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    Image of manchops manchops
    12/16/09

    In reply to Do Not Look to CAA for Validation
    You hit it on the head about the walking thing. I'd actually go so far as to argue that it's only in New York where it doesn't even occur to you not to walk miles from place to place (which I do) and in any other town should I need to two blocks, I promptly jump in the car and go two blocks.
    Sigh.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/16/09

    @manchops: I was in San Jose, at a hotel. I needed to go to a convenience store for something, and I asked the desk clerk where one was. He took out a photocopied map of the general vicinity and, with a highlighter, plotted out the way. I was confused. It was a circuitous auto route (here's a map so you can see yourself) but the convenience store was literally -- I'm not embellishing this at all -- merely two small parking lots away (one of the lots was for Creative Labs, if you're interested). He said that no one ever thought to walk there because of the expressway (an easily crossable six-lane highway with traffic lights). I'm not joking, I repeat, this is not some fish-out-of-water story. What is wrong with these people?
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    Image of TheClap TheClap
    12/17/09

    @i'm a bottle: Dude, dont knock it till you try it. Driving everywhere is awesome. Also, fat.

    Good thing we all drive the Prius.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12/16/09

    In reply to Do Not Look to CAA for Validation
    This is hilarious. HILARIOUS! It makes my damn day. By the way, I worked down the street from what's now their building for years, and parking at the Century City Mall for meetings at any number of different CCity offices is a time-honored tradition. The idea of CAA doing this to its clients is particularly sweet, though.
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    Image of ArleenCabango ArleenCabango
    12/18/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: yes but probably not ALL clients and visitors.
    the A-Lists, studio head types etc probably still get their free valet.
    it's the lesser folks that has to pay up themselves.
    and as for the PA comment someone made, I doubt they are valet'd. they probably put on the flasher and run into a reception and are out in 60 seconds. having been to the building there's a huge driveway,there might even be space created just for those folks (although there's not much left to deliver since so much is email anyway)
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12/18/09

    @ArleenCabango: A lot of office buildings in C City have a side lot for delivery parking; it would be surprising if this one didn't. I gleefully left The Industry before construction was completed on that building (I was around just long enough to have it regularly mess up my commute for months), so I've never been in it, but I'm mildly curious about it, since I spent a fair amount of time contemplating it in its unfinished state.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    Google is The Devil.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    Hey, Google isn't alone here. Conde Nast eliminated the free Orangina.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    I realize that this may come across as harping, but...

    Google has invested in Wojcicki's company at the behest of a founder. Google is not subject to the marriage contract and because 23andMe is still in the startup phase, it hasn't produced any value for Google's shareholders. Any future investments would be subject to the whim of Sergey;

    So, what does NOW think of this power dynamic?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    I just like it when they stop using the cattle prod.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity.

    ... until they don't
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    10/07/09

    In reply to Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
    doesn't every company started by some fruit-booted shitass in a garage that makes it big go through the same tired cycle of plucky-futurist-luxuriating in cash-cutthroat-obsolete- bankrupt? isn't that observation also cliched? where am i? why don't i have any pants? can i borrow change for the bus?
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    10/07/09

    @shostakobitch: You may have a token for the bus, as there's no telling what you'd spend the change on.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    10/07/09

    @valet_of_the_dolls: the hell with you i'll sell the token to get the mongoose malt liquor i crave.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    10/08/09

    @shostakobitch: Hearted for that comment.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    09/16/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    To think they could have avoided the bad press by instead trumpeting their commitment to Green by transitioning these comp'd subs to the online version, which has a marginal cost of 0.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    09/16/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    Uh...poverty sucks?
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    09/15/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    Yet they're still mailing dozens of extra copies to ad agency reps who never open its protective wrapper, let alone read the damn thing.

    Except me, of course.
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    Image of litagent litagent
    09/15/09

    @britneyspearstears: You get a protective wrapper? I haven't seen a wrapper since the 80's. I just get the magazine with the mailing label stuck on the cover. I want protection!
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    09/15/09

    @litagent: Buy some ad space, words-man.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/15/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    I prefer fully-shaved perks.
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    Image of once once
    09/15/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    I get a professional subscription for $25 per year. How can they not afford this for their old timers?
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    once was starred once was unstarred
    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    09/15/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    It was not that their subscriptions were canceled; it's that the magazine is no longer being published. They just haven't yet announced it publicly.
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    once promoted this comment SultanaEleusis was starred SultanaEleusis was unstarred
    Image of once once
    09/15/09

    @SultanaEleusis: Then how come I received the September 21st issue today?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/15/09

    In reply to At Conde Nast, Every Perk Must Go
    Sounds like they are going to save 25% by getting rid of the dead tree editions.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    09/15/09

    @miss_msry: Chuck T. would say, "You mean the dead wood."
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