Another ugly aspect of the Zynga story is the use of “Google chef situation” as a metaphor for an employee getting too much stock. That refers specifically to Charlie Ayers, Google’s chef 1999–2006, who reportedly made a giant pile of money from his stock options. To anyone who suggests he doesn’t deserve that compensation: fuck off. Charlie worked incredibly hard at Google and did a great job growing a kitchen from one meal a day for 40 people to three squares for 10,000 people. That kitchen had a huge impact on the success of the company; Google got an extra 200 hours’ work a year out of employees because we wanted to eat at work rather than go out. Charlie personally was responsible for the kitchen’s success. I assume “chef situation” is some sort of class distinction, that chefs don’t deserve as much compensation as the hallowed engineers. That’s disgusting.

Nelson Minar on one of the many scummy aspects of Zynga’s attempt to force some workers to sell their stock back.

If it were possible for a company to be a douchebag, Zynga is almost certainly it.

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Source: somebits.com

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  2. bananacasts said: I am shocked SHOCKED that a company that profits from doing much the same way as cigarette companies do would be such fuckbags to their employees. Fuck those fucking fucks.
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