What a stingy move! They shut down boxes completely in side-offices around the country a year ago, and now I can take only 1 to-go box at lunch in HQ? Seriously? W.T.F. PS. I’m so happy FB doesn’t have a limit for take-home boxed or for the number of visitors.
OP is broke. Please show them some sympathy!
Some employees were probably complaining that they were waiting in line too long for food because of visitors.
I imagine limiting the number of to-go boxes doesn’t correlate directly with the number of visitors. They’re likely trying to prevent employees taking food home to save a few bucks on them.
Possible, or maybe too many people have been taking food home to their families leaving other employees with less food at the end?
You still can have the second box just need to stay in line one more time. After this change the line size significantly decreased. Fully support this move.
Maybe it’s like the soda/sugar tax cities are starting to assess. Gluttony should no longer be normalized, and neither should obesity. Maybe Google is doing the same thing. They realize they’ve been fattening y’all up like livestock.
No lines at cisco
I've seen TVCs spend 5minutes in the queue getting their three boxes of food ready. And many times I've seen them take half of all fruits that are there. I'm glad it's reduced to 1 per person. Also it's not a hard and fast rule. I'm a muscular 210lb guy and they always let me get 2 boxes.
There’s something I don’t get about such way of thinking. Google tripled the numbed of TVCs in the recent years to save on FTEs. It also reduced food expenses by cutting boxes, food trucks, etc. and yet, we still blame each other and support shitty moves by Google, instead of demanding to keep up the food supply according to the increased number of employees. Hell, it’s Google who is cheap, not us!
I see your point. I too am upset by the degrade in food quality here. but it's kinda orthogonal I feel. From my perspective, I like this new rule because the wait times are reduced. There's nothing more annoying than missing your 6.55 shuttle because a group of 3-4 TVCs took 10 minutes to nicely prepare all their boxes even though you were the 10th person in the queue.
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just curious, how many were u taking before? 1 to-go box sounds like a reasonable number per person on top of eating there at lunch. its probably to prevent people from abusing the system
Why should there be a limit at all? People can’t eat infinitely anyway. What if today I don’t need a box, but tomorrow I’d like to get 2?
Oh really? I have seen people at Facebook take like 3-4 boxes to feed their family. Isn't that abuse?