{"id":117,"date":"2008-12-24T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.177.175.1.xip.io\/2008\/12\/24\/googlers-bonus-is-a-mobile-phone\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T01:32:00","slug":"googlers-bonus-is-a-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3.10.118.248\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Googlers' bonus is a mobile phone?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I was little busy with real world issues and cannot blog for some time now, to add insult to the injury, My hosting company made a terrible mistake and misplaced my domain renewal agreement and as a result the site was offline for more than 5 days!!<\/p>\n

I am some pro!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ok back to the matter at hand, I was mindlessly going thru the cnet RSS feed(or was it atom??) and came across this piece An end to the Google bonus fairytale?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gosh, I’ve known friends in google India make more than $5000 in annual bonus, now people working in BAy area to get a mobile phone for Bonus…<\/p>\n

That will be some day, huh…This surely is an economic meltdown…<\/p>\n

The article follows.<\/p>\n

For Googlers eagerly awaiting their famous holiday bonuses, be warned: Santa is tightening his belt too.<\/p>\n

Google employees, some of whom have reportedly grown used to fairytale-like cash bonuses on the north side of $20,000, apparently got coal in their stockings this year. Certainly that’s the takeaway for gossip blog Valleywag, which in a headline likened this year’s bonus to “dogfood”–a euphemism for in-house testing–because Google would like some feedback.<\/p>\n

So how bad was it? Well, Google gave its employees a smartphone. Yep, can you believe it? Man, if I had a nickel for all the years my bosses gave me a smartphone…<\/p>\n

But I digress. Back to Google’s gift. Apparently, Valleywag took issue with Google giving its employees an Android–its own phone! Well, actually, the memo that Valleywag reprinted referred to it as a “Dream phone.” It’s basically the T-Mobile G1 that retails for $179.99, but it’s been customized to “work anywhere in the world” on the carrier of their choice. (Google estimates its value at $400.)<\/p>\n

The nerve!<\/p>\n

Here, in the real world, while many in the tech industry have received pink slips, Google employees are receiving a gift–oh, yeah, it is a gift–that many people would love to find under their trees. What a bummer, man. As far as the dogfooding goes, I am guessing that this company that has a reputation for being astoundingly generous when economic realities were more positive isn’t going to can employees for not sending back the questionnaire.<\/p>\n

Now, back to the topic of Santa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I was little busy with real world issues and cannot blog for some time now, to add insult to the injury, My hosting company made a terrible mistake and misplaced my domain renewal agreement and as a result the site was offline for more than 5 days!! I am some pro! Ok back to … <\/p>\n

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