Google gives employees "Dream Phones" for holiday bonuses

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If any Google employee reading this is pissed that they didn't get their CASH bonus, they need to wake up and smell the coffee... The economy is terrible, high tech purchasing INCLUDING AD sales is way down. Do they expect the idiot company approach of paying out the cash bonus then doing mass layoffs... Humility is rarely present in High Tech, with the worst offenders, Banking and Finance eliminating or greatly reducing bonuses due to government intervention it made sense for Google not to stick out as "handing out cash to employees who have paying jobs" vs the pain a lot of people are going through who have been laid off. Many won't have a jolly Christmas this year - just remember that.

Smart of Google to can the cash bonus. Would have been smarter NOT to give the G1 in replacement of the cash bonus - e.g. position it as "you were getting this anyway even if we still had the bonus cash"