Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin...
by protomyth on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:53PM
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This one would be pretty vile, but I bet we have folks who seen just as bad.
I once worked at a place that once powered their campus by an oil burning generator. They stored the oil in a large underground bunker. The bunker was a concrete affair. Eventually the oil plant was decommissioned and the bunker was cleaned up.
Some [censored] person decided they needed more office space and this bunker would be great. They completed the tunnel from a nearby building (they had a large underground) and proceeded to build a false floor and put in a box for offices. Now, concrete will "bleed" oil for a while even if sealed, so the solution to that was install fans that would push fresh air between the office area wall and the concrete wall. Inside their new space, they put a cube farm. Sadly, cellphones and radios didn't work in the new space as it was underground with a nice reinforced (rebar) concrete roof. Having a constant wind noise in a cube underground is a bit surreal.
I once worked at a place that once powered their campus by an oil burning generator. They stored the oil in a large underground bunker. The bunker was a concrete affair. Eventually the oil plant was decommissioned and the bunker was cleaned up.
Some [censored] person decided they needed more office space and this bunker would be great. They completed the tunnel from a nearby building (they had a large underground) and proceeded to build a false floor and put in a box for offices. Now, concrete will "bleed" oil for a while even if sealed, so the solution to that was install fans that would push fresh air between the office area wall and the concrete wall. Inside their new space, they put a cube farm. Sadly, cellphones and radios didn't work in the new space as it was underground with a nice reinforced (rebar) concrete roof. Having a constant wind noise in a cube underground is a bit surreal.