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A graveyard of Google bikes

Original post made on Jul 19, 2017

It's just one of the many perks of working at Google — employees can take their pick from about 1,000 brightly colored bicycles to joyride around Mountain View. But the famous Google bike program has an ongoing problem that spikes in the warm summer months when a large number of its fleet goes missing.

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Posted by Bonnie Malouf
a resident of North Whisman
on Jul 19, 2017 at 6:42 pm

I live in a near- Google neighborhood. There are abandoned bikes around here every day. I have called the number for pick up and nothing has been done. On several occasions. Now I don't call any more. It feels like the height of entitlement to give people bikes, allow them to do whatever they want with them and then just give them more bikes. There seems to be very little accountability. Or concern that this affects others outside their company. The message is loud and clear: we have the money to do whatever we want, and we don't owe anyone anything. This is a community, Google, that you are part of. Be responsible. Act like you care. We really are all in this together.


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