On Monday, while driving out of the parking garage at work, I noticed a sign off to the side, unused. It said “Parking Lot Full”, and was obviously designed to be used in the late mornings so that people didn’t have to drive all the way up to the roof, turn around and come all the way back down. I laughed out loud, because this was a literal sign that the company acknowledged the parking problem, yet refuses to create new parking spots because of the city regulations. (Part of the deal that allowed Yahoo! to build the campus in Moffet Park involved promising that a certain percentage of their employees would use “alternative means of transportation.”)
On Tuesday morning, I drove all the way up to the roof, then found the parking lot full, and had to come back down. On my way out of the garage, I looked for the sign. It was nowhere to be found.