Tech office shuts down its free cocktail bar for employees, CEO says “The office is dead” — An experiment in 2020s, incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occ…::An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.
Imagine thinking I’d like to travel to work 2-3 hours a day for a fucking cocktail.
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Which you can probably afford to do with the money you save working from here me.
I mean depending on if there was a drink limit or it’s just open bar I’d head in for Friday’s at least for unlimited drinks, but don’t expect too much out of me after lunch
Tech workers are well paid, they can afford their own cocktails.
So people would get champagne after drinking cocktails all day and then hop into their car and drive home? Is it the 50s again or something?
It’s SF, most of them probably take public transportation or Uber
This was a cool this 20 years ago. The OGs don’t care anymore because we want to spend our free time doing other things, not spending extra time at the office. Your booze and foos tables aren’t the draw you think they are.
Speak for yourself. Lol I would partake in this activity but (maybe you’re half right) on a hybrid basis.
It’s so insane to think of this being an office perk. Just there for you to use… My office has a kitchen…
This is one of the more baller ones for sure.
I work for a rapidly growing startup in a different industry and the most we have currently is a beer vending machine at one site that was inherited and P-Cards with the biggest limits I’ve ever seen. The only requirement with those is, “please don’t screw me.”
What are P-Cards?
They are company “Purchase” cards. They are often used for purchases for the office like supplies or other one off perks (i.e. food). In some companies they are separate from travel cards which can only be used for travel.
Company credit cards
And I’ve got an ice maker and a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label. Who needs the expense and time of a commute when their perk is right downstairs for me?
No more looking for that Balmer Peak!
Ok, can you remind me why people should work from the office? At this point a company requesting I work from the office is just a huge red flag
b b because of the cocktail bar!
This one is a bit frivolous, but generally all of these things share a common tone, “We’re performatively punishing labor to send a message. We know Amazon/Starbucks unionized and the auto workers/writers/actors/health care workers went on strike, but you need to shut up and do more work until I no longer feel threatened like you might do the same”
Again, this is a more frivolous example, but tech workers need to unionize. The only downside I can identify about remote work is that the company owns the “town square” or “lunch room” - don’t really have opportunities for the kind of quiet conversations where these things typically build momentum when they are indexing and have keyword alerts on your “private messages” with colleagues.
I miss the unofficial office pinball tournaments. The CEO, a guy from QA, a sr. support person, and I traded high scores on Deadpool pinball for the better part of a year.
Went into my office on Friday to pick up a shipment, middle of the day, there were 5 people there. Everyone else working from home.
Doesn’t mean much if we don’t know how many employees work for your company…
Office has about 170 employees.
“An experiment in 2020s”
???
Motherfucker we are three years into the 2020’s.
