[yanw]

Labor camps?! the fuck! they are being paid regular salary.

The author doesn't quite understand the concept of social injustice (nor do you) and so he tries to apply it on patterns he'd found with disastrous consequences.

He thinks that if you're gonna give your employees Google type perks you have to give these to everyone who steps inside the plex?! security personnel and cleaning ladies?! contract workers?! that doesn't make sense. Google engineers get these perks to be happy and make cool stuff, manual workers get a paycheck! that how the world works, that is why people go to college.

Giving everyone these perks would hugely increase operation costs.

This whole post and the attention it’s getting don't make any sense.

News flash: not all employees get paid the same and not everyone is the CEO.

[dkokelley]

I'm 90% sure the parent was being ironic. I agree with your points, but I think your response might be out of sync with the tone of the parent.

[opello]

But do you realize that the security personnel, cleaning ladies, and contract workers [your classes of employees] do get the perks? Just the special contractors with their golden badges don't.

[johnrob]

Google profited over 8.5 billion in Q1. There's no way food could be a relevant operating cost for them.

[benmccann]

It absolutely does have an affect on the bottom line. How much do you think it costs to feed an employee for a year? On top of the gourmet cafes, don't forget that an employee is never 50 from food throughout the day. Now multiply by the 25,000 employees. You'll get a number that is very big even for a company of Google's size.

[jcampbell1]

Google's profit was 2.8 billion on 8.5 billion in revenue.

[haberman]

You don't profit 8.5 billion dollars by spending money every time a self-important internet critic thinks you ought to.

[jrockway]

Interestingly, if you say this in a "oh noes, my spam ads got pulled from Google and they won't talk to me on the phone!" thread, you get downmodded to oblivion.

[noway444]

fact: feeding 26,316 employees every day has zero effect on the bottom line.

[yanw]

You're missing the point. Google has this manual monotonous task of scanning millions of books, so they choose the company that offers the most cost effective workforce, paychecks and launch breaks are taken care of by the contractor Google hires as they don't pay those workers directly.