It's time for us to update the Gawker Media seating chart, as the company has a new plan! Previously, we saw that 1/4 of desks were designated editorial, and 1/4 were for subletters. But things have changed quite a bit. For one thing, editorial is sprawling.
"There's room to MOVE as a fry cook."
Fuck you, Archie! Just for that, you're not in the gang anymore!
Bullshit. You're a white suburban punk. Just like me.
Beer is not needed here.
Is it ironic that this looks like a high school cafeteria? Is there a popular table?
1. No. 2. Can you doubt it?
Are those Aerons, or milk crates?
Why does AJ have two seats? Is his B.O. so bad these days that his fellow employees can only handle it in intervals, so they shift him around every couple of hours?
Where are Pareene and HamNo?
Pretty sure Pareene sits on AlexP's lap.
Yes, but I noticed the missing Hamilton. He works form home now?
Oh, haha, thanks! Hamilton isn't on here, though, right? Or am I completely blind?
And Doree?
I seem to recall Hamilton being grandfathered out of the hiring? That he's still a contractor and is therefore working from your favorite coffee shop? Or maybe your least favorite coffee shop so you'll leave him the fuck alone and not obsess about where he's sitting?
Sorry, that was meant to be funny, not mean. I post on the new Internet, I really do.
HamNo used to frequent the Grumpy's in Greenpoint. Maybe he left after the canceled Lipstick Jungle and he couldn't gaze longingly at Kim Raver between posting Shut Up College screeds. (They shot the show next door at Broadway Stages)
Fortunately my extreme flatulence has always required me to have an office with a door.
HOW MUCH DID DENTON PAY YOU FOR THIS BLOWJOB STORY, CHOIRE?!? You're bringing Gawker energy to The Awl! It's just all too soon!
where does HamNo sit?
Can I sit on Gaby's lap?
Where's the Razor scooter parking area?
I see no multicolored balance-balls
Ball pit!
They have Brian sitting next to Lawson. Nothing good can come of that.
Seriously.
What's more, they're required to dress alike.
I noticed that, too. I bet you can cut the tension with a mouse.
All the jizz- I mean Giz- is stuck in the corner.
But where is the high school cheerleading calendar?
Thank you for this Friday Morning Fix of Insidery. Banal, and terribly important.
If Gawker is media about media this post is media about media about media.
It's like looking at myself, right now!
Oh wait, I just moved to the couches! Hidden!
I'd recommend a sofa fort.
REMY SITS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM YOU?
I'll bet that's a nice, relaxing way to work.
Sitting next to Blakeley, eh? Hope your desk stays sex-free (is that still a joke that is made? Oh well, too late).
So does Denton sit at the grand piano in the bottom-left corner?
I may laugh over this comment until the end of days. Oh my God is that ever funny.
Piano: Denton::Organ: Dr. Phibes
(Actual Size.)
Is there a monument park at Gawker?
looks like the stool and dunce cap are in the lower left hand corner. good to know
This chart is worthless without the location of the giant urn of used Starbucks grounds from downstairs and amphetamines.
For some reason I'm surprised that Fleshbot works in the same office as the rest of the company. Perhaps I shouldn't be. That's got to make things interesting for the Deadspin guys.
for all the intra-gawker insider info one can glean (I mean, if one has no life and wants to simply observe some foreign media world via the internet) from various posts, there is very little INTER-gawker scoop. I am totes curious about how the Jezzies and Gizmos and Deadspinners interact. Well, moderately curious anyway.
Denton likes to keep them in the office so he can keep an eye on them.
That way, he can catch them red-handed if they're NOT watching porn during work hours.
The Fleshbot folks, I mean.
Why are there two people named "Giz"? And why to they sit right next to each other?
That must get very confusing.
"Hey Giz! No, not you ... the other Giz!"
It's time for someone to do a Leggo version of this.
Or an Eggo version?
Does the "x" mark the seat of the former intern who gave his or her life to smuggle this information out of SoHo?
That is where Matt Cherette is going to sit when he moves to NY.
The Moylan/ Lawson/ Blakely line up makes me glad I work from home.
It's like Lawson's penance for quitting, to have to sit between a big gay flaming gay stereotype of gayness as gayed by the gayest gay who ever gayed (wherein the spellcheck function is replaced by a command that says "gay it up, gay!") and, on the other side, the embodiment all the worst things about heterosexual males, as multiplied by every "I used to be a nottie, now I'm hottie" episode of The Ricki Lake Show, wherein people who've lost weight feel like now that they're skinny they don't have to maintain even an iota of likable personality.
Makes me think of that Simpsons episode where Homer reapplies at the plant and has to go through the 'supplicants' door.
Sorry. The new nice hasn't finished downloading onto my hard drive yet.
Hahaha, yes! Although my thought was more that with Richard sitting next to Brian, he might look over Brian's shoulder every once and a while and point out that whatever tired gay stereotype piece Brian was writing was completely offensive. So far this doesn't appear to have happened.
Every once in a while, that is. When the edit feature coming?
The sad thing is, though, that Moylan's "ability to
enunciate conversation-starting ideas" and Blakely's "videos I found on the Internet" get a lot more pageviews than Richard's beautiful, poetic, often Dada-esque posts, on the whole.
What about Adrien Chen?
Could you let me know the make and model of the office loudspeakers please.
Needs more Russian Tea Room.
At first I thought this looked dreary and cramped, but then I saw the "open office area" off to the upper right. Looks nice.