<p>Sometimes, that’s just plain time management as you’ve said. Another factor is males can get away with not doing laundry for longer intervals without serious social sanction. </p>
<p>If you want to see some proof for yourselves, make a completely unannounced surprise inspection of some fraternity houses/male dorms…especially around midway-end of the semester and NOT during parent weekends. </p>
<p>In one fraternity house I toured in the Boston area, there were literally rats gathered around and trying to gain access to an overfilled garbage can in the kitchen sink area. </p>
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<p>One Boston area friend knew a wealthy student who’d go off to Paris every weekend to drop $10k on clothing for the following week, wear them once, toss/give away to others, and rinse and repeat the next weekend to graduation. </p>
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<p>That’s not the only reason according to several HS classmates who are working/were working for them. </p>
<p>Another factor is because they’re expected to work long hours and be so dedicated to the company that it becomes their life. While this works for some, it also burns others out to the point they need to take a temporary hiatus or quit altogether. </p>
<p>One friend who quit Google still receives requests from them to go back working for them. However, he’s had enough of what he considers an extremely unbalanced work-life balance and is happier working at a company where he has more reasonable hours and his off-time is really off. </p>
Nope thats not correct. Google is a work environment that sure, expects a lot from their employees, but they value work-life balance, and the benefits they offer to their employees are amongst the best around. Google employees are amongst the most satisfied with their employer (glassdoor reviews are but one source of info). Not to derail this thread with this discussion, it is sad that you seem to be able to see only the negative in everything. Really.</p>
<p>I am actually astonished by some of the reactions on this thread. By the logic of some posters, colleges shouldn’t have meal plans and dining halls–everyone should make their own food (because it’s a life skill!). They probably shouldn’t offer any kind of student services either, because figuring everything out all by oneself is also an important life skill. And maybe parents should stop funding their kids’ education altogether, because…yeah. How are kids ever going to make it in the real world (unless, of course, they end up at Google ) if they don’t take complete responsibility for themselves starting at age 18?</p>
<p>“One Boston area friend knew a wealthy student who’d go off to Paris every weekend to drop $10k on clothing for the following week, wear them once, toss/give away to others, and rinse and repeat the next weekend to graduation.”</p>
<p>No one believes this kind of tall tale. It’s possible that this wealthy student went often to Paris for the weekend, and it’s possible that she dropped a lot of money on clothing, and it’s possible that she gave a lot of her barely-worn clothing away to others. But to really believe that this occurred every single weekend - that she bought $10K worth of clothing only to be used for the following week and poof, it was gone – nope, no one with any sense believes it.</p>
<p>We had laundry service (free, up to some max) when I was in college, ages ago. I still remember pressed jeans, t-shirts and pillow cases. Funny, but when we get together, we still talk about this perk. No harm done. The school did away with it, years ago, but absorbed those workers into other jobs. We had laundry machines in each dorm, for the most personal things.</p>
<p>I remember reading an interview with Wilie Brown, the CA politician. He’d give away his silk ties, after wearing them once or twice. Said they were never the same after dry cleaning.</p>
<p>And you sound like someone who applied and didn’t make the cut.
Some posters do seem to routinely make blanket statements from hearsay of supposed former HS friends from decades gone by, cousins or what have you. While yes, I do have relatives working there (and they are not complaining). read its employee satisfaction rating on glassdoor - overall it is quite impressive. Few other companies have as high a rating, with 91% of employees recommending it to a friend.</p>
<p>Though my kids do do their own laundry, I don’t see what’s the essential difference between having your laundry done, and having your meals/food service provided. Either way, those are services most adults don’t have provided for them. </p>
<p>Truthfully, no it doesnt, though you probably wont believe that. My initial post was in response to someone who seems to like to find something negative to say about almost any post. Was simply disagreeing. There are happy and unhappy employees everywhere. But if you want another site about good places to work other than glassdoor, which is a useful tool for job seekers, heres another for you. <a href=“Best Companies to Work For 2014 - Fortune”>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/</a></p>
<p>This discussion was about colleges and laundry services. Lets get back on topic.</p>
<p>lstttt, you do realize you are in the parents’ forum, don’t you? Maybe you should come back in a few years when you have a bit more perspective.</p>
<p>If you really want to believe that top companies want to employ talent who dont know how to wipe their own noses or tie their own shoes, well, not much more to say. In some cases companies are trying to attract top talent, and having a variety of perks may be one way to do that. Some companies may offer great perks because thats their corporate culture. Many of these more youthful sounding perks are at companies in CA with a preponderance of young employees, as sounds like from this article <a href=“The Most Popular Employee Perks Of 2014”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/kateharrison/2014/02/19/the-most-popular-employee-perks-of-2014/</a> Regardless, lets get back to Davidson and their laundry.</p>
<p>Speaking for myself, doing laundry is a heck of a lot easier with enough down-time in between washer and dryer cycles to focus on other tasks like academic assignments, work projects if working from home, hobbies, etc.</p>
<p>In contrast, cooking is not only time-consuming, but one which requires much more focused attention if one doesn’t want to risk botching making something more elaborate than an instant meal or worse, burning something. </p>
<p>@cobrat I don’t know about you, but I would be afraid for the health and well being of anyone who had to eat my kids cooking. Pink socks and shrunken sweaters only look bad.</p>
<p>The HORROR of this cutback can’t be overstated !</p>
<p>The absurd “Google employes are overgrown children” line defies comprehension. Google can and does attract top talent, even for lowly intern positions, because so many people want to work there. The people who end up being qualified by the time they graduate from college come from a wide array of backgrounds. There is no evidence that there are any more spoiled kids working there than at any other company.</p>
<p>Reading between the lines, it seems like someone might be a recent college graduate who resents not having the opportunity to work at a place like Google.</p>
<p>While I’ve seen that happen with my post-college roommates and college dormmates on occasion, I’ve never had issues with shrinkage or clothes turning pink. </p>
<p>And during undergrad I didn’t sort my whites from color clothes in order to save time and money at the coin-operated laundry machines. Never an issue. </p>
<p>Again, if you had the wisdom of life experience you would know that people change jobs frequently these days–especially younger workers in their 20s. The “honeymoon ending” with a job or company is not unique to Google. </p>
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<p>So you and jym both have your own opinions. Great. Most of us would trust hers more than yours, sorry to say.</p>
<p>No one minds you being on the parents’ forum if you make substantial contributions to the discussion. As it is, you are coming across as rude and confrontational (not just here but in other threads). </p>
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