Yesterday was one of the craziest days at work. I should have known it was going to be an odd day when in the morning a woman with a donut cart showed up. It was her first day in the office and as a way to introduce herself they had her walk around with a utility cart full of Dunkin Donuts and hand them out to people. I guess that’s one creative way to get to know someone, although I think everyone is just going to call her Donut Girl and not her real name.

At lunch time I was going down our food buffet. It was build your own pasta day with a few types of pasta, a few meats like italian sausage and meatballs, and two sauces. I rounded the corner to the dessert area and started freaking out. There was the Holy Grail. The Sasquatch. The Loch Ness Monster. The urban legend of desserts that we’d heard of but never seen.

Photo by Justin

To rewind a bit, when we were in NY for those first two weeks after we joined Google, I bumped into a former coworker of mine from another job. I asked her what the Chicago office has that no other office has and she said “Rice Krispy treats with Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.” Well, then we couldn’t wait to get to the Chicago office! But then? When we got there? Often we had Rice Krispy treats at lunch and there were definitely Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups around, but not together. Never ever. Jeff, in particular, got pretty obsessed with the thought of Rice Krispy treats with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and he’s not even in the Chicago office. When he visited, though, he was so disappointed. Anyway, this dessert concept became like an urban legend around the Chicago office. And then yesterday? There it was.

Final addition to my crazy day: Around 4 or so I was sitting there and Fitz said “Hey, Rachelle, Don King is on the way here. Can you stick around and take some photos?” Let me think: “Hell yeh!” I’ve only shared my other photographs internally, but here’s one of Don & I.

[Read more →]