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Two teeshirts good; three evil

EvilLittle did Sergey Brin know, when he came up with Google's all-encompassing corporate philosophy, that it would be put to such petty uses. Don't be evil, Brin's motto, was supposed to guide Google's policy on Chinese censorship, and other moral dilemmas. Instead it's applied to nagging notices, such as this one on a campus tee-shirt cupboard.
Don't Be Evil [Shawiz, on Flickr]

8:09 AM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By Nick Denton
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  • Image of schvitzatura schvitzatura at 09:00 AM on 11/27/06
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    Is taking more than what a small baby rhino of a Ruby on Rails Googtube dev could eat from a Google microboulangerie also considered evil?

    Or just merely malevolently gluttonous?

  • Image of BitterGradStudent BitterGradStudent at 10:02 PM on 11/27/06
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    Petty? Minor? These are Google T-shirts we're talking about, the gold ingots among geek currencies. When I was there a couple of years ago, T-shirts were second only to micro-kitchens as a topic of internal mailing list debate, and one of the only sources of un-Googly, borderline evil behavior among employees.

    The distribution system for the shirts was so broken (at random times, piles were stuffed in a cabinet and then abandoned to a free-for-all), that on the rare occasions when someone stumbled on a fresh supply before it was ransacked, they felt justified in grabbing handfuls to make up for all the previous shipments they'd missed out on.

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