This funny little piece of email just got forwarded to me ...
From: "****, ***"
Date: February 3, 2012 10:11:04 AM PST
To: Greg Barto [@ TechCrunch]
Subject: NapQuest
Hey Greg
It is one of our goals to get a "nap room" set-up in every location. Basically, it's a closed room where we would put a chaise or couch, darken the windows and allow people to nap as the [sic] like. This is high on the priority list for Arianna and your office is one of the few where we don't yet have it in place.
When I visited your office on Wednesday, I looked around. It strikes me that the room (3rd office from the back corner) might be a good choice?
There are currently a couple of desks in there we would need to remove. Then I would purchase the furniture and arrange to have the window glass tinted.
What do you think? I just need your agreement to move ahead and I will coordinate making it happen. Let me know.
Thanks,
**** ****
Sr. Facilities Manager, PA/SF
Corporate Services, AOL Inc.
395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306
After making a bunch of "nap room" jokes and laughing uncontrollably like a hyperactive child around the office, I've finally figured out why this "high Arianna priority" (LOL) strikes me as so funny — other than the fact THAT IT IS ACTUALLY CALLED NapQuest.
This is Silicon Valley, where we herald founders like Jack Dorsey (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jack-dorsey)for working 16 hour days (at not one, but two! companies). People at startups are never not working.
Silicon Valley absolutely, positively doesn't need a nap room because in theory we don't sleep, let alone nap (and if we do need to nap — like in an emergency — we take that shiz home, far far away from hungry competitors!).
Please Aol Mr. Sr. Facilities Manager, take that money and buy us a bunch of Diet Coke to drink late at night or that great beef jerky we used to have or a copyediting
slave intern or passes to Burning Man or anything but a room specifically designed for being less productive.
Oh sure, it could be worse. At least they're not trying to install one of these things. (http://www.theonion.com/articles/huffington-post-employee-sucked-into-aggregation-t,27244/)
Update: PandoDaily (http://www.pandodaily.com) founder Sarah Lacy (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sarah-lacy) weighs in (http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/03/i-cant-believe-arianna-is-turning-my-old-office-into-a-nap-room/) on the tragic potential fate of her old office.
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