Related: Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773253
I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
Some fun here but wow do these get negative. I can relate to a lot of this stuff and I hope the artist is ok.
If a relationship is bringing you sadness and negativity all the time then it either needs some nurturing or a nuclear option.
The nice thing with employer relationships is you can literally walk away. Relationships with people are worth fixing but no job is worth the sadness, even if it’s with someone as prestigious as Google.com.
Certainly a somewhat limited audience but as a xoogler I found a lot of those hilarious.
Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet:
https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally.
https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did.
https://goomics.net/118/ - the last of three TailGator comics. A more innocent time.
And last, https://goomics.net/106/ - not Google-specific at all, but an instant classic of the industry.
> Size of the pool of candidates for a position at Google <image of the world here>
Yea, no. It's kind of funny that the image of the world is centered at North America. That's how I feel about Google (and a lot of other big tech) hiring practices.
I'm not saying you can't work for Google from the UK, Germany, India, or other places, but it gets a lot harder.
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D̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶
Pray that nobody notices
This one has a lot of meme opportunity. Imagine a third pane ("Oracle" or something) with guns pointed both inward and outward!
some much about I what dislike about google these days can be traced backed to this comic
Rules for thee, not for me.
A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/
Dude was done with Google at around comic 280 and didn't notice for almost 100 more comics.
They are great! But some (most?) could really benefit from a creation date/year being visible, especially when referencing years that are made out to be "far in the future" but are in the past now
I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one someday.
If you right click and click View Image, you can then zoom in.... helpful for https://goomics.net/img/2018-01-25_mk_cookbook.png
You can use the 'j' and 'k' keys to navigate between comics.
Other work from the same author (has been a public site for a while): https://bonkersworld.net/
Good one: https://goomics.net/361/
Xoogler here, I loved these too... I wish I could find the internal comic about Intellij and Eclipse both as big floating messes -- similar in style to https://goomics.net/364/. It might have been an internal meme.
This one is fantastic. Seems a little strange that they're wearing an apple shirt when google does the same thing though and its a google comic that seems generally self-scathing.
For all the comments here, i thought the criticism in these comics would be a lot more biting.
The fact that you could rebrand at least 70% of these as Facemics or about a hundred other Xyzmics says a lot about how much Google drives tech-industry culture. Worth pondering whether that's a good thing.
https://goomics.net/239/ needs a few more darts ;)
pity the RSS feed is dead: https://goomics.net/feed.xml
Anyone know the story behind "Code Mega"?
I made a comic book archive out of it for easier reading on phones/tablets/e-inks: https://store.lisk.in/tmp/goomics.cbz
Hopefully someday this will have a companion site, like https://www.explainxkcd.com/
Tons of these are relevant to tech industry in general.
Braised https://goomics.net/347/
Haha, so true.
Pretty strong collection in the aggregate.
Looks like Dilbert is now working for a real company...
And there are 30 thousands of him.
It is interesting to see people complaining about google getting into military and immigration. And not complaining about universities doing the exact same thing. I don't see much opposition in the academic and they work on the same kind of "problems".
Launch and run warrants the brag. Shipping is hard.
These are great!! Thank you for sharing. :)
Is it me or the site navigation makes it really annoying to go through the comics?
Comic sites (e.g. xkcd) usually allow users to navigate sequentially without having to go back a page after each comic.
365. Oof.
Not good resolution, hard to read some of the text
"Don't focus too much on promotion" - A Billionaire Google Exec
https://goomics.net/228/