[tmoertel]

> As a shareholder, I'm curious why others aren't more furious to hear that this is how things are run at Google.

Probably because most people understand that horror stories reported on the web are likely to be outliers and not representative of the typical experience, or of a massive company as a whole.

It takes motivation to write a horror story. If you worked at a company that you expected to be a good place to work, and it turned out that it was a good place to work, what's your motivation to write about it? And if you do write about it, what's the motivation for someone to submit your non-horror story to a site like Hacker News, or of a reader to upvote it?

So the distribution of stories you'll see on the web and HN is going to be biased toward horror stories and other extremes.