Goodbye to the Dried Office Mangos

Even as the whole of Silicon Valley grapples with historic inflation, a bank crash, and mass layoffs, Google's woes stand apart. The explosion of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more broadly has produced something of an existential crisis for the company, a "code red" moment for the business. Yes," Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, told The New York Times. But Google employees are encountering another problem: "They took away the dried mango," says a project manager at Google's San Francisco office, whom I agreed not to name to protect the employee from reprisal. At least at that office, the project manager said, workers are seeing less of long-cherished food items--not just the mango, but also the Maui-onion chips and the fun-size bags of M&Ms.