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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hjg3b0$elr$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> You know, even though I'm one of the resident Google-haters here, I have 
>> to admit, I saw a thing on TV about Google's company cafeteria, and - 
>> OMG, I'm jealous of it!
>
> I've eaten at the Google cafeteria. It's very nice, and would be a 
> compelling perq to work there.
>

Speaking of good corporate cafeterias, I had an internship a number of years 
ago at Progressive Insurance, and say what you will about insurance (I know 
I sure do ;) ), but I loved that cafeteria. But then again, from what I've 
seen of Google's cafeteria, that Google one even puts Progressive's to 
shame.

And having worked both there and at places that had no cafeteria (not even a 
third-party one nearby) I feel fairly strongly that the benefits of having 
something that reliable for lunches, instead of, on a daily basis, having to 
worry about "where/when I am going to be able to grab something?" or 
spending the time to prepare one's own lunches cannot be over-emphasized. 
(But then again, I can be a bit of a worry-wart anyway ;) )

> BTW, while I understand your concern about corporations inevitably growing 
> in size until they rule the world,

Well, I can't speak for other people, but that's not quite the [ethical] 
problem I have with large corporations. In fact, it's not so much "large 
corporations" per se that I take issue with as it is "publically-traded 
corporations". I just find that the whole idea of businesses being literally 
owned by people whose sole interest in the company is purely financal (not 
to mention laws that essentially mandate that the corporation hold 
shareholder financial interests above all other concerns) to be a recipe for 
social irresponsibility. (Not that I'm socialist or communist or anything 
like that though, I haven't studied or been around such systems enough to 
form any coherent opinion on them.)

> the historical experience is otherwise. Once they reach a certain size, 
> they tend to collapse from inefficiency and bureaucratic ossification.
>
> For example, GM! I could list dozens of others.

Well, yea, that is another problem with big corporations.

By the way, did you spell that right? That wasn't supposed to be 
"bureaucratic assification"? ;)