Would you ride a bus to work?
Google is getting endless miles of positive press coverage around it’s Google’s Commuter Bus program. I guess Google PR is as good as Google Search as they have spun high-housing costs into a good thing. Does anyone like taking a bus? In high school everyone could not wait to start driving so they would not have to take the bus. Have things changed since then?
Why doesn’t Google just open an office in San Francisco? It’s not like they are all that short on cash? Every article mentions the buses as having Wifi. Can this Wifi be that good? Even stationary Wifi points have problems. Has Google really solved this problem too?
Should I really feel that depressed that I have a 5 minute commute to the office? I can drive my car and come as go as I want. I can even work at home when I want. Damn, I wish we had buses. Life would be good then, if Google’s doing it, it must be right.
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I don’t claim to be representative of the average population of tech worker, but I definitely prefer riding the bus to driving. My time driving is idle. My time riding the bus is productive. I can’t read and respond to e-mail while I’m driving. I can’t read books while driving. I can’t write an MRD while driving.