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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code (www.businessinsider.com)

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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never understood that whole tech/startup culture. I would absolutely hate for my entire life to be my job. And from the outside all these "cool" perks are very clearly designed to get you to spend as much time working as possible. No thanks.

[–] Sunroc@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked normally hour, I just didn't need a full apartment. You going to start your work day there's breakfast you work there's lunch you work until 5:00 and then you go to the gym and then you go back for dinner when you do something cool in the city. I actually have really fond memories of that period.

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad it worked out for you. And I also know that my idea of it all can't possibly apply to every single company that was or is a part of that whole culture.

I just find myself sceptical of it all since I much prefer to have my own time, and my own space as separate from work and the people I work with. And perks like that just very clearly seem designed to get me to spend as much time at work as possible.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really think that it started as real perks to attract a lot of talent, and slowly got morphed and abused into a way to siphon minutes out of employees lives.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It kind of started when Google, Apple and others started colluding to keep wages low by refusing to hire each other’s talent. They’ve been found guilty of that and I got a nice check of about 10$ plus a pinky promise they wouldn’t do it again. Yeah!

[–] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 2 points 1 year ago

It started before that. In '98 I remember having dinner with someone who worked at Netscape before then who told me about how a co-worker had just been fired for living in the office, something they'd apparently decided to do in the first place because they already then had all of these perks designed to keep them in the office.

The Google, Apple etc. collusion certainly was a huge step up in abusive practices, though.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, I'm an engineer and my experience is the complete opposite, it's a super chill job and I have all the free time I could possibly want.

I guess it depends on what job you look for.