{"id":240408,"date":"2025-10-21T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240408\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:38:09","slug":"one-of-googles-new-york-offices-needs-literal-debugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240408\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Google&#8217;s New York offices needs literal debugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Bed bugs: the nightmare of any city dweller, frequent traveler, and now Google employee. The team at the company&#8217;s Chelsea campus were notified on Sunday that a possible bed bug infestation had been discovered in the building and were told to remain at home so the location could be treated. As if working over the weekend wasn&#8217;t enough of a bummer. Fortunately, exterminators collected their bug bounty, and employees were allowed to return to the building on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google told employees to file a report if they had symptoms of bed bug bites or saw evidence of bed bugs on site, according to an email sent by the company and obtained by <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/theres-a-beg-bug-infestation-at-googles-manhattan-offices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wired;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Wired<\/a>. They were also told to contact professional exterminators if they accidentally brought bed bugs home; hopefully Google foots the bill for those unlucky people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">According to Wired&#8217;s sources, the infestation may have been caused by &#8220;a number of large stuffed animals&#8221; in the Google office, but the publication wasn&#8217;t able to confirm that. It&#8217;s always the ones you least suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bed bugs: the nightmare of any city dweller, frequent traveler, and now Google employee. The team at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[132612,132613,168,74],"class_list":["post-240408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bed-bugs","tag-frequent-traveler","tag-google","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}