Do you ever jest around with your coworkers about how cool it would be to ramp up desks out of one-time railway car or have get together on a houseboat ? possibly not , but if you puzzle out at Google , you might require to lead off — because they might actually make yourweird situation dreamsa reality .
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That’sexactly what Google didthis week in Australia . Thanks to one overbold - alecky applied scientist ’s weird and totally not serious request , the search giant just install two pull away Sydney Monorail cars in their office there . Just to be unclouded , these monorail cars do not zip around the offices like a streetcar delivering snack and shuttling nerds to encounter . They ’re being coif up as merging rooms , complete with TV and atmosphere conditioning .
The extraction storyis what have the installation especially interesting , though . At the beginning of this year , Google employee Paul Cowan file a ticket with the internal facilities team requesting that a monorail be installed to make it well-situated for employees to get to the different Google offices , which are spread out in the Pyrmont suburb of Sydney . A member of the facilities squad actually replied and , in detail , place out why this was such a bad idea , at one tip remark that it was “ more of a Shelbyville theme . ”
So Cowan was very surprised six months later , when that same facilities team member called him in for a meeting at a junkyard by the airport , where Google had purchased two old monorail cars . The automobile were set up earlier this week for , in the Sydney Morning Herald ’s estimation , the cost of around $ 250,000 .
It ’s tempting to just write this off as yet another merchandising travail in which Google start to preposterous length to prove what a cool company it is . We get it , Google . You ’re super robust and youhave slides in some of your officesand now monorail cars in another . On the other hand , it ’s really pretty coolheaded that Google ’s make use of goods and services of the one-time monorail cars , which would otherwise just moulder in that junkyard for the next 100 years . The caller is also shovel some John Cash from its mountains of money to the local government .
Does it make practical sensory faculty ? Probably not . Those monorail cars are understandably too big to tally in that edifice . ( evidently , there were only 20 cm of clearance when they pushed them in the window . ) It also looks like they ’re also too little to be comfortable conference rooms . But did it cheer up at least one public transport - loving engineer ? You betcha . [ SMHviaTNW ]
image byPaul CowanandBenjamin Hyneck
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