My cousin who works at Google invited myself and PINK to have dinner with her at one of Google’s famed eateries. We chose to eat at the cafe that had a variety of foods. There was so much to choose from, we felt like we were at a buffet in Las Vegas. As I always do at buffets I loaded up my plate with a little bit of everything. I guess you could say I was feeling a little lazy, but not so. I just didn’t want to have to get up after I started to grub. By the time I got done making my selections I had a pretty significant pile on my plate I had: Stir-fry shrimp with rice, Tofu sushi rolls with some greens, Hot links, Crackers with brie cheese and some Asian noodles. For desert I had a couple of coconut Madeleines, some melted marshmallow-cake thing, and two pecan tarts. Frickin awesome! The best part is that it was all FREE! The Google employees eat like this everyday M-Th, breakfast, lunch and dinner. NICE! Feeling a little jealous? I am too.
We got to take a little tour of the campus and got an inside look at the common “visitor-oriented” common areas with the buildings. They get a lot of free food, snacks, drinks. It seemed like everywhere we went there was an availability of snacks. It was like your company buildings vending machine except you didn’t need to look for change in your backpack or in the deep lint set in your pockets. It was all FREE. No wonder there were still so many people at work at it was close to 7pm. You literally don’t have to do any of your own cooking M-Th if you work here.
Everything was also so “secretive”. Lots of signs posted where “visitors” were not allowed. There were literally signs posted up with the word “VISITOR” inside a red circle with the red diagonal strike-through. I felt like a cigarette inside a California restaurant. The walk-through from building to building was a little confusing. It all felt like things were in disarray. The end of our visit brought us back to the visitor check-in area, but I couldn’t even tell it was one. A bit confusing, but oh well. I guess if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Later,
GREEDY
Newborn Apple™
