Google treated us to a family BBQ on Friday. Most of the Google employees think that Google is a family-friendly employer. Whenever people talk like that on the internal mailing lists, it makes me cringe. If Google already thinks that it is plenty family-friendly, then they won’t get the idea to stop doing the 3-day off-sites where spouses aren’t invited. Those trips are a great perk for young singles. They are long workdays for me though. So anyway, we were really happy that they hosted a BBQ and all the Google parents got to bring their kids to play.