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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Re: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Post by lostlogin »

Swizec wrote: post #5
sonograph wrote: post #2

It is being demolished now. The company doing the demolition must be very proud of destroying things, because they make drone & time-lapsed videos of it: https://johlerdemolition.com/portfolio-items/motorola-schaum... Edit: I meant this in a positive tone, not a negative. I'm glad they take pride in their work.

It’s their job to destroy things, why wouldn’t they be proud? I’m proud too when I refactor bad code.

Are you proud enough to provide drone footage of the refactor?

Re: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Post by geodel »

I used to live at International Village apartments near Moto headquarters. In those days MotoRazr craze starting to fade as IPhone was just launched. I remember layoffs were started and bunch of folks were laid off in teams I worked with.

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Post by vidanay »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #7
bigbillheck wrote: post #3

What an absolute waste.

The Zurich building on the campus is pleasant on the eyes even thought they are a not so good employer, and they have a Top Golf now (some /s intended).

The Zurich building looks like mega sized shipping containers. (I know - that is the intended design look). My aunt worked for Zuirich for almost 20 years (in the towers), never heard anything extraordinarily bad other than normal employee grumblings.

Re: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Post by ipv6ipv4 »

jameshart wrote: post #17

I love the tone of this, it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization. “there were old wall slogans inside that must have been added to motivate and inspire the employees” … “ the tall building had several brick structures on the lower main level. He suspected that those structures probably had plants and ferns in them so that important business clients and…

HR wall slogans are cringey when still drying on the wall. They are even cringier in a ruin.

Re: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Post by Apocryphon »

geodel wrote: post #9
Swizec wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s their job to destroy things, why wouldn’t they be proud? I’m proud too when I refactor bad code.

Deleted 5000 lines of code from a project yesterday! And I am feeling very good about it :)

One weird trick to increase code coverage.

Re: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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Post by jameshart »

ipv6ipv4 wrote: post #26
jameshart wrote: post #17

I love the tone of this, it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization. “there were old wall slogans inside that must have been added to motivate and inspire the employees” … “ the tall building had several brick structures on the lower main level. He suspected that those structures probably had plants and ferns in them so that important business clients and…

HR wall slogans are cringey when still drying on the wall. They are even cringier in a ruin.

Gives you another perspective on the hieroglyphs on walls in ancient Egypt though if you imagine them being put there by enthusiastic religious branding consultants, and inducing just as much eye rolling from the citizens of the day…
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