Snakes on the Office

[yesthattom]

Yes it's true. The pet snake my group keeps in the office escaped. It's a shame because it escaped on April Fools Day so it was difficult to communicate that this was not a joke.

The snake was finally found and the owner will now keep it at home. I hope it he takes the webcam we set up for it home so we can still visit it. I assume we'll have a "no snake" policy soon. Luckily Google is still a dog-friendly company. (You can bring you dog to work as long as co-workers near you don't object.)

CNN covered the snake capture.

Official Google Story is really well-written.

Comments

[baerana.livejournal.com]

i'm so happy it was found! that would have been so sad!!

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

Aw, bummer. I always like to see unconventional pets in the office.

I'm about done with the dogs, though. They all seem to have some issue: attacking bicycles, peeing on people's stuff, begging relentlessly for treats their medical condition does not allow.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the time acrobatty's and my ferret got loose on an airplane... ;-)

[knell.livejournal.com]

As a cat person, I really think sysadmins are more likely to be cat people than dog people, but then again I know that an office cat would be kind of impractical (tendency to get shut in comms rooms and play with the pretty wires too much, or get lost under the floor, dead mice under conference tables, etc..).

It's a shame Kaiser had to go home. I enjoyed watching him doing.. well, not much, except at feeding time - the NYC office is a fun place, but I guess they've decided that this all made for a little *too* much fun.

(sorry for the earlier blank comments - buggy ol' LJ throwing DB errors and posting empty comments)

[xthread.livejournal.com]

We presently have a giant dragon in a cage about twenty feet from my desk.
It has crickets, because that's what giant dragons eat.
So when I walk in, I think 'oh, someone's got after dark running, with the crickets'
And then, 'No, those are real crickets'