Not as bad as metamates. It’s amazing how much money is accumulated by people who are so far removed from basic human sensibilities. I don’t know if the money makes them detached or if their detachment is somehow a key to them making so much money.
Every tech company names their employees tbf and I think that’s a cool way to promote culture. “Employee” feels impersonal and un-team like, it has this conotation of Employer-employee relationship which we all try to delude ourselves is not real lol
Frankly, you won’t get fair treatment unless you treat it like an employer-employee relationship; It reminds me of workplaces that say ‘we’re family’. I have personally found those kinds of workplaces to be some of the most exploitative, because they want you to feel like you owe them something when you honestly don’t.
In my opinion, companies intentionally use tactics like this to abstract away from that fact.
That doesn’t make it any less cringy and manipulative.
a cool way to promote culture
It’s actually a manipulative way to try to make employees think “we’re all in this together” when in reality they’re treated as completely disposable the moment a dollar of extra profit is available.
“Employee” feels impersonal and un-team like
Which it SHOULD. Google isn’t a team. It’s a vehicle for turning labor and ads into corporate profits. Any company loyalty is as one-sided as that towards Donald Trump.
it has this conotation of Employer-employee relationship
Well, duh!
we all try to delude ourselves is not real lol
Speak for yourself. Some of us try to avoid delusions and manipulative business practices rather than celebrate them.
The fact that they call their employees “Googlers” is very strange and kinda makes me feel a little uncomfy.
I’m pretty sure it started off self-driven but it’s definitely more cult than culture now.
Reminds me of those super creepy Walmart chants they did (still do?) at the beginning of the shift.
Still not as weird as “Amazonians”.
You mean that the employees of Amazon AREN’T exclusively mythical warrior women from the South American rainforest?! 😱
Not as bad as metamates. It’s amazing how much money is accumulated by people who are so far removed from basic human sensibilities. I don’t know if the money makes them detached or if their detachment is somehow a key to them making so much money.
If someone called me that I slam them into the ground, consequences be damned.
Every tech company names their employees tbf and I think that’s a cool way to promote culture. “Employee” feels impersonal and un-team like, it has this conotation of Employer-employee relationship which we all try to delude ourselves is not real lol
Frankly, you won’t get fair treatment unless you treat it like an employer-employee relationship; It reminds me of workplaces that say ‘we’re family’. I have personally found those kinds of workplaces to be some of the most exploitative, because they want you to feel like you owe them something when you honestly don’t.
In my opinion, companies intentionally use tactics like this to abstract away from that fact.
Yeah I probably agree with you
Having worked in some of these tech companies with company names, I’ve got to disagree. It’s very cringy.
That doesn’t make it any less cringy and manipulative.
It’s actually a manipulative way to try to make employees think “we’re all in this together” when in reality they’re treated as completely disposable the moment a dollar of extra profit is available.
Which it SHOULD. Google isn’t a team. It’s a vehicle for turning labor and ads into corporate profits. Any company loyalty is as one-sided as that towards Donald Trump.
Well, duh!
Speak for yourself. Some of us try to avoid delusions and manipulative business practices rather than celebrate them.
Tech employee here. No, they don’t.