About a decade ago, I attended a workshop at an Intel location in Mass. There were about 50 outside people. We were in a rather nice room across from a break room which provided coffee and sodas.
Just as we were about to start, someone showed up and informed us all that the break room was for the exclusive use of Intel Employees, and outside visitors were not permitted to use it. And then they left. The Intel hosts rolled their eyes and set up a system whereby we could ask an Intel employee to get us whatever we wanted from the break room. The workshop was pretty good anyway...
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Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?
Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > I visited Portland and Santa Clara and I have never
> > seen a more grey cubicle farm in my life.
>
> I don't remember which comic it was, but about 8-10 years ago one the late
> night comedy guys brought a film crew to SC and made that same exact
> observation.
It was Conan O'Brien. You can find it on YouTube.
> While Intel does do many things well, this one is part of company culture
> and I'm not in a position to change it. I wish I could.
It's a huge blind spot for Intel. They tout it as "everyone is equal"
but they miss that noone who needs peace and quiet to work can work
productively.
> I think the place
> would be a small bit happier if it did not take itself quite so seriously,
> but that's just my personal opinion.
Yes, as a fellow Intel employee, I'd have to agree.
Sigh.
Arnold