What's that smell?

Just as another day rolled by and no significant piece of anti-google-baloney was caught on my radars, Owen Thomas managed to outperform himself in writing garbage about Google, again...

Thomas wrote a post titled "Google's austerity campaign" (and I'm certainly NOT linking...) trying desperately to convince his readers that Google prety much sucks as an employer... All this started when The Wall Street Journal took a look at Google's attempt for cost cuts.



Its a long, boring post and some of his main points seem to be:

• ...Google is curtailing service at its cafeterias, reducing hours and restricting guests..

Wow! So, during the worst financial crisis of the past 80 years, "curtailing service at cafeterias" is... an employee's nightmare... RIGHT... and I thought MY working conditions were hellish...

• Google's employees no longer have free rein to pursue their own ideas. Google's engineers can spend 20 percent of time on side projects. That freedom remains, in theory, but the progress a lone engineer can make on a new website without hardware and additional personnel is limited...

So, your usual everyday-type-of-phd-engineer will NOT be content (again, during the shit the world is currently into...) with working on one of the planet's most technologically advanced company. This "lone" engineer (...) will experience hell-on-earth, because of "limited additional personnel"...

• Why should Google's founders care, really? They seem increasingly detached from Google's core business, preferring to spend time on rockets and electric sports cars rather than optimizing AdWords...

Spot-on on this one Owen... Its EXACTLY their CONTINUOUS FOCUS that's reflected on the AdWords success story, and that's why eggheads lose money when they put their money where their mouths are...

• They increasingly deal with a small core of early Google employees...

Realy? They DON'T talk to all 20.000 - 30.000 of them? Sounds like hell for these poor souls... (were you neglected as a child man?)

• The people hit hardest by this will be Google's flacks — and the servile journalists who so eagerly celebrated Google's lava-lamp culture. What stories will they tell now? How Google is cutting corners on the organic foie-gras hamburgers in its cafes?

No Owen... Google is cutting corners on foi-gras hamburgers ONLY for moochers like yourself... That is, freeloaders with no actual work there...


Finally, the post ends with a line that is just bread & butter for this blog..

• The billions gushing in from Google's search monopoly don't make for a good story....

Yeap... Pageviews are pageviews, billions are billions and Clowns write what they are told!

(and I bet it won't be long before this clown meets his new boss...)