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> We don't want you to go to your accommodation before 12 midnight - so we provide you mattresses near your workspace for resting. There's anyways a security guard outside your work-area - so you don't get to leave the office before 12 midnight and you don't get to sleep in the office. Attendance happens at 9:30 am every morning. Sundays are off if you have met your weekly goals!

Uh... nice try but no cigar, guys.

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Wow. If I want that kind of treatment, I'll keep my current day job in IT.

Seriously, would this sort of arrangement be acceptable for most people in India? I don't think anyone could put up with that, but for so long.

(I am from India.) No, I think that's just bizarre.

As a people, we aren't as much averse to structure as US people are, but this is taking things a bit too far. And I honestly hope that these people are only kidding when they talk about all these "we will watch you" kind of things.

I think the problem is that we are notorious for slacking off!

This whole thing must be some kind of joke.

Let's just say their culture is not your culture or my culture.

seems like they have taken the whole startup culture seriously and made them into rules. Really really bizarre.

Does anyone know if this kind of thing is still practiced? I can think of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (factory doors were locked to keep people from misbehaving; the fire was disastrous), De Beers (built concentration camps for workers so they couldn't fence diamonds), and the drug trade -- does anyone else work under actual guards?

>does anyone else work under actual guards?

Workers at money printing factories?

Yeah like that isn't the default easiest bribing situation ever.

Guard: "Not so fast!"

Worker: "How about I split the $10 million in cash I'm holding with you?"

Can't leave the office all day -- it's going to get messy in there.

When you start you get water wings that say, "Make Something People Want"

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