Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber 38
New submitter Admiral Jimbob McGif writes Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch
the very foundations of the internet with AT&T indefinitely halting
future GigaPower FTTH
rollouts
due to uncertainty
over the future of net neutrality and the Obama
administration proposing to regulate
the internet under Title 2, highly suggestive jobs were recently
added
to Google Careers.
These Google Fiber related positions include: "City Manager", "Community Impact Manager" and "Plant Manager" in all potential Google Fiber cities. Perplexing inconsistences abound, such as Portland, Phoenix, San Jose and Atlanta positions being listed as local. Whereas San Antonio, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Nashville are listed as telecommute positions.
One is inclined to speculate as to what these job postings mean despite Google's disclaimer: "Not all cities where we're exploring hiring a team will necessarily become Google Fiber cities." Would Google post jobs as an act of posturing much like AT&T's supposed "Gigabit smoke screen" bluff? Or, should we expect to see these so called Fiber Huts springing up like so many mushrooms after a heavy rain in an additional 9 metro areas?
At the rate Google is going, is it too soon to speculate over Fiber Dojos popping up in Japan?
These Google Fiber related positions include: "City Manager", "Community Impact Manager" and "Plant Manager" in all potential Google Fiber cities. Perplexing inconsistences abound, such as Portland, Phoenix, San Jose and Atlanta positions being listed as local. Whereas San Antonio, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Nashville are listed as telecommute positions.
One is inclined to speculate as to what these job postings mean despite Google's disclaimer: "Not all cities where we're exploring hiring a team will necessarily become Google Fiber cities." Would Google post jobs as an act of posturing much like AT&T's supposed "Gigabit smoke screen" bluff? Or, should we expect to see these so called Fiber Huts springing up like so many mushrooms after a heavy rain in an additional 9 metro areas?
At the rate Google is going, is it too soon to speculate over Fiber Dojos popping up in Japan?
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Nah.. We will do like any other corporation out there and declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy, change our name and move on.
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Re: We need communism (Score:2)
So Google is using its massive wealth to at least make a few small dents in the central planning quagmire that has granted all sorts of telecomm monopolies and seriously screwed up the progress of technology; everywhere Google exerts some competitive pressure the incumbents react and/or people get Google Fiber connections directly, improving their conditions, but ...
what we need more of is central planning, and less capitalistic drive to outcompete the extant market players. Sheesh - some people just can't
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Neither this article nor your comment have anything to do with capitalism. It's no wonder your post is scored -1 without any moderation at all. That and your ideology died in the late 80's.
Besides, in DEEP contrast to every communist's philosophy and predictions, every self-identified communist society that survives to this day has either partially or fully incorporated capitalist concepts into their economy. The ones that didn't saw a big drop in GDP followed by total collapse, and among those, the ones wh
Bleh (Score:2)
Fiber Dojos in Japan and Fiber Taco Stands in Mexico and Fiber Curling Centers in Canada, oh my!
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Job postings are cheap (Score:3)
Long ago, I worked for a little company in one state, that bought a big company in another state (don't ask), and the big company had a union shop. At some point they were trying to negotiate something with the union, and they weren't getting what they wanted, so the next week they advertise 300 job openings in the local city paper, like they were going to move the entire shop in-state and just cut the union loose.
Nothing ever came of it.
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As is typical for the monopoly giants, expect to see a large push for their own services in the cities where Google job postings are springing up. While it -might- be a bluff on Googles part, it is definitely a cheap way to get your competition to spend a lot of money to expand their infrastructure which is long overdue. ( Looking at you there 4MB/s is fast enough AT&T )
Sort of stoking the fire if you
good way to get H1B workers in (Score:2)
good way to get H1B workers in and then after hire you can say move to CA at your own cost in 1 week or your gone. H1B must keep the job or be kicked out of the usa.
It was a dark and stormy night. (Score:2)
Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch the very foundations of the internet....
Bennett Haselton fans rejoice. We have a new candidate for the most incoherent and mangled prose ever posted to Slashdot.
It was a dark and stormy night. (Score:1)
I'd say my submission was a bit flowery and hyperbolic in its opening statement, but not mangled and incoherent. Mostly overly dramatic, as a metaphor like "scorched foundations" perhaps implies a bit more damage than AT&T dropping the ball with their gigabit fiber deployment. It's not like the internet is set to shut down or anything similarly serious. That having been said, for the true internet connoisseur, perhaps this country's gigabit rollout IS important enough to warrant such strong analogies.
Google promised to spill the beans by year's end&# (Score:2)
http://www.decaturmetro.com/20... [decaturmetro.com]
http://wraltechwire.com/no-goo... [wraltechwire.com]
And though the above two links only show this for Raleigh and Atlanta, I'll assume the same promise was made to all the potential new cities.
Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in?
Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?
If I was a gambling type, I'd wager the cities Google is posting for "local" candida
Google promised to spill the beans by year's end&a (Score:1)
QUOTE1 "Is there any correlation between how they posted the job offering and which cities they have announced in? Or maybe old posting were plan A and new are plan B?"
QUOTE2 "maybe Google is finding some other value in the deal, Hopefully not Comcast like access to more eyeballs."
Portland (Score:1)
This job needs to be local because google has a tax law problem in Oregon that it has to overcome.
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I suspect that they want people who live locally and are familiar with the location for all the jobs. The distinction isn't where you live, it's whether Google has an office there or plans to open one. If they have an office it's considered a local job, if they don't it's a telecommute job.
Google already has an Atlanta office, San Jose is close enough to the Googleplex for that person to be based there. Another post suggested that they will have to open in Portland for legal reasons. That leaves only Phoeni