It seems that evil doing can be found everywhere these days, and the New York office of a certain search giant is no exception. Late yesterday, a Googler reportedly tweeted that her workplace had been bugged.
According to Nicholas Carlson, the jammy5 Twitter account belonging to “a Google-omaniac in marketing” just sent the message, “jeepers i am not immune from the cold war paranoia. Bugs have been found at work.”
Now the account – which a small amount of detective work connected to Pamela Eng, a product marketing manager previously employed by DoubleClick- seems to have been deleted, as was she, and Google’s not volunteering many details regarding her present location.
This doesn’t exactly count as a PR win for the company. There’s a definite stigma associated with bugs and making employees disappear, and it may be that no amount of free speech and fun artwork will convince would-be recruits to risk getting listened in on or buried alive.
To be fair, though, it’s not known whether 20 or 2,000 of the bugs were found. And as we acknowledged in the first sentence, lots of other places in New York, including the CIA Building, a Times Square adult movie theater, and the proposed Islamic Community Center, have been affected.
Good luck to all Google employees who work at the New York office, and keep your voices down to a whisper or learn American Sign Language.
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