{"id":110,"date":"2008-06-05T05:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/06\/05\/why-im-not-moving-office-spaces\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T05:55:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T10:55:44","slug":"why-im-not-moving-office-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"why i&#8217;m not moving office spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I follow Joel Spolsky&#8217;s blog\/news site, <a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\" title=\"opens in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joelonsoftware.com<\/a>. His most recent addition is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2008\/06\/02.html\" title=\"opens in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adventures in Office Space<\/a>&#8220;. Apparently, they&#8217;ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek last December for a systems administration position. They flew me up, put me up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com\/w_times_square\/so.aqf?PS=PS_aa_MidAtlantic_Google_w_times_square_042808_NAD_FM\" title=\"it's worth it - the hotel was a blast to stay in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W<\/a> on Times Square, and reimbursed my food and parking garage fees for leaving my truck at RDU for a couple days. All-in-all, it was a fun two days.<\/p>\n<p>After my interview on Wednesday, I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/cirquedusoleil.com\" title=\"opens in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cirque du Soleil<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/CirqueDuSoleil\/en\/showstickets\/wintuk\/intro\/intro\" title=\"Wintuk's main page - opens in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wintuk<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I did not quite fit their employee model, because I was not offered the position. (Joel relayed the interview results to me directly, and indicated that it was not a technical issue, but that the personality fit didn&#8217;t seem to be there.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still interested, potentially, in getting a job in &#8220;real&#8221; city (not that Raleigh is not a &#8216;city&#8217;, but it&#8217;s not the same as a San Francisco or a New York), where walking to work seems normal, but for now what I&#8217;m doing with HP&#8217;s professional services is pretty fun and challenging.<\/p>\n<p>So, my hat is off to Joel and his crew, because they must be doing something right to be needing more office area. Best of luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I follow Joel Spolsky&#8217;s blog\/news site, joelonsoftware.com. His most recent addition is &#8220;Adventures in Office Space&#8220;. Apparently, they&#8217;ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place. The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=110\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">why i&#8217;m not moving office spaces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}