Am I missing something?
This restriction was made, in exchange for letting the office be built.
They could have asked the Zuckerberg to do the chicken dance, for 10 minutes, in exchange for letting the office be built, if they wanted to.
IT also could be argued to be a forced breach of contract as custom and practice is …
Dining out truly can make a big impact on the wallet- $10 dollars per meal (unlikely in Mountain View unless fast food) x 5 meals a week x 48 weeks a year (let's be generous and assume you get that much PTO) = $2,400 annually
Company-provided meals also tend to provide healthy options which can be expensive to purchase outside of work- and tend to contain less sodium and sugar than restaurant foods.
I can see this potentially benefitting the local business of 'Amazon WholeFoods' and Costco as people buy more groceries to bring lunch to work with them and eat at their desks. Eating out every day is expensive.
This sounds like another of those special microcosm "problems".
I maybe do it one or two days a month and I am in the minority here.
I’ve been provided meals at work for the last 12 years and I will certainly factor that in to any salary calculus in the future. Given this only impacts new buildings, this puts future employers/business at a disadvantage.
As a Bay Area resident my priorities are the cost of housing, cleaning our dirty streets and alleviating traffic congestion.
This is an example of progressivism gone awry. Solving the basics is incredibly important. Our quality of life is in decline (in the bay area) and this is the best our politicians can do?
I'm enraged.
Exhibit A: https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...
Your perspective bores me.
- I stepped in dog shit
- F@kin' liberals
This doesn't have to do anything with progressivism, unless you just use it as umbrella term for everything you don't like.
The ban on "company cafeterias" cannot possibly work, they will be simply replaced by separated business entities that happen to share the same building and have a financial arrangement like the one described. Pretty soon you will go full retard trying to stop this.
Edit: looks like it's a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619658.
Still, companies should be able to decide what they want to offer their workers.
SAN FRANCISCANS: my studio costs $2700 and I stepped on human feces & 1 used syringe on my morning commute
CITY: we hear you, action must and will be taken. Scooters are now illegal
SF-ANS: what
CITY: no more delivery robots
SF-ANS: but
CITY: workplace cafeterias are forbidden
That said, I would still have no problem if it was the landlord (WeWork) making this restriction, instead of the MTV government. This is a private business-to-business matter, and shouldn't be the domain of government.
It's a free meal at the office, but if you want to go out they made deals with most of the local restaurants where it gives the employee $5 off
Edit: it sounds like this is actually a rider on some kind of zoning exception being made for a new development called the Village? Article isn’t terribly clear here
