Subj : Re: morgan spurlock dead
To   : Tiny
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 28 2024 08:07 am

-=> Tiny wrote to MRO <=-

 -=> Quoting Mro to Tiny <=-

 Mr> I think what the powers that be are shooting for are live-work
 Mr> buildings. No need for a car.  no need to leave.

 Ti> That sounds horible.  I thought a tech company tried this and it failed
 Ti> on them?

 Facebook has built a campus in Menlo Park with housing, dining,
 entertainment, and more. It was finished right before COVID and remote
 work, I'm not sure what happened to it.

 From my perspective, it seems like another means of extracting more
 work out of employees, and building an echo chamber of like minds  -
 which isn't necessarily a good thing.

 They're also targeting recent college grads, who may have been
 comfortable in a social/college work environment where you worked and
 lived in the same environment without a sense of worktime/social time.
 Moving from that environment to a similar corporate environment would
 make it difficult to create separate work and social lives or work/life
 balance.

 And, what happens if/when you're laid off? I couldn't imagine losing your
 job and having to look for a place to rent at the same time. That's
 almost as bad as getting a grace period and living in the company of
 people you no longer work with.








 Mr> you live.  It's like you're in prison 24/7.  I've been doordashing a
 Mr> little bit and i've already seen some of these places.  They make it
 Mr> attractive but they are still cages.

 Ti> Not for me.

 Ti> Shawn

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