on a harbour cruise - pizza & beer here at the office before the cruise (Friday afternoon is a write-off...LOL). Drinks onboard, private bar afterwards.
Now, lots of folks look at places like Google and where I work (we're on online only company) and think, "Man, that's the life - I want to work there!"
The truth is it wasn't always this way. I've been here a bit over 5 years and back in the day, it was strictly beers after work in the local pub - and that was a big deal for us! LOL
Offering perks like these for employees is nothing more than a way to help create a specific culture in your workplace. It helps, too, that the company can write off many of the items it's purchasing, too. I don't make uber-bucks, but it's the best place I've ever worked, hands down - and that counts for a lot.
It took a tremendous amount of work for our company to get to where they are now. It takes huge amounts of effort from every employee to stay here, and grow further. I think it's worth it, and while I appreciate those items in our cafeteria that are there for me to enjoy, I usually just sit on the patio and catch up on industry reading each afternoon.
Many online companies that are successful have similar perks available to employees, and given they do business online, they're bound to be more progressive than any bricks & mortar company. By this virtue alone - that most working folks still go to a bricks & mortar office where their company supplies a direct product or service - older companies will not likely ever match the cultures found by employees of more modern, cutting-edge, web-based enterprises.
Even with all this available, the goal is still to generate enough money to work from home.
It's all about what matters to you as an individual.
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