Tech office shuts down its free cocktail bar for employees, CEO says “The office is dead” — An experiment in 2020s, incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occ...

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• Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine thinking I’d like to travel to work 2-3 hours a day for a fucking cocktail.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can make myself all the cocktails I want working from home!

    … I just have to buy my own booze, though…

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    • monkeyman512@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which you can probably afford to do with the money you save working from here me.

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  • Selmafudd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean depending on if there was a drink limit or it’s just open bar I’d head in for Friday’s at least for unlimited drinks, but don’t expect too much out of me after lunch

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• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s turn offices into apartments and all work from home.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If we make these huge towers, we can have recreation, work and living all under one roof!

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mixed use zone urbanism?, well that sounds a lot like communism to me!

      /s

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Easier said than done. They commonly don’t have adequate plumbing.

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “But it’s haaaaaard” - the response to every minor challenge in America since landing on the fucking Moon

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good thing they have suspended ceilings so it’s easier to install anything needed from below then!

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So people would get champagne after drinking cocktails all day and then hop into their car and drive home? Is it the 50s again or something?

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  • bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Drive home? Tech job?

    Most people who work for tech will never drive to or from work in their life. (I legit wish I had the opportunity where it made sense vs sitting in an hour of traffic)

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    • StruckOutInSlowPitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No true anymore. Many tech jobs are returning to office, including my own. Slowly went from 1 to 2 to now 3 days a week. Sucks

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Funny because all the people I know who work in tech have to go to the office a couple of times a week 🤷

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• thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was a cool this 20 years ago. The OGs don’t care anymore because we want to spend our free time doing other things, not spending extra time at the office. Your booze and food tables aren’t the draw you think they are.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Speak for yourself. Lol I would partake in this activity but (maybe you’re half right) on a hybrid basis.

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• HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This post is a disaster.

  It says “An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also” three times.

  I get that it’s embedded or whatever, but reading this post was like having a stroke.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This bot always does this. It takes the opening blurb and copy pastes it, without realizing that the crawler returns the blurb as part of the blurb, and that Lemmy also displays a preview of the first few lines which is, you guessed it, the blurb.

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• cloud_herder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s so insane to think of this being an office perk. Just there for you to use… My office has a kitchen…

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is one of the more baller ones for sure.

    I work for a rapidly growing startup in a different industry and the most we have currently is a beer vending machine at one site that was inherited and P-Cards with the biggest limits I’ve ever seen. The only requirement with those is, “please don’t screw me.”

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    • shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What are P-Cards?

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    • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That p-card policy is a financial fraud disaster waiting to happen. It’s only a matter of when, not if.

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  • NuclearArmWrestling@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And I’ve got an ice maker and a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label. Who needs the expense and time of a commute when their perk is right downstairs for me?

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• 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not enough of an alcoholic to be enticed by free alcohol.

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• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok, can you remind me why people should work from the office? At this point a company requesting I work from the office is just a huge red flag

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    b b because of the cocktail bar!

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss the unofficial office pinball tournaments. The CEO, a guy from QA, a sr. support person, and I traded high scores on Deadpool pinball for the better part of a year.

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• thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No more look for that Balmer Peak!

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This one is a bit frivolous, but generally all of these things share a common tone, “We’re performatively punishing labor to send a message. We know Amazon/Starbucks unionized and the auto workers/writers/actors/health care workers went on strike, but you need to shut up and do more work until I no longer feel threatened like you might do the same”

  Again, this is a more frivolous example, but tech workers need to unionize. The only downside I can identify about remote work is that the company owns the “town square” or “lunch room” - don’t really have opportunities for the kind of quiet conversations where these things typically build momentum when they are indexing and have keyword alerts on your “private messages” with colleagues.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know, I got a full cocktail bar at home as well

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  • Bimbleby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mine keeps shrinking though, it’s really annoying!

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Went into my office on Friday to pick up a shipment, middle of the day, there were 5 people there. Everyone else working from home.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t mean much if we don’t know how many employees work for your company…

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Office has about 170 employees.

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “An experiment in 2020s”

  ???

  Motherfucker we are three years into the 2020’s.

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