I went over to the Circuit city corporate headquarters building this evening to purchase a desk for my home office.
The place was very weird...I should have took some pictures inside the office. The security gates were opened, and at the receptionist's desk was a cashier. The building is open to anybody, and anything can be taken, and people were taking everything that wasn't bolted down, and even stuff that was. The amazing thing is the way people were just raiding the stuff. The offices were just simply abandoned, with supplies and materials still there like they were expecting to work tomorrow. If someone wanted a file cabinet though, and it was filled with paperwork, they would just empty the paperwork out of the cabinet onto the floor, and cart off the cabinet, leaving the huge pile of paper. Even the kitchen was raided, and people were going through the kitchen utensils. Every so often, you'd see wires hanging from a hole in the ceiling where someone took a liking to a light fixture, and unbolted it from the ceiling!
I went over there to see what I could land, and I sort of had an unfair advantage, since my company had put some of the AV equipment in, and I knew where it all was...What I didn't know was the insanely cheap prices they were selling the stuff at! I found this wireless microphone system in a closet, and carted it down to the cashier....$150 and it was all mine! Nobody knew about the hideaway projectors that retracted into the ceiling in some of the meeting rooms. I shorted together some wires in the control room, the hideaway lift came down, and yep, projector! I unbolted the projector and took it down to the cashier yeehaw! $200!
One of the interesting things I saw though was walking into the CEO's office was interesting. Taped to the window was an article I think from Forbes magazine about the top 10 worst managers, and his name was on it. Written on the whiteboard in the office someone wrote "You are standing in the office of the(expletive)that ran this company in the ground!"
The microphones will be donated to my church...we are in desparate need of some wireless microphones down in the fellowship hall. The little NEC DLP projector is going in my own living room to be my television!
The place was very weird...I should have took some pictures inside the office. The security gates were opened, and at the receptionist's desk was a cashier. The building is open to anybody, and anything can be taken, and people were taking everything that wasn't bolted down, and even stuff that was. The amazing thing is the way people were just raiding the stuff. The offices were just simply abandoned, with supplies and materials still there like they were expecting to work tomorrow. If someone wanted a file cabinet though, and it was filled with paperwork, they would just empty the paperwork out of the cabinet onto the floor, and cart off the cabinet, leaving the huge pile of paper. Even the kitchen was raided, and people were going through the kitchen utensils. Every so often, you'd see wires hanging from a hole in the ceiling where someone took a liking to a light fixture, and unbolted it from the ceiling!
I went over there to see what I could land, and I sort of had an unfair advantage, since my company had put some of the AV equipment in, and I knew where it all was...What I didn't know was the insanely cheap prices they were selling the stuff at! I found this wireless microphone system in a closet, and carted it down to the cashier....$150 and it was all mine! Nobody knew about the hideaway projectors that retracted into the ceiling in some of the meeting rooms. I shorted together some wires in the control room, the hideaway lift came down, and yep, projector! I unbolted the projector and took it down to the cashier yeehaw! $200!
One of the interesting things I saw though was walking into the CEO's office was interesting. Taped to the window was an article I think from Forbes magazine about the top 10 worst managers, and his name was on it. Written on the whiteboard in the office someone wrote "You are standing in the office of the(expletive)that ran this company in the ground!"
The microphones will be donated to my church...we are in desparate need of some wireless microphones down in the fellowship hall. The little NEC DLP projector is going in my own living room to be my television!
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