#missing mug

A good-hearted fellow mug advocate, audio engineer Andy Huether, posted this photo in a Slack channel here yesterday. That squirrel! 😍 

Andy noted: “have you attended an event or meeting in Studio 1 in the past, oh say, couple years? have you been missing a mug and/or sam adams commemorative glass for a curiously similar amount of time? perhaps these clues can be put together. perhaps you will find your mug in the 4th floor kitchen. if not, maybe they will find use holding others’ coffee and/or tea and/or cocoa and/or boston lager.”

This is an exclusive peek inside our Slack channels. It’s a happy mug reunion story!

***NPR employees’ propensity for misplacing mugs is how this blog got started 4+ years ago, by the way ... 

These are some pretty cool mugs:

And for the full effect of Kasia’s beloved Ali Wong mug:

Note: This mug went missing at the same time last year (!!), so tech reporter and blog host Alina Selyukh just reused her old sign. The sign worked (again)! 

This update was spotted last week (I redacted the contact info, btw).  

SCREENGRAB: Maybe it won’t surprise y’all that my favorite part of @nprmusic‘s newest Tiny Desk Concert is in the very beginning, when a Blue Man swipes the mug off blogger @camilashares' desk, and she captures in one grand side-eye the feeling of everyone who has ever had a mug go missing at the office. EVER.

But the whole video is really fun. Like Bob Boilen says over the ending credits, “your day won’t get any better than this, I guarantee you.” WATCH: