Facebook’s New Campus

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By Nads | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 | 4:31 am | 11 Comments
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Sometimes I think I’m in the wrong business. Yesterday they announced the production of the second facebook campus aka “West Campus” where it’ll inhabit 3,000 facebook employees. What’s even cooler is that new campus is going to be be designed by famous architect Frank Gehry! Rad, right?

I know this sounds really juvenile of me and high school like, but I wouldn’t mind working on a “campus” like it’s high school or college! Take me back to the good ol’ days where all that mattered were finals and the fact that I got too drunk and flashed my beav at a party while doing a keg stand. TMI, I know…

As I digress…back to the facebook campus. Check out the plans:

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

11 Comments

  1. 1
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:15 am

    Okay. So, know they are trying to make it sound like their employees aren’t going to work but COME ON. People PAY to work/study on campuses. Most people do just fine going to work in fancy things called OFFICES. Jackasses.

    It makes me almost puke. I just think it is stupid. Sorry but I think I am just bitter. When I paid $45,000 for one year of being on CAMPUS for an art school, I get defensive. I wish I got paid for smoking weed and partying and writing code. Instead I just got in debt and a massive headache. If I didn’t like keeping in touch with my friends from HS, said art school, and people here on TVGasm, I leave.

    Self-righteous dialogue and unnecessary rant over.

  2. 2
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 6:16 am

    *I would leave Facebook. I should have clarified.

  3. 3
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 7:31 am

    And the cherry on top Parisi is, they get to wear jean, Tee’s and hoodies. Take naps, work out. It’s fricking Neverland for Facebook.

    Seriously look it up but only if you really want to piss yourself off.

    Facebook is dead anyway, Twitter is where it’s at.

  4. 4
    labowner
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Parisi you want the Facebook experience? Move back home. You want to be at work for 12 hours a day everyday? It’s not that great of an environment. And they will toss you on your ass by the rip old age of 35 if you make it that far.

  5. 5
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    I dont want the FB experience. That is the whole point. I worked 12 hours a day on my feet for many years and I didn’t work on a campus. No work environment is great. I just don’t see why it has to be called a campus instead of an office. What is the big freaking deal?

  6. 6
    NatPatBen NatPatBen
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    The humongous company I work for is also in the process of building a big “campus” to consolidate 20+ other locations in the city. I think the main reason (other than to save money long term) is to appeal to a more collaborative workforce, aka the way they believe college folks are used to working together. I like knowing where I’ll work instead of being moved to a diff part of the city every few years, so I was able to buy a house near the future campus… but I sure will miss the office I’ll lose to the open floor plan.

  7. 7
    Bobbi
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    I think it’s RAD MAN peace out

  8. 8
    JudgyWudgy JudgyWudgy
    Posted August 29, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Ugh, I hate Twitter. In all fairness I’ve hated Facebook since every over sharer or middle schooler with an email address could join, but can’t break the habit due to the nostalgia of my spring semester of freshman year of college when you had to beg to get it on your campus.

  9. 9
    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted August 31, 2012 at 3:32 am

    As someone who used to work at Cisco, they call it a campus because it isn’t really just a single building. It’s a crap-ton of buildings (I believe Cisco has something like 50 of them now in their main location in SJ). The place I work now only has one building in SJ, so they call it an office.

    Actually, here’s one of the definitions of the word “campus” (yep, you’re making me break out a dictionary): a large, usually suburban, landscaped business or industrial site.

    Also, as a software engineer, I don’t think you quite realize how much work is involved. It’s 3:30 am here right now. What do you think I’m still in the process of doing? If you answer “writing code”, then you’re right. The fact I’m doing it in my pajamas doesn’t alleviate the fact that I’m working at 3;30 in the morning.

  10. 10
    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted September 2, 2012 at 3:52 am

    Wow, it’s 3:30 again. On a Saturday night (Sunday morning) no less. What am I doing up again? (Must be partying and smoking weed, but it sure looks like coding to me).

  11. 11
    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted September 2, 2012 at 3:59 am

    “And the cherry on top Parisi is, they get to wear jean, Tee’s and hoodies. Take naps, work out. It’s fricking Neverland for Facebook.”

    As someone who’s been doing this since 1995, you want to know why you get to wear jeans, tees, and hoodies? Because you need to be comfortable when you’re working a 20-hour stretch, hours after your brain is turned to mush. Plus you have a ridiculous amount of specialized technical knowledge that you’ve gained by years of 12-16 hour days and nights, so you’ve earned those jeans and hoodies (and, since most customers aren’t around at 1 in the morning, why does it matter what you wear?).

    I’ll give you the working out (my office has a decent gym — good for when you need some exercise because you haven’t had a chance to leave). We also have free snacks and drinks (read “stuff to eat so that you don’t have to leave the office”). It’s all very appreciated, but there’s also a reason for it.

    Take naps? That’s a new one by me. We have couches in my office, but I can count on zero fingers the number of people I’ve actually seen taking naps.

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