This triggers all kinds of feelings, I actually had a pretty good time working there. It's one of those things that rush by like a rollercoaster when it's all happening, and you can't really grab a hold of it all. What stays, many many years later, is nothing but random snapshot memories, like a JPEG that gets saved and recompressed over and over again for the rest of your life. So this actually refreshed those moments a bit, seeing it like this. Instantly worried I had forgotten where I parked my car, which happened all the time back then, when you'd jump from meetings between buildings. I keep hoping to be allowed some kind of walk-through again, maybe, if I ever get back up there.
Did you develop anything of note while you were there? What was developed at this building? I wonder if the building design had any influence on how certain products turned out.
I didn't work for Microsoft but had a family member work there (I work for a well known payroll company thats the same corporate drab). These images are giving me PTSD and depression because my current arrangement of working remotely with a nice monitor and chair with a laid back team will eventually be gone one day and I will be thrown back into the fire. Im only 10 years into my career having tinkered with computers since 6 years old and I don't know how people get through decades of working in places like this. :/
