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- welk, on 05/09/2008, -1/+43The person who wrote that has never seen a bad place to work.
- Terr01, on 05/09/2008, -0/+27I don't quite trust this article.
For instance, one of the Microsoft "headquarters" photos is actually the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle.
http://valleywag.com/photogallery/Microsoftheadqua ... - dangsta, on 05/09/2008, -2/+26those offices don't even look that bad.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+21adobe's headquarters dont really look like a place of business, its like a four seasons hotel
- olenick, on 05/10/2008, -0/+20The worst I ever saw was when I worked for some guys in the late 90's that wanted to show off their servers and put them in a glass room. The room was so hot that the guy who worked in there ended up completely covered in sweat and eventually just walked around in nothing but shorts and sandals. So in this corporate environment there was a guy walking around in this glass room that looked like Tarzan in a zoo exhibit. They finally fixed it, adding industrial air-conditioning, but then it was exactly the opposite and he had to walk around in a jacket and gloves with the fingertips cut off so he could fiddle with the machinery. We all felt bad for him.
- johndajap56, on 05/09/2008, -0/+16i'd say those are some of best, like microsoft and adobe look like sick places to work
- chompapotamus, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14dugg, but why is this website so labor-intensive to view the images!!!
- MikeonTV, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12Cause Valleywag is totally known for having amazing offices!
- kylere, on 05/09/2008, -1/+12You think he works? No way he could hold a job and spend that much time on digg.
- simonbp, on 05/10/2008, -0/+9Is this article a joke? All of those places look better than any office that I've worked in.
- stevesearer, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9Don't forget to go to http://www.officesnapshots.com :)
- coheedcollapse, on 05/09/2008, -1/+9I don't mind the article, but most of those places don't seem bad at all. Yahoo just seems like they have cubicles that they're allowed to do whatever the hell they want with, and as we all know, no matter how "outside of the box" Google's workplace might be, it's still ridiculously awesome.
The only one that looked anywhere near painful really was Mozilla. They had their computers set up on folding tables. - SniperGX1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8It's not new that MS employees use Apple notebook hardware with vista running on them.
- DrakeRangoon, on 05/09/2008, -2/+9I'd rather live and work in an Alaskan pine forest, frankly. In the summer I would go fishing for delicious fresh salmon in crystal-clear rivers, or perhaps saunter through a sunny meadow and find some delightful berries to munch. I would roam free among the tall trees, occasionally finding a rare treasure of sweet honey, and I would observe and join the grand dance of nature uninhibited.
I would scale mountainsides, and when the skies darkened in late autumn and began to coat the wilderness in snow, I would just find a cozy, warm cave and slip into a deep, eternally relaxing sleep until spring!
tl;dr: ***** offices, I wish I was a bear. - cyberwiz01, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7And sadly, my cube is still drearier than all of these.
- SitPoMk, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7"h-h-h-e t-t-took my s-stapler"
- buymagicfish, on 05/10/2008, -0/+71) They aren't bad, except maybe Mozilla
2) Holy Crap! I know the guy in the ball pit at google. - Baronvontito1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6I've always thought Google's offices looked more like a theme park than a workplace; along with Pixar's offices.
- darny, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6Don't be down on the adobe building, it's actually a USGBC (platinum) certfied green building.
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressrel ... - Shenaniganz08, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6buried as inaccurate
- DreKor, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5None of those workspaces involve a cash register or a deep fryer, they can't be that bad.
- ThatGeek, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4ok, that website is horrible
- piratearggghhh, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4Microsoft develops software for the Mac.
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5I thought Adobe was stunning, and Yahoo... well let's say Yahoo's offices look as retarded as their website and average user.
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4"We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements."
-Peter Gibbons - RandyGandy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Our workspace in a call center is far worse than any of these, we like to call it sardine city
- KonstantinLevin, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4actually: http://www.nickmcglynn.com/randomnightout/photos/a ...
- secrity, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Having two programmers working on a single computer sounds like *****.
- alpha88, on 05/09/2008, -3/+6lol @ some of microsoft's employees using macs
- popolop, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Initech?
- DreKor, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Penetrode?
- DreKor, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Seriously. I know I'd be pissed if my company forced me into an office complex with adequate meeting space, a color scheme that didn't end in beige, floor to ceiling windows, and a basketball court. As it is, that window down the hall is distracting enough.
- passedoutghost, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Think of a basement underneath his mother's place. Dingy, poorly lit with dull gray cement walls all surrounding a single table with a monitor atop of it.
- alperea, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3Call centers can get pretty bad. I used to work with ones with toy airplanes hanging from the cieling, baloons everwhere (used for achievemnets), and stuffed animals, etc. It can get pretty annoying.
- joltcola, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2http://valleywag.com/photogallery/MozillaToronto/1 ...
is that guy looking at digg during the meeting? - kushin, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2it does suck ass. how about using some of the highslide.js on those galleries btches
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -2/+4Those offices are just fine.
- seiha, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2high moon studios is probably one of the best places i've seen to work.
http://www.highmoonstudios.com/company/studio_tour ... - Terr01, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Damn, Digg! You still haven't fixed that bug?
http://valleywag.com/photogallery/Microsoftheadqua ... - jajah, on 05/09/2008, -3/+5Ha, thanks for the mention, I'm just glad that there are no cubicles at JAJAH and I don't mind Jajah Watamba's omnipresence. Great article and we just painted some more walls purple after we inked the deal with Yahoo ;-) Have a great weekend you guys, Frederik
- reddikilowatt, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2You're a lumberjack,
and you're OK.
You sleep all night, and you work all day. - inactive, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3Is it just me, or are like 99% of the employees in these shots white people?
- SugarGuitar, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3I imagine it looks something like this
http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/22627/20061337644 ... - DreKor, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Don't servers sort of need A/C to live?
- diothar, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2You know, my office is better than most of the offices there, but I really just don't see those as bad places to work. I've had some pretty bad jobs and I know a lot of people worse off with their desk situations.
- AROZ, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Having zoomed in I can say no, he isn't unfortunately. There's a red circular logo on the left hand side of the blue column, which doesn't resemble digg.
- hexydes, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Come on, it was the late 90s. What did the servers consist of? Two Pentium-IIIs, 64MB of memory and a 10GB hard drive?
If it gets too hot, just blow on it. - passedoutghost, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2You should have seen my workplace. Absolute *****. My boss was a ***** too. Glad I got out.
- DreKor, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2I dunno, pair programming is a legitimate style. It just takes a certain mindset and some getting used to.
- alpha88, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2The one Mac visible is quite clearly running Safari on Mac OS X Tiger.
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