[mrev19]

Reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie back in the 80's, the kid who can wish anything he wants and it comes true, and he wishes all these strangers to be his "family" and traps them in the house with them.

I'd love to hear about one of these emails reading "Hi employee, person who is totally dependent on my whim and fancy for sustinence and shelter, I've been thinking a lot about what me and my 2 friends stand for, and even though I'm not totally sure, and can't necessarily articulate it, its extremely important to me, and from now on its pretty damn important that you start standing for it too. You are an extension of me. That's why your office looks like my old apartment. Your identity has been subsumed, and to prove it I'd like to point out that your livelihood is now in a great part dependent on your allegiance to my completely undefined and arbitrary value system. So we're in this together. I am writing you to tell you everything will be fine, as long you don't. fuck. this. up. Thanks! I'll be back in touch with more specifics, or not, in the meantime just act natural."

[AVTizzle]

I thought Chesky's letter was great on first reading, but I can't shake this satire from mind now. Cynical, but accurate. Well done.

[jusben1369]

I feel like you missed the context. My understanding was "We're about to spend time discussing our culture (Core Values) at our next all hands/meeting. Let me just give you some brief background on why we as a company are doing this exercise." I don't think the goal of this note was to go into detail. That would be overkill and steal thunder from the upcoming event. It was just to contextualize why they're going to cover it a) Number 1 reason investors put huge gobs on money into AirBNB b) It's what we'll be most remembered for etc.

[mrev19]

No.

[a-l-c-o]

Same feeling. What a nausea.

Once I moonlighted webdev for a young thugish team of car dealers and the boss would pay me according to my advancing on the "project". But the "project" was never clearly defined.

I see it as a way to assert dominance in a soft but disgusting way. If key-words like "project" or "culture" were precisely defined one would have ground to assess his condition : payment on the project, respect of the culture (like work conditions).

The boss presents himself not as a master but a minister : "Project" is a devine word that he is to interpret. We're a community. I'm just our pastor. And a cool one.