The Tech Commute Did Not Take Place

The normal tech commute at MacArthur BART, consisting of over twenty individual buses from Facebook and Google, was reduced to just two buses on the morning of May 1st. Despite the trickery of the mainstream media, the tech commute did not take place.

(Among many big plans that developers have for the old Sears building, they are seeking to attract a large tech company to move in (rumored to be Google.) The evening of May 1st, the building was one of many attacked during an anti-police march.)

A source inside Google turned some of protesters onto an important piece of information in regards to May 1st. Google had canceled all of its bus pick-ups aside for the one at the Park & Ride near the corner 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. The buses for this stop were still scheduled, and any Googler in Oakland who wanted to catch a ride to Mountain View was instructed to go there.

At 7:30, a small group arrived and blocked a Google bus with a banner that read FUCK OFF GOOGLE. But given that this bus had only a single employee inside, the protesters let it go. Over the next forty minutes, over a dozen Google employees began to arrive for a bus that would never come.

After half an hour of waiting, many of these Googlers grew agitated. Some of them nervously chatted with each other, but mostly they remained alienated. Not even this disruption could bring them together. Each of them dealt with this dilemma in their own way. This man, for example, took off his shoes and began to meditate, hoping to tune out the antagonists ruining his commute. He sat beside two other Googlers who had little to say to each other.

Pacing around, not very subtle, betraying their own stupidity, were two undercover Google security guards, one pictured here.

This Googler, whose job was working to authenticate and identify Google users, did not enjoy having his picture taken.

But this Googler almost seemed to be posing for the camera.

However, he had little to say to his colleagues.

They all seemed quite bored of each other.

None of these people would make it to Mountain View that morning. They could hardly process what was happening to them. One Google employee claimed to be against the vast corporate leviathan they worked for but were proud of their work at Google Translate, saying their work made the world a better place. “The most common phrases translated are ‘Hello,’ ‘How are you?’ and ‘I love you,” he explained to the protestors. “See how good my work is?” The protesters were not very amused and stopped listening to him. After over an hour of waiting, the tech employees began to leave one at a time.