Microsoft tries to dump S.F. office space amid tech industry cost-cutting::px-captcha

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    It is a non-trivial process. Commercial offices and residential apartments have very different code requirements.

    I’m all for doing it. I work from home myself and don’t know that I’ll ever take a job that requires a commute if I can help it.

    We should be realistic about it, however, and acknowledge that it’s not as simple as throwing up a few walls and doors and calling it a day.

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      111 months ago

      You’re right, there’s more to it than hanging extra doors. It’s going to cost money, which was my original statement, owners won’t do the renovations because it’s “too expensive” and keeping the status quo is cheaper.

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                  211 months ago

                  I got started with Autocad drawings of precast concrete buildings. Now I work for a machine shop that refurbishes big valves, and it’s equal parts boring and amazing. Some days I don’t do anything at all. And some days someone will drop some broken and bent part of something on my desk, and say “Can you figure out what this used to look like, and make a cad model of it, so we can get this fixed?”

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                  111 months ago

                  My job mostly consists of “Here’s 40 pounds of bent and broken stuff. Figure out what it used to look like, and make us models and drawings of the parts.”