Interesting story from a former Google employee detailing how the company used their vast free food program to drive down salaries during contract negotiations. The only problem is that program doesn’t exist in its original form anymore. Hey, at least they’re open.
I learned a powerful lesson here. If you allow them to placate you with some kind of luxury, don’t be too surprised when they take it away. They will conveniently forget that it was used as a bargaining tactic.
Or, worse, they’ll assign blame to “rogue contractors” and say it was never their policy to do that. Right.