• Nato Boram@lemm.ee
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      Anyone who pays that has fuck-you money, they work at Google.

      That said, “transition to the hybrid workplace” is something I wouldn’t do.

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      You’d be paying at least two-and-a-half times as much for a regular hotel around there, and it wouldn’t be a very nice hotel.

      Edit: apparently I’m wrong.

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        and it wouldn’t be a very nice hotel.

        I worked at Apple while living 45 miles away about 10y ago. I got into a habit of staying in hotels like the Hilton when I had to pull long hours. The cost was less then than it is now. Even now, a quick search on Google Maps show these hotels to be in the $200 range or less. Probably cheaper on weeknights. It’s not one-for-one analogous to Mountain View, but it’s the same general area.

        I’d rather double the cost and have my own space away from my employer if I had to crash nearby because it didn’t make sense to do a long drive. I especially would rather double the cost than give back part of my paycheck to my employer. That’s just insane mechanics, imo.

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          I wonder if hotels have gotten cheaper in the seven years since I’ve had to travel there for business or if somehow I wasn’t finding these.

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          I’m surprised. I used to travel there for work about seven years ago and the cheapest I could get then was about $250 a night. But now that I check, the hotels really are cheaper than they used to be. I wonder if that has to do with covid-related changes to where people work.