Office Debate: The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty (pandemic)

Madrox

Vaya Con Dio
BGOL Investor
I feel nothing for corporate Real Estate because no one wants to go to a huge state of the art building only to be confined to a gottdamned cubicle! I saw office buildings getting thrown up in downtown D.C. like shit was sweet and after the pandemic...Poof! Shits were empty. You know what was in demand? Housing. Those fuckers kept building offices and then the greedy developers kept making everything "luxury." Let them suffer just like the zombie corporations that kept being propped up. Let all of this shit fall.

Right... fuck off with those new office buildings and build more housing ffs.
 

godofwine

Supreme Porn Poster - Ret
BGOL Investor
I keep telling people generation Z is going to fight you tooth and nail not to come back into the office. Also, these corporations need to realize things have changed. I feel sorry for corporate Real Estate, but it is what it is.
I feel you. They don't give a shit about Corporate America and corporate real estate.

They are trying to live their best and happiest life and they are quick to quit a job that doesn't give them what they want or tries to press on them the old ways when the old ways aren't better

If all goes to plan, my retirement date is May 15th 2030. This is how many days I got left as of today

 

godofwine

Supreme Porn Poster - Ret
BGOL Investor
I feel nothing for corporate Real Estate because no one wants to go to a huge state of the art building only to be confined to a gottdamned cubicle! I saw office buildings getting thrown up in downtown D.C. like shit was sweet and after the pandemic...Poof! Shits were empty. You know what was in demand? Housing. Those fuckers kept building offices and then the greedy developers kept making everything "luxury." Let them suffer just like the zombie corporations that kept being propped up. Let all of this shit fall.
Exactly. Fuck them

The problem with real estate developers and multi-state real estate developers especially is that they do not care.

They will have a business or business space empty for months or years when all they had to do was lower the rent for the tenant in that spot by $500 or $1,000 a month and tack it on at the end. Instead, the tenant left.

Now if it was a local developer they are affected by not getting that rent every month. But a multi-state developer doesn't give a shit they lose $1,000 like I lost a quarter down my couch

Now that they are feeling the heat because they overdeveloped and now don't have any tenants, fuck them
 

Dannyblueyes

Aka Illegal Danny
BGOL Investor
I feel nothing for corporate Real Estate because no one wants to go to a huge state of the art building only to be confined to a gottdamned cubicle! I saw office buildings getting thrown up in downtown D.C. like shit was sweet and after the pandemic...Poof! Shits were empty. You know what was in demand? Housing. Those fuckers kept building offices and then the greedy developers kept making everything "luxury." Let them suffer just like the zombie corporations that kept being propped up. Let all of this shit fall.

About 10 years ago I did the audio for a live interview between Bob Gurley from benchmark capital and a reporter from The Wall Street journal.

Gurley said that when venture capital steps in one or two million companies become 10 and 20 million companies overnight. These companies use that money to lease expensive office space in the financial district.

Since the real estate market was white hot at the time the agents locked these companies into 10-year terms. Then they used these deals as a reason to raise the price for everyone who followed.

Gurley foresaw a day when capital would be hard to get and a real estate bubble would pop. He was right! Covid showed that many of these "successful" companies were hemorrhaging money and kept the float by loans. Take away that money in the whole system falls apart.
 

Dannyblueyes

Aka Illegal Danny
BGOL Investor
I feel you. They don't give a shit about Corporate America and corporate real estate.

They are trying to live their best and happiest life and they are quick to quit a job that doesn't give them what they want or tries to press on them the old ways when the old ways aren't better

If all goes to plan, my retirement date is May 15th 2030. This is how many days I got left as of today


Due to years of heavy drinking, poor money management, and disastrous marriages my retirement date is whenever they put me a box.

So now my career goal is to enjoy my work as much as possible. Strike that perfect balance between loving what I do and having people love me for it.

Glad to see gen z has it right from the jump.
 

tpotda

Rising Star
Registered
Due to years of heavy drinking, poor money management, and disastrous marriages my retirement date is whenever they put me a box.

So now my career goal is to enjoy my work as much as possible. Strike that perfect balance between loving what I do and having people love me for it.

Glad to see gen z has it right from the jump.

Is it realistic to DJ into your 50s and beyond?
 

LordSinister

One Punch Mayne
Super Moderator
How the fuck does spend upwards of 2 hours in traffic make you more productive? Anyone that slacks at home will slack in the office.

The problem is corporations know most people are trash so they want to drag good employees in to micromanage them to take up the slack. My wife is dealing with this now. Doing the job of three people, and having the new hires constantly interrupting her because she is the only one willing to help.
 

crossovernegro

Rising Star
BGOL Investor
Wow, that Bell Labs building in Holmdel, NJ.....I worked there for 12 years (started in the mail room working with Randall from "Clerks"). Place was like a small city. Was one of the workplaces I enjoyed going to, even if I didn't like the job I was doing at any particular time.

She left out the part about it no longer being at all connected to Bell Labs except for historical purposes (lotta history). Now it's a bunch of companies in there and the whole mini mall shit on the first couple floors and a driving range on the outside.



 
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