--- title: "Someone Reportedly Mailed a Live Squirrel to Meta, Where It Sent an Employee to the Hospital" description: "An escaped squirrel wreaked havoc in a Meta office in Bangkok after an employee received the rodent in the mail." date: "2026-07-09" modified: "2026-07-09" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-squirrel-attack" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Meta" --- # Someone Reportedly Mailed a Live Squirrel to Meta, Where It Sent an Employee to the Hospital ![A colorful photo illustration featuring a bushy-tailed squirrel.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock* We've been hearing plenty about how Meta's workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As [*Wired* reports](), a squirrel got loose inside one of the company's buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, after someone received it in the mail. It's unlikely the creature had plotted to infiltrate the Meta office, but it coincidentally made it just in time to [plunder the snacks that executives]() had vowed to give back to their dispirited employees. For a long and chaotic twenty minutes, the squirrel wreaked havoc as it bolted around the office before finally being caught, according to the reporting. The bizarro incident had at least one human casualty: a worker who got scratched on the finger by the rodent while trying to capture it. The rodent may be apprehended, but its exploits will live on infamy. It's already becoming workplace lore. *New York Times* reporter Mike Isaac, who [first broke the story](), wrote on X that "employees are predictably having a field day with it internally." One worker "created an AI-generated video mimicking an HR training course on squirrel-related office best practices," Isaac said. Another edited a meme of an [infamous Facebook safety notification]() so it read, "Marked Safe From Meta Squirrel Attack Today," underneath a blue flag icon. For demoralized Meta employees who are reeling from their bosses [surveilling their computers to train AI agents](), not to mentioning [firing thousands of their colleagues](), maybe a squirrel attack was a welcome change of pace. Who sent the squirrel — and why — is unclear. An internal memo obtained by *Wired* said that the delivery was accepted by an outside janitor, who in the aftermath was written up and vowed to ensure "such an incident does not recur." The employee who got nicked by the squirrel, meanwhile, was taken to a hospital for treatment. The squirrel's fate is unknown. **More on Meta:** [*Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()