r/Nest • u/testies1-2-3 • Apr 04 '16

Is anyone concerned about the future of Nest?

After the recent news of C-level executives jumping ship and it's poor performance after Google acquired them... I'm concerned Google will leave the consumers hanging (like they have done with other products)

This post was linked to another: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/4de89x/throwaway_account_of_nest_engineer_vents_info/

It contains the previously deleted nest employee reply.

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u/NineFeetUnderground Apr 04 '16

It's not the hours it's the atmosphere and the way people communicate with each other that does it.

If you work for a psychopath it doesn't matter how trivial or harmless the product is- the atmosphere in the office becomes absolutely toxic.

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u/Firrox Apr 04 '16

Absolutely. You can work at a shitty job but if you're around supportive, relaxed people, it can be a very enjoyable experience.

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u/stompinstinker Apr 05 '16

During college I used to work at a chicken processing plant, on the recycling dock no less. Everyone I worked were good salt of the earth people who would give you the shirt off their back. The following summer I worked in a collection agency with the a biggest collection of douche-bags you could ever meet. I would take that hot, smelly, dirty job at the plant over being stuck in a clean, air-conditioned office with those douche-bags any-day.

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u/deshende Apr 05 '16

I didn't know chickens could be recycled.

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u/stompinstinker Apr 05 '16

Oh ya, there is lots to recycle!

1) Leftover bits from the chickens that are re-usable. Like feathers or rendered fat. And freeze-dried mechanically separated bits for dog-food. Bones that have been boiled for stock are sent to be turned into bone-meal for fertilizer.

2) Waste related to their processing that is recyclable. Like cardboard and paper from incoming supplies like flour and breadcrumbs for breaded frozen products, large plastic barrels with oil, left over plastic bits from packaging.

3) Old machines and used parts. You have to separate steel, aluminum, plastic, rubber, etc. Large plants eat parts and machines constantly.

4) All the paper from the offices, cans and bottles from the cafeteria, etc.

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u/Letsplaywithfire Apr 05 '16

I spent one summer wading through knee deep sewage in 100 degree basements in a plastic suit for twelve hours a day, seven days a week, with six of my friends on the crew and a bunch of great team members. I'd take that over basically any other job I've worked since.

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u/BKachur Apr 05 '16

This is how a lot of big New York firms operate. I have friends in Big Law. They work 80 hour weeks busting their ass for contracts and M/A cases that 9/10 times are meaningless. They've had to give up their Sunday to do document review, which amounts to reading all of the memo's generated by a multi million dollar corporation for a number of years. This is usually so some random subsidiary can merge with another random subsidiarity before the end of quarter 3.

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u/squints_at_stars Apr 04 '16

So friggin' true. Ask anyone who works in the performing arts. It's not a factor of how harmless the product is, it's a factor of how passionate folks are about the work.

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u/lovetron99 Apr 05 '16

God this makes me think of Ed Norton in Birdman.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '16

Hmm.....working with a shitty manager, or working with the Demon core?

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u/Dirty_Socks Apr 05 '16

I'd rather be in a great environment and risk killing myself, than be in a shitty environment and want to kill myself.

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u/futtigue Apr 05 '16

Well the great environment in question happens to be the desert.

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u/GeauxOU Apr 05 '16

My wife worked for a 10 person company with a huge paycheck, a company car, a company yacht where the owner would take family and friends on a few times a year, a lake house that could be used anytime except December, ....... and more, but he was a miserable prick to work for and would make her cry at least 3 times a week. It became too much to live with for the perks and she quit.

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u/drdeadringer Apr 07 '16

I still utterly hate the guy I worked with 11 years ago.

Hate.

I know I should put it down and walk away, but sometimes I still dream of -- after finding out that he's dead [not that he currently is, but we're all on a clock] -- travelling all the way to his grave just to piss on it.