All my hopes in vain. Google Support rants don't get popular on HackerNews as... well.. everybody knows except me that you should not use or rely on Google. :/
Our department changed to new-work open space as well including those phone booths.
After just 15 minutes it gets uncomfortably warm in these but the worst thing is feeling of being in an aquarium. Coworkers watching from the side through the clear glass feels ultimately dystopian and exposed.
Other funny perks in the video won't stop me getting out there ASAP. Remote from home is liberating as I don't want to partake in any social experiments but just do my job. Sometimes I wish back the lockdowns of the pandemic to evade any nightmarish "office concepts".
Sounds like the effects when a company is blessed with good business for a long time but fails to adapt to upcoming required changed. I have experienced such places and it's real horror to change this situation.
Also the book "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem tells a story about distributed intelligent lifeforms.
Really nice as they are described in a very unique un-anthropocentric way, i.e. their rationality is hardly understandable by the space faring humans encountering them.
Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment?
I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always scary" would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.
A leader like Steve would be today called "toxic" and probably never promoted at all.
Local here.
We were told to enjoy about 60 additional freight trains per day.
The promised noise protection barriers were saved on due to budget after public voting went through.
Interestingly the ferry which is currently used to transport trucks is only at roughly half capacity.
It is a prestige project and I will have to move to some other place as I live next to the train tracks. These are used very sparingly today and are mostly not even electrified and one-tracked. Many wildlife refuges are on the way to move for the sake of the new tunnel.
The toys are one dimension of perceived and artificially created desires for the hoi polloi.
Please take into account that most of us humans are bound by various obligations. Be it the financial type, i.e. paying off your house for 30+ years or, even more captivating, creating substitutes for natural needs. Compare with the fact that most of us live isolated, especially in these times, without real world communication beyond chats, mail, telephone and, well, Hacker News. The lack of face to face opportunities to speak and do nonverbal communication is one of the causes for rising psychological diseases, drug abuse and antisocial behaviours in the last decade.
Our post Neolithic Revolution society is based on the concept of the ruler and the ruled. Why? Because having power is also a desire which may be the most destructive one for humanity in general.
We may be living on a punishment planet or simulation.
We are supposed to perform and add value to the world.
Not become mystics and monks.
That's the Zeitgeist slave's mentality.
Doing unhinged introspection with the help of booze or other drugs is frowned upon as you you will realise that are not living for others but yourself on our shared pale blue dot in your personal short glimpse of experienced history and reality.
You are right.
I experienced the same cult-like fanatic adoration of the process with rather detrimental results for the company's IT department similar to the times of "agile will solve everything and heal cancer" which bit us like a holy hand grenade.
Maybe we computer people are, like anybody else, also in need of a Shepard and a holy book?
Bakery is learned as apprenticeship in my home, i.e. 50% school with other young bakers and the other half in the bakery which took you in. This is a very classical education type for trades called "Ausbildung". It takes 3 years and afterwards you can work or become a master/"Meister" which takes two more years. A Meister extends his knowledge and some years ago it was mandatory by law to have finished your Meister to open your own business.
Personally this is a very good way to learn professional crafts and you even get payed for it - even when in school.
The job market is not so nice as there are mainly bakery chains which don't even hire bakers by education primarily due to higher labor costs.
However, there are some bakers who create their own small shops where they do everything by hand in contrast to the prefabricated and highly optimized bakery chains.
The small shops make traditional bread, and you can taste it. Your stomach and digestive system will probably like it, too.
Yes, it is a good career if you dare and risk opening your own store. You will attract people by the quality of your product who will, in exchange, not only become loyal customers but being the supplier for bread in Germany is a highly valued profession - an institution.
Good people get help by other good people. This is basic human law. I feel having a platonic relationship with the baker I know and he never has IT problems for long. :)