I feel like this is a metaphor. https://t.co/KtCHX7IePT
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) June 22, 2017
If you were to compare BuzzFeed to a dirty motel that you’re too scared to look at what’s on the bedspread with a black light, you’d be correct:
Well then. Bed bugs detected at BuzzFeed NYC HQ. Fumigation happening tomorrow, employees asked to WFH "out of abundance of caution"
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) June 22, 2017
But we must credit BuzzFeed’s own Steven Perlberg for reporting on his own filthy work conditions:
I'm the media reporter!
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) June 22, 2017
More reporting from inside the office:
SCOOP: the BuzzFeed bedbugs were detected on the 14th floor, a source still in the building tells me ? #bugsfeed
— Julia Reinstein (@juliareinstein) June 22, 2017
I regret googling "can bed bugs live in computers?"
— Joanna Borns (@robotics) June 22, 2017
i workshopped some jokes about the bedbugs do you want to hear them
— Ellen Cushing (@elcush) June 22, 2017
BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith reports he’s “left the country.” How convenient that he’s not going to be around at his website’s time of crisis:
I've left the country.
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) June 22, 2017
As for the office, it’s a ghost town:
The BF newsroom after an email goes out telling everyone to stay home because we have bed bugs ?#bugsfeed pic.twitter.com/HTtbXXiYTZ
— Leticia Miranda (@letidmiranda) June 22, 2017
Any recent visitors to BuzzFeed should take note:
We interviewed Emma Watson and then surprised her with bed bugs
— Andrew Ziegler (@zieg) June 22, 2017
And could Facebook be next?
If you think it's funny that BuzzFeed's office has bedbugs, let me sweeten the deal: Facebook is in our office building, too. ?
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) June 22, 2017
And what is going on in NYC? Last week it was bees at Vox:
Bees at Vox, bedbugs at BuzzFeed – maybe Trump arranged for a pestilence on the media?
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 22, 2017
You just knew it was Trump’s fault somehow.
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