Posted by Mark/SanJose on 7/19/11 6:40am
Msg #390113

Google Bubble Heads (Not Bobble Heads)

Recently I have been signing a number of Google people (I live in the headquarters area). I cannot abash their success, but based upon the people I have met, I cannot understand it either.

I have lived in the Silicon Valley for a long time, but never have I seen such a well funded and successful Kindergarten. (Daycare is in a separate wing, maybe the server farm)

A signing today was with a Management Gal that works in a "new products" secure area. During the afternoon "re-sign" (due to morning doc issues) She could not find her ID. So she asked if I could follow her on retracing of meetings through the GooglePlex. I said OK, Fine. I like to see grown adults go from floor to floor on stainless steel slides anyway! (Not Kidding!)

We went from building to building, room to room and nothing. So she asked me to wait for her at some 2nd floor coffee shop while she was coordinating on her cell with her Googlehubby.

Finally, we all meet in this preposterously pillow chaired, windowed triangle of a 2nd floor coffee shop with 18 inch tables up to your shins.

I asked if there was possibly any smaller tables available. They had to do a double take before they figured it out. We found a good sized corner table.

Remember I never said she had found her ID.

We were just coordinating here so her husband, She and I, would know where to be when everything "came together", meaning she found her ID. She then called security to help her find her backpack.

As a pause, please remember that this is a resign from a morning no-sign on a redraw due to the fact that they did not tell title how they wanted title to reflect their recent marriage.

Further, this was a California signing on Massachusetts property, an "attorney by phone" signing. I occasionally kept the attorney up to date.

So, Finally, All 3 people are at the glass triangle, but the wife still has no ID. The Mass. Attorney asked if I could sign based upon my recollection of her ID from the morning no-sign?!?!??!

Finally, they suggest that we go to their apartment because she has her passport there. I said OK, lets go! But that I do need copies of their ID's to return with the docs.

They said they had no way to make copies at home. Google people with no tech at home?!? But he did have a scan on his computer. They could print the scan at Google and show me the original at home. I said OK!

For the next half hour they could not figure out how to email a JPG to a Google printer. I told them to email it to me. At this point, the Gal sharply stated that there was no problem because she is in charge of "tying up loose ends". This from the person that has called security to find her ID.

So they said I should follow them to their apartment. I said OK, but, I do not know where their parked and I have their address and a GPS, so I will just meet them their. They said OK, see you there. I walked to my car and as I was starting my engine I saw them both whiz by on bicycles. How on earth is a mobile notary going to follow them when they are riding bikes? (clueless?)

So as I arrive to their apartment they call me and say that security has found her ID and where do we want to meet? I tell them that I have just arrived at the apartment, so they agree to come home.

I wait and as they open I see a 250sqft place filled with mattresses, cushions, pillows, dirty clothes and a "table" that I would barely use to hold a plant.

I call the attorney, we do the signing on the plant holder, they pay more attention to their "designer" chips and dip than the paperwork and I get the hell out of dodge!

When you use Google you are supporting this.

Reply by HisHughness on 7/19/11 6:54am
Msg #390115

Uh, Mark...are you sure you're a signing agent?

I just googled you, and didn't get any hits.

Reply by Mark/SanJose on 7/19/11 7:09am
Msg #390116

Why shoud you n/m

Reply by Mark/SanJose on 7/19/11 7:21am
Msg #390118

Being Googleable is not a Qualification of Signing Agent

Actually, even my best-man has never been able to find me "online" (I told him how).

This is not a problem. It is a matter of simply choosing to not blather everything about myself, unretractably, to millions of people I do not know.

I am a Signing Agent and have been for many years.

Sorry for misspelling Should.

Reply by HisHughness on 7/19/11 7:23am
Msg #390120

Joke, Mark, joke. Unwad your underpants. n/m

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 7/19/11 7:25am
Msg #390121

I saw a snippet on TV some time ago about Google

The powers that be want their employees to have fun and relax at work and look forward to coming to work every day. To say their work environment is unique is putting it mildly.

As for this..."The Mass. Attorney asked if I could sign based upon my recollection of her ID from the morning no-sign?!?!??! "

That attorney may have had a valid point. Had you already recorded her ID from the morning in your journal? If so, and it's the same person, you could have run with it.

Sounds like you put a lot of time and patience into this signing..how you kept a straight face through it all is beyond me. Hope your fee reflected all the "above and beyond" you went through.

Bet you slept good after that marathon!!

Reply by Mark Shea on 7/19/11 7:40am
Msg #390122

Re: I saw a snippet on TV some time ago about Google

You type much faster than I, Cool.

Remember, there was a morning no-sign due to ID, Vesting and Mass. Notary errors.

ID was not the issue, except she lost it, for a while.

I had not record the ID initially, because the docs did not match. I did not suspect any problem, It just had to be right.

In California, "Personally Known" is no longer acceptable. If I sign my closest Friend, 3 days in a row, I have to see his ID each time.

I had not recorded the data from her ID in the morning because as soon as I had it to compare with the docs I knew we had issues.

This is why my story only begins with the time that I knew we could actually sign, albeit painfully.

Reply by jba/fl on 7/19/11 7:49am
Msg #390123

Re: I saw a snippet on TV some time ago about Google

I think you had more patience than I might have, unless they left me on the playground with security keeping track of my wanderings so that they could find me when they returned. Sometimes they need a little inconveniencing as well - LOL

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 7/19/11 7:52am
Msg #390124

"unless they left me on the playground with security "

ROFL Jules...why can I so picture that??...LOL

Reply by Mark/SanJose on 7/19/11 7:57am
Msg #390125

Sometimes We Need To do The Do

Partly I wanted to show my part of our common abuse.
Partly I wanted to show crazy is not limited to one place.
Partly I wanted to show we all have commonality and community.

Reply by jba/fl on 7/19/11 9:19am
Msg #390138

What I want to know: did you use the slide Mark? n/m

Reply by Mark/SanJose on 7/19/11 8:23am
Msg #390126

No Such Luck

Had 2 more after, got home at midnight.

Reply by MW/VA on 7/19/11 8:28am
Msg #390127

Thanks for the story, Mark. It sounds surreal, but I can

picture the situation. I don't know that I would have hung in there that long, but you stayed with it to get the job done. I hope the rest of your day went better than that one! LOL