Posted on 01/16/2014 1:03:43 PM PST by RoosterRedux
In San Francisco, many long-time residents believe the influx of richly compensated workers at Google and other big technology companies such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc has pushed rents to unaffordable levels in neighborhoods that once were homes to the working class.
Technology companies have grown more aware of the tensions. They recently reached an agreement with the city of San Francisco governing the use of municipal bus stops. Google recently began to experiment with a privately chartered boat that can transport some of its employees living in San Francisco to its offices.
And Google may be taking extra steps to protect its workers at the bus stops it uses in San Francisco.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
If you’re not thinking that we’ve become a two-tiered society, you don’t live in Silicon Valley.
How dare they! That isn’t FAIR...How come the rest of the San Fran people don’t get security guards! And those high paying jobs are forcing rents to go higher (not the rent control distortion mind you)...
High costs are nothing new. When I was there in about 1985 costs in the Marina District for a one bedroom condo were around 1Mil.
Oh the income inequality! The only solution is to take money from brilliant software developers and give it, tax free, to pot smokers.
“Does they have them there guns?”
Around here you can have a uniformed law enforcement officer with a gun and arrest powers for (at last check, which was two years ago, I think) $60/hr.
Since when, if I have a job I report to each day, am I no longer part of the working class?
Why should anyone care? Google can move their staff however the hell they want.
I thought the left wanted people to use mass-transit? Or was it more that they wanted people to use GOVERNMENT mass-transit.
Google should hire Blackwater. Problem solved.
“richly compensated...”
Wow, that’s even more than HIGHLY compensated...
This just proves s Google is a government agency think of those unmarked planes going to Area 51 same thing but different
You may be crazy...but this time I think you are correct.
Google and America are controlled by "tall white aliens."
BTW, how tall was George W Bush?
Knee high to a gas pump?
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