For a moment there Vince Vaughn was starting to look like a legitimate comedian. Once Old School hit I was all about the Vince Vaughn team dynamic. It was funny, raunchy, and married the worlds of youth with my (slightly more ‘seasoned’) generation. The basic premise there was the aged bringing wisdom to the youth of a new generation. Fast forward 10 years (and several bad movies along the way) Vaughn appears in the 2013 flop The Internship. Few found value in the film. I did find some value in the film. Actually, I found some value in the film’s depiction of Google. I haven’t researched Google to the level I need to in order to make this theory work, but here is what I think: There is academic value to the Google workplace approach.
Part of what makes Google work is the environment it creates. From the ground up Google is geared towards a youth market. In short, Google recognizes the audience of not only the consumer but the worker and creates an environment that satisfies both. Given the eccentricities common to the academic fold this might be a hard task to accomplish on a budget, but it is doable.