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Cubez takes a tour of Google's New York office.
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 9:56am
Welcome to "Cubez," The Big Money's intimate look at the spaces American companies call home. In this episode, we take a rare look inside the New York City offices of the internet mega-giant, Google. Originally constructed in 1932 for the New York Port Authority, the building is now filled with programmers and computers. But it's not your average tech company. The Google office sports a world-renowned cafe, ping-pong tables and rubber ball pits. And with the second largest footprint in Manhattan, "Googlers" can get around the massive building by scooter.
Cubez takes a tour of Google's New York office.
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Mad props to you, Big Money, for making me hate my job even more than I already do, something I previously considered impossible. I really appreciate the way that the piece highlights the many perks for Google's employees while I slave away at a job with no health care benefits, no sick leave, no retirement plan, no real benefits of any kind, really. Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to work with hipsters at a cool mega-corporation, but until then, thanks for parting the curtain so I can steal a glance at how the other .002 percent work. Good timing, too. I trust that the next episode of Cubez will follow AIG executives to their uber-posh resort retreats? You wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea, after all, by highlighting that work over here -- In the REAL WORLD -- is less a friendly game of midday ping pong than a cutthroat game of keeping our jobs through this craptastic recession.