Becoming *that* vendor
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I've never understood employers who advertise unlimited vacation, free Fußball, free ice cream (Dreamhost, that's you - what on earth are you thinking), etc - literally any "unlimited" perk. Massages are great, so is free lunch, but anything that tries to tickle the old part of your brain that wants to feast indefinitely on honey and milk doesn't seem like the way to go to get great employees and avoid the rotten ones (i.e. avoid those who want to work at your place because of the apparent 365/yr vacation).
Whenever I see companies tout silly things like "get-drunk-wednesdays" it just gives me a bad vibe of immaturity.
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@arh said:
Whenever I see companies tout silly things like "get-drunk-wednesdays" it just gives me a bad vibe of immaturity.
And what's more, and don't take this the wrong way employers, I don't want to fucking be there. See, I don't care how many perks you give me, I will never want to be at work rather than at home. When you try to make work "fun" you just end up meaning I have to be in the office more to make up for the time that was lost to massages or ice cream parties or whatever, which is the exact opposite of fun.
The other thing I find annoying about the whole "unlimited vacation" crap is that it's obviously crap, but we're both supposed to pretend like it's not. I mean, we all get that it's not really unlimited, but why the hell are you calling it that? No bosses? Then what do you call the person who is going to fire me when I spend all day supplementing my income with illegal Internet blackjack? I mean, either you think I'm dumb enough to be like "Woohoo, I have no boss!" or we both know this is just marketing bullshit you made up to lure people in.
And you know what? I want a boss. I want someone who can deal with all the irritating paperwork and meetings and turf wars. No, I don't want a dick boss, but there are plenty of great bosses out there. And when I don't have one, I'm usually miserable because I'm being pulled 20 different ways by 20 different people who all need my time and I have no way of knowing who to prioritize and who to not. And then you end up in some damn 3 hour meeting because one of the projects you deferred turned out to be from the CEO, via a circuitous route, so now you have to play Sherlock Holmes and try to track down the real source of any request and then decide whether you should do it or not. That sucks. I'm there to fix things, not to try to figure out if the Sales project is more important than the Marketing project.
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@superjer said:
I can almost see Valve's office from my office, so I'm close enough to hear the money printing in there.
When you open the window, and the wind is just right, you can hear
*ka ching* *ka ching* *ka ching* *ka ching*
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@morbiuswilters said:
@blakeyrat said:
I expect this kind of cram from the Boomzillas of the world, but I'm disappointed in you, Morbius.
Wait, what'd I do? I think I've laid out fairly clearly that it's a major usability WTF to not have text that can be resized. If people don't get that by now, me re-iterating it for the 30th time isn't gonna help. Instead I'd rather lambaste Ben for posting Wine trollbait.He doesn't really read anyone's responses and he doesn't even remember what he posted. If you seem to be not 100% on board with whatever is today's jihad, then you're evil or stupid or both. FTR, I don't think you're stupid.
