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naem
May 29, 2011

etalian posted:

Wired upper management gets meltdown over their employee's filthy workplace:
http://www.theawl.com/2015/01/re-new-wired-offices

2010's 24 year old tech wiz and his college buddies sleeping in their office in hoodies playing WOW are going to be 2016's post IPO business casual stainless steel office space condo owner who fires people for pizza stains, are going to be 2020's 40 year old suit wearing divorced second marriage new parent executive who won't even interact with the new 20 year olds (doing the actual work) who sit bolt upright in identical cubicals in starched white shirt and tie outfits just watch

Haha kidding 97% of these companies won't exist that long

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naem
May 29, 2011

*hipster tech culture morphs inexorably into 1960's suit and tie IBM*

naem
May 29, 2011

Wafflz posted:

Aren't flavorless food squares/paste a key part of pretty much every sci-fi dystopia story?

"Sci-fi distopia" describes the Bay Area p well

naem
May 29, 2011

paranoid randroid posted:

its the biggest since the year that.... uh.... everything kind of... crashed

This is the best thing, that this ALL ALREADY HAPPENED and we KNOW it is a bubble and how it will end.

Google, Apple, yahoo, weathered the last one, anyone else?? They'll be fine I'm sure. This time I bet Facebook and Twitter will remain popular for a couple years at least, probably. Facebook will exist as a company if they can keep buying smaller social media things for a decade or so.

naem
May 29, 2011

Facebook is fun or whatever but so was MySpace

What's the difference again? Sparkles?

naem
May 29, 2011

As long as you're paying already, I mean,

naem
May 29, 2011

Like perhaps they could offer additional services, y'know,

naem
May 29, 2011

I've worked in several open seating environments with clear glass window walls and it's a great way for the entire floor to experience the homeless guys pooping equally

I post about "homeless guys pooping" a lot but honestly there's nothing quite like the FNAP sound of buttocks against the glass and then the SSSSSQUELCH!! of bodily fluids reverberating past a seas of office workers

naem
May 29, 2011

If I pay $600 dollars to a fake blonde named Mistey Dawn I'd better get more than a nice conversation naw say'n

naem
May 29, 2011

etalian posted:

cauterize the bay area off the face of the earth

Let me save up a down payment for a house first pls thnks

naem
May 29, 2011

Rode my bike to work next to a guy on an electric skateboard today

naem
May 29, 2011

Professor Tomtom posted:

Lol at biking to work and thinking that's somehow better.

Um it's 65 and sunny and I got exercise?

naem
May 29, 2011

thathonkey posted:

I would have no problem w bikers if they werent insufferable bout the fact they bike.

Like there are bike lanes and it's easy and lots of people do it, but it gets a lot of hate if mentioned ever here

naem
May 29, 2011

revmoo posted:

You gonna see him again?

What

naem
May 29, 2011

SaltLick posted:

a lot of cities dont have bike lanes for poo poo and have to play roulette with passing vehicles on whether they kill you or not

We have to dodge certain death here too but it's in a big, well defined bike lane painted in bright colors so at least your corpse will stand out

naem
May 29, 2011

I'm picturing a lone bicycle peddling calmly down a bike lane and cars just skidding off the road, hitting each other, mass pandemonium in his wake

naem
May 29, 2011

Why does porn not have its own domain?

.cum


It's so obvious

naem
May 29, 2011

It looks like a modern art sculpture is making sweet love to your b-hole

naem
May 29, 2011

Wafflz posted:

This gives me an idea for an app called MUGGR, it will be similar to that one but won't have any credit card fees.

Our agents are waiting in alleys near you! Just install our app and our gps locates you for a one on one transaction.

naem
May 29, 2011

It turns out that multiple dudes will do it with attractive 20 year old girls, who knew

naem
May 29, 2011

Leave it to Germans to overthink toilets

naem
May 29, 2011

Im posting on my iPhone 6+™ right now

naem
May 29, 2011

What happens when they've been there 6 months and realize it's a mistake and are trapped

naem
May 29, 2011

.random posted:

I feel like "augmented" will become a new euphemism someday.



*in nerd voice* "I never asked for this"

naem
May 29, 2011

Hal_2005 posted:

You would be shocked at how many ex escorts or Reno girls transitioned careers to personal EA"s. And I'm not talking about Electronic Arts booth babes. Not like that is a new thing, but I think valleywag (?) had something on this and the Snapchat offices & Skye office emails joking about the new 'talent'. Too lazy to find it. It's a thing.

Good thread. Should be juicy if we keep seeing margin and earning ROE's start to massively implode and all the good gossip goes public when employee stock programs start dissolving.

Pretty sure I work with some of these

naem
May 29, 2011

Is she divorced with child support? Because move somewhere cheaper, profit. Mission accomplished

naem
May 29, 2011

akasnowmaaan posted:

Bwahahahaha.

Dude, SF is half gay/lesbian and it's otherwise a tiny rear end town, so the actual number of single women / single men is one of lowest ratios in 'big cities' the world.

There was a recent study about the ability to get into relationships, SF was the worst. Least number of new relationships forming, least ability to start one.

If you're a hot skinny tattooed vegan lumbersexual bartender with a trust fund, sure, you can maybe pull some tail. If you can beat out the other five that hit on her just before you did.

If you're talking Oakland, that is somewhat better. But still, poo poo, and getting worse thanks to the bazillionaires and Saude/Russian investment groups buying up all the rental properties with cold hard cash forcing everyone interesting - and not tech rich - away.

I bailed on that noise and will never look back.

On the other hand it's chock full of hot single women who've moved here looking for single straight dudes and they're just as thirsty

naem
May 29, 2011

etalian posted:

not really the Bay Area world revolves around tech jobs, which means less hot women compared to DC or NYC

There's as many if not more hot women as other major cities, there are just a higher number of male nerds making me look awesome by comparison

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naem
May 29, 2011

Zelder posted:

I dig naem's argument of "nuh uh"

Maybe "being handsome" is throwing off my views of women in SF sry

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