Whatever did they think when the season bonuses were issued to staff? Now remember, they normally receive a nice $1000 present, but this year, the powers-that-be decided to give them something special. Imagine the excitement as they unwrapped their bundles (yes we know, they don’t unwrap them, but just for fun….) Lo and behold, they each received a version of the G1, Google’s mobile phone released this year to compete with Apple’s iPhone. Internal emails thanked everyone for their hard work and talked of a ‘dream phone’. This mobile, which runs on Google’s network, Android, was recently described by The Register, a tech website, as ‘an unattractive and uninspiring piece of plastic’.

Google employees must wonder what is happening in their world; first they find evening openings of Google campus restaurants across the world are being cut, now this!