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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3901899

If you don't work at Google, your wording is a suspiciously odd mistake, and a misrepresentation.




Yes, and where do I say there that I work at Google?


Holy shit, really? You're really not seeing this? Let's start at the parent[1] and paraphrase.

> OP: <joke about free time>

>> You: I'd rather they do something other than doodles with their time.

>>> Commenter: Oh, but the doodles solve real problems!

>>>> You: Google's doodles perpetuate the image that the CORPORATION I WORK AT is a fun place to be, helping to improve OUR image and attract the right recruits.

Whose image are the doodles improving other than Google's? What is the intended company for recruits that are tickled by a Google Doodle? You say the words "I work at" and "our" in your comment. I resent having to explain this word by word. I now see an alternative explanation, which would be that you're responding to "real problems" instead, but your timing is extraordinarily awkward if that is the case and makes no sense in context.

Obviously, I left that comment with the impression that you work for Google. It was only after I stared at it for fifteen minutes as a result of this discussion that I realized there could be an alternative meaning. You need to be more careful about how you word things.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3898055


Sorry, but you have misinterpreted that. Perhaps quotes would have helped?

> More like helping to perpetuate the image that "the corporation where I work is a "fun" place to be".

...where I'm quoting a Googler (not me).


Tremendously. The quotes there entirely change the comment. The language leading up to your quotation gives no indication that you are quoting someone else at all.

I also love that I'm gray in less than sixty seconds for trying to help you be a little more clear in your comments due to a pretty severe misunderstanding.




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