July 2 at 9:19 pm
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Employees have to choose relocation or severance. - Ginger Makela
Any reason given? - Raoul Pop
Jeez, you got out just in time! - Mark Trapp
Consolidation. Someone decided the ROI wasn't there. Bummer. - Ginger Makela
Ginger leaves, they figured why keep them open. :-) - Hutch Carpenter
yeah, i was bummed. I love the folks in the denver office including ginger - D 'gadget' Domingo
lordy... move or leave... ouch. - edythe
Capitalism-it takes no prisoners... - Mark Forman
Still, those are better options than what one would get at most other companies. - Tsega Dinka
(FYI - I think the link is broken) - Jennie Lin
Never heard of any Dallas office, but isn't Denver just a tiny handful of people sitting half an hour's drive from the much much bigger Boulder and Thornton offices? I mean, closing that sounds more like a standard office move than a relocation... - ƃuɐʞ
Are you sad you didn't hang around for the severance or happy you don't have to go through an office closing? - Clare Dibble
Or is there a distinction between the Denver and Boulder office? - Clare Dibble
Why not telecommute? - Gabe
Dang. I applied for a job in the Dallas data center earlier this year. Never heard a word. I guess I know why now. - ha3rvey
ƃuɐʞ, right. It is a handful of people. But they're pulling sales positions entirely out of CO and Dallas, so people only have the option of moving to Chicago, NY or SF, where there are ad sales jobs. Not catastrophizing here. It's just curious to me that the company spends so much money building amazing offices, then mere months later, decides to shut them down. Clare, I'm happy with my timing :-) - Ginger Makela
Clare, yeah, Boulder is a separate office. It's folks from the Sketch-Up acquisition and I think other mapping projects. - Ginger Makela
These were strictly sales offices, right? No eng? - ⓞnor
No eng. - Ginger Makela
Oh, I see... eek. Glad you got out, Ginger. :( - ƃuɐʞ
Can I have the Wii from the office? - Tödd Nëmët
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so there is no sacred cow in Google either... our modern corp slang for downsizing is "open sourcing" - wonder how they will translate it on sales/marketing ppl, since all previous head-slashing was majorly in engineering :) - silpol