The retards at Google built some expensively ugly building for who knows how many millions of dollars only to discover that wi-fi doesn’t work inside of it.
Google’s swanky new “Bay View” campus apparently has a major problem: bad Wi-Fi. Reuters reports that Google’s first self-designed office building has “been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter.” A Google spokesperson confirmed the problems and said the company is working on fixing them.
Bay View opened in May 2022. At launch, Google’s VP of Real Estate & Workplace Services, David Radcliffe, said the site “marks the first time we developed one of our own major campuses, and the process gave us the chance to rethink the very idea of an office.” The result is a wild tent-like structure with a striking roofline made up of swooping square sections. Of course, it’s all made of metal and glass, but the roof shape looks like squares of cloth held up by poles—each square section has high points on the four corners and sags down in the middle. The roof is covered in solar cells and collects rainwater while also letting in natural light, and Google calls it the “Gradient Canopy.”
Talk about making the simple complicated. Why did Google feel the need to build some bizarre structure like this? What was the purpose? To show how cool and trendy they are or something? They just made themselves look stupid.
The primary purpose of an office building is to provide a space for people to work, but even the idea of a corporate office space is totally outdated with the technology available. Most office and even programming work can be done remotely these days. There was no need for Google to build such an office space let alone an office space with all this fucked up architecture. The fact that the strange architecture has created problems with basic wi-fi connectivity makes it all the more hilarious.
They basically dumped insane amounts of money into building a dysfunctional office space. It sounds like their employees would be better off working out of coffee shops with public wi-fi.
