For the last few months I've been seeing these ugly brown Bauer Transportation mini-buses wandering around my neighborhood in San Francisco. They're not marked with anything describing where they're going, and we all wondered what they were about.
My theory was always that they had to be taking Googlers to work -- nobody else could afford it -- and today the New York Times confirmed it. (Don't you just love it when you guess right?)
Turns out that the company schleps some 1,200 people a day all around the Bay Area. For free. With free Wi-Fi. And bike racks. And room for dogs. The Times' Miguel Helft reports that many riders see the buses as the best of the company's many legendary perks.
Hey, it's probably the only way they'd get ME to head all the way down from San Francisco to Silicon Valley every day (not that they seem interested). So what the heck, after my experiences hitching rides on CMP's commuter van from Great Neck to Manhasset back on Long Island, I'm wondering how hard it could be to impersonate a Googler...
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