Google chef in homeless shelter

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Google chef in homeless shelter

Google hype, Google realityGoogle's cafeterias are an arm of its PR machine. One can read endless paeans to their free, organic, locally-sourced, employee-engorging meals. But you'll never read about how they're serving up homelessness as a side dish. Google pays its chefs so little that at least one has ended up in a San Francisco homeless shelter, unable to find a $1,000/mo. studio he can afford.

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