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Wed, 7th January 2009
‘Private Tour’ of Google on eBay for a Couple Hundred Bucks
A clannish journeying of the Googleplex is feat for most $265 on eBay. No, it’s not a hard-up Googler moonlighting as a journeying pass — it’s for benevolence — specifically for the Menlo-Atherton High School. (The sell was prototypal patterned by somebody over at Search Engine Round Table.)
According to the sell description, winners get:
"Private journeying for digit of Google’s Mountain View campus . . .
An insider’s countenance at the ‘best locate to work’! Inspire your students or
take this fascinating journeying yourself. Includes meal at the Google Café
(known as ‘Charlie’s Place’). Date to be unreal with donor, weekdays
only, digit and a half distance tour, including lunch.
This component is restricted to M-A accord friends & family.
Value: Priceless Expires: July 31, 2008"
Google is, undoubtedly, an extraordinary workplace: Employees intend liberated meals, liberated laundry, liberated massages, liberated buses and belike a decorous cater of Google-branded tchotchkes. Still, it’s basically, glorified cubicleland — and man, a digit and a half distance journeying of an office? Eek! That’s a aggregation of duty time.
Melted From: Epicenter
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