If some of the appeal of Nike is the sport facilities and campus the public school cafeteria lunch food certainly detract from that. The food is gross and we have to pay for it. How are we competing with tech talent again?
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Lol @8gfo - you’re wrong - he’s a lifelong Oregonian, went to college in Eugene, and has that Bronx street sensibility/style, but only been to New York like 3 times. Drives a 4Runner
@4mha - lemme guess… lifelong Nike obsessive, probably fancy yourself a sneakerhead / ‘streetwear’ (lol) / hip hop kinda dude but you’re only 10 yrs, maaaybe a generation removed from the farm. Hate “the Californians” because your pappy hates em and you’ve never left Oregon. School in Corvallis, summers in Lincoln City. Bout right?
Wow! Who cares? Bring your lunch to work then; problem solved! Better yet, get a life!
Haha food is what you care about??? Wow. Says a lot.
@ @4uvi+1dKZRNHq - funny that you are so crowned up - typical of all the worthless Californians moving up here. Hopefully you get sh-t-canned and you have to move away from both the swoosh and Oregon bc it’s tools like you no one wants to deal with. Edie tally when you are going to bi--h about food on campus. Get a freaking life loser!
@4drm: Hi! It’s @2ilc here. Why would I want to go back to Cali? I had a 2-bedroom 1955 Bungalow there just 20 minutes outside of San Jose. Sold it for $1.3M three years ago (I had paid $400K for it in 2006), came here and bought a beautiful $900K home in NE Portland with cash. Good timing too because THIS home is now worth what my San Jose home was worth.
Thanks, but I think I’ll stay. Especially if it causes jealous rage in pronoun-sharing dimwits like you. Lolz.
@ 2ilc- please please go back to Cali. It will be a blessing so don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Dude you are a snowflake seeking something to bi--h about. The food at Nike campuses are embarrassingly good with tons of options available relatively quickly.
Could it be cheaper? Sure. Could it be better? Sure.
Ever had the pleasure of working in 58 or 55 on the Tektronix campus and eating at the Tektronix cafeteria? Didn’t thinks so. STFU.
All I can say is WOW! It appears you are just a little bi--h looking to complain. If you don’t like the food then bring your own lunch if you can do better. It is so frustrating listening to crowned up entitled as-----s like this talk trash about the FOOD!!! Go work somewhere else snowflake - no one will know you left!
This is what happens when you let an external mediocre catering company control EVERY dining option on campus: Commissary food, mass produced.
Aramark's "LifeWorks" runs it all. Why not open it up to local restaurants? Or let food trucks come? (That is not allowed in the contract with LifeWorks is what I heard.)
That's the motivation for LifeWorks to elevate? They"ve got a monopoly. (Coffee shops seem to be the exception?)
I remember when Pok Pok set up shop there for a while. I invited an old co-worker to come and have lunch to try and impress him with the whole Nike experience. It was like $30 for the both of us and they literally took out two pre-sealed plastic pouches of Pok Pok food and re-heated them up. In front of us. Then charged me $30.
Biggest complaint is the price. At tech companies in Cali the food is good and cheap. At Nike the food is just OK and hella expensive. Last time I went to a Nike eatery a smallish portion of food with an even smaller side and a drink was $16. At first I honestly thought the cashier had made a mistake. I asked him how much every individual item was and then thought to myself “Good lord who can afford to eat here?”
When we return to campus Nike is going to lose at least 30 minutes of my time every day (worth about $25) as I venture off campus for a decent lunch that doesn’t cost so much.
competing for tech talent lol trust me food has almost nothing to do with it.
pms or swes (mid to senior lvls) without any direct reports in high tech make what VPs make at nike. anyone good in tech wouldnt be here unless it was for altruistic reasons
You’re either clueless, bored, or HR/comms.
The bacon is good
And the portions are so small.
Never understood this complaint. Expensive? Yes. But awful? Not really. You can order something and watch it be cooked right in front of you. You should visit an actual school cafeteria.
How is Nike “competing for tech talent?” Truth is, they aren’t. Now more than ever the tech functions at Nike are decidedly second tier. The work, the pay, the “culture” - Nike is behind in all three, almost laughably
It's completely overpriced because they know how much of a pain in the a** it is to try and drive somewhere to eat off campus during lunch hours. If you don't want to break the bank then you better get used to eating teriyaki chicken bowls with rubber broccoli every day.