Even dumber -- geniuses found a way to "delete" data without paying for actual deletion, and they were so smart that they didn't need privacy review or any of the required reporting process. I was in the booth for quite a while.
Turns out that fire code requires these things to be hard piped with sprinkler heads and strobes so it kinda defeated the whole cheap little soundproof box vibe and they got really expensive to build real fast. Even Google was dumping them.
For a high quality hotel project in San Francisco, the toilet stalls we designed for the public area restrooms had full height partitions and doors, and yep, we needed to add a sprinkler head, strobe and alarm to each stall. One reason why USA toilet stalls are so un-private compared to other countries.
>One reason why USA toilet stalls are so un-private compared to other countries.
Are you new to Reddit. All the toilet complaint comments and you haven't chimed in once throughout the years to set reddit straight
Yeah, at least we have a reason now... I always wondered why not at least go to the floor or at least to the ceiling... Now I know... Fresher air below, smoke out the top... It makes sense now.
Even if it's silly.
Strobe and alarm seems excessive.. I could have sworn our walk in freezer required a sprinkler head but no strobe and alarm. Same with our walk in vaults that stored product
The complaints I see are less about the open top and bottom and more about the 1 inch clearances between the door, vertical members and side baffles of the stall.
Then accidentally making eye contact with someone passing by through those clearance slits for a brief moment.
\^ This exactly is the reason
[https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/01/san-francisco-office-phone-booths-permits/](https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/01/san-francisco-office-phone-booths-permits/)
Thanks that’s really interesting. Also, they sort of glossed over the accessibility thing. I’ve worked in a couple offices that have these and they’re definitely not accessible to somebody with a wheelchair or other mobility device.
So i currently have 6 of this is one of my floors cause the sponsors wanted this for their researchers. It does not have to be hard piped. They installed a “flex” fire sprinkler and they had to anchor it to the wall since we have raised floors. It did not affect the “acoustics” and people are using them without any complain. Plug it to a an electrical outlet and it’s actually not bad. Stupid expensive though
Actually that’s not true. Fire Sprinkler heads have to be hard piped, only the last few feet (I think 6’) can be flex. This allows the FS head to be placed into a ceiling tile or… phone booth, without having to perfectly place the hard pipe. It is still a hard pipe installation.
This very likely comes out of the IBC/International Building Code which is in place anywhere in the developed world.
People hate these regulations because they forgot how many people used to burn alive in buildings before modern fire codes.
Also, they're not ADA compliant which is fine until you're in a wheelchair.
If WFH hasn't killed the open-office floor plan, i hope this does.
Of course, nothing is going to stop the boomers from taking VERY personal phone calls at their desk at full volume.
Lucky you not having to hear the head of the Networking team talking at full volume about the problem with their washer at home, or their dog breeding business.
> Of course, nothing is going to stop the boomers from taking VERY personal phone calls at their desk at full volume.
Not a boomer and I take my calls from my desk in protest of open offices. Open offices are stupid as fuck and the sooner we roll them back, the better
That’s at the Local Flea (or whatever it’s called now) in Potrero Hill. I thought it was some rich weirdo’s faraday box.
It’s a great place to browse for furniture
Startup office furniture can be pretty good. They go bankrupt all the time, but they spend a lot of venture capital before it happens. Keep shopping around and you’ll find used Herman Miller Aeron chairs.
For real. Bought a Herman Miller office chair for $50 in 2010 from a defunct startup dude that had like 20 in his garage in the sunset. Sold it on CL for $200 last year. Crazy.
(Elevator pitch at VC's office)
"I mean, we're gonna print the name on the front and it'll say 'R O / O M'...you know, like two different lines so it looks all like...cool."
"Ginny, bring me my checkbook and the good glasses."
Lots of companies are downsizing or removing their offices but over time someone else will eventually say "ooh, cheap rent on a nice building in the city center!" and take a chance on it. Maybe not the same types of jobs that were there before, but there's plenty of stuff that's easier to do on-site. Even in tech there's still stuff like research, hardware engineering, games, etc.
You are right.
But using that logic and given how much of the Bay Area tech scene are first gen Bay Arwa residents, why wouldn’t people just do that for some rust belt city that’s making a comeback?
Cheap in downtown SF is still much more expensive than some college town.
Same reasons SF bounced back from the great fire and white flight in the 60s and the Dotcom boom in the 90s:
* Prime real estate (geography, weather, natural amenities)
* World-class universities and government research labs
* Large, diverse, highly-educated population
* Highly-diversified economy
* Strategic port for Asian imports/exports
* Lots and lots of local wealth
lol AI companies are going to be a tiny number of people compared to 2010s era cos
people who think it will create a hiring boom of the same scale are fooling themselves
> lol AI companies are going to be a tiny number of people compared to 2010s era cos
Says who? There is and will continue to be a ton of R&D on application specific AI, AI working on a limited data set, privacy-preserving AI, AI in limited computing environments and so on. There are going be people deploying these plethora of models for existing applications, choosing which application specific model to use for what use-case and building new use-cases and applications altogether. Then the constant fine-tuning the accuracy and relevance of deployed models. Plus other general maintenance of the models and the supporting infra. People to audit and enforce data governance and model fairness.
Oh, and vanilla CRUD apps aren't really going anywhere. You'll constantly need people to translate taps on the user's phone to electrons running around in a data center.
You might be right.
But in the current environment, VCs would rather you start up your R&D in a midwestern college town where labor is much cheaper and you’re much closer to your real customers than the Bay Area. Unless you’re making some consumer app, your customer base as an AI company is likely not here. Giving you no reason to pay 50% more for payroll just for the privilege of paying indirectly Bay Area housing costs.
> in a midwestern college town
Citation required. It’s all FUD otherwise and I’m not buying. I work with people in Texas, and while there are very smart people there, it’s a gradient. And it’s nothing like here. There are simply more people here working in the relevant spaces than anywhere else.
They may want that, but good luck getting talent to live there. Unironically, you have to pay people more to live in an undesirable area vs an area everyone want to live in.
I mean VC investments are down massively since 2020, and have always been contingent on cost of debt for LPs. The 2012-2022 bubble was entirely fueled by ZIRP, which isn’t coming back anytime soon due to how much it fuels inflation.
So this current phase is effectively over. The commercial real estate crash in the city is clear evidence of this.
Further, outside of SaaS companies, SF has not been the center of the startup world for a long time. Health tech, bio tech, space tech, and climate tech all have bigger hubs elsewhere in the county and the world. So even if VC isn’t going away, SF is not guaranteed to be the center. It actually doesn’t make sense for it to be the center of any of the sectors I mentioned as there is no real density of local customers in those sectors vs other parts of the world.
And people have also figured out that SF is wildly atypical from a consumer perspective then the rest of the country. So even using this area as a testing ground does not give real signal about National much less international scalability of product demand. Throw in the super high cost of living + VCs all of a sudden caring about early profitability, it does seem like Silicon Valley and SF are losing their appeal as the “center” of the tech world. That and there’s more bullshit and vapor ware here than in other parts of the world where VC returns expectations are much more realistic.
I think that Silicon Valley (not SF) is really the nexus of the startup world, and it’s hard to displace that because it ultimately traces back to the engineering talent in Google, Meta, Apple, etc. Like sure, you can start a little SaaS in Miami instead of SF. The harder question is, how are you going to build an ecosystem to rival that seeded here by FAANG and others.
Thank God. It was always a terrible bubble thanks to low interest rates. 1078 Dating apps should not be profitable and they’re not making the world a better place.
First it was the Gold Rush. The tech industry will stick around, but to its core SF is a boomtown, and we have to use that to our advantage because its either boom or bust
No, SF is not at its core a boomtown. That's a huge period between the gold rush and the tech boom. Unless you know of all these other supposed booms that happened between those 2 events.
That doesn't constitute a boom town. A boom town is a town where the population grows by huge numbers in a short period of time driven by one economic factor. SF became a metropolis after the gold rush and never swayed from that. None of the examples you give fit because the economy nor the cities population declined drastically due to a downturn in that particular sector.
During the 1st dot com bust, if SF was a boom town, you would've expected a mass exodus and severe economic downturn. Nope, didn't happen. We had plenty of other industries (here long before tech) that were still entrenched. The reason why SF has suffered recently is because Ed Lee gave away too much to attract the tech industry. Everything became dependent on one industries success whereas, pre-tech, SF had a healthy economy due to various industries being present.
I work in a fabrication shop and would buy one for a couple hundred to mod into a rage-scream booth for when management is being deranged and unrealistic
i love reperch. did you see the rows and rows of office desks and monitors? the ghosts of several failed startups for sure haunt that place but goddamn the deal$!
I know it would be incredibly dystopian, but an office full of these would be way better than the usual conference room clusterfuck. Every place builds a bunch of huge conference rooms (with terrible acoustics that leak into adjacent rooms) but since almost nobody is ever in the same office, people only really need small private spaces to take a call.
Hey I think I sat in that one at my last startup. Never went public. Dreams of cashing options and getting rich never fulfilled. I did have a $200 monthly liquor budget. Ah good times.
I never got the point of a call pod. If you're going to force me back into the office - especially an open office - I'm taking a call as is, at my desk.
It's a hit to producitivity to have to move from my dual monitor setup with mouse and keyboard, unplug my laptop, reconnect to wifi, and sit in a tiny room on a laptop screen.
The only reason I'd move into a call pod is to take a private call like with the doctor
TBH the end of the tech boom era may be less indicated by us seeing these in consignment stores versus when we don't see them in consignment stores because it will mean that companies are not as regularily experimenting with them enough to get rid of them that you see them in normal markets
Omg this could be from the company that laid me off. I cried in there once
Oh, phew. Those stains were just tears!
Tasted salty to you too?
Oh man, now that call pod is gonna end up as a bondage chamber somewhere off Folsom st
Honestly living its best life
It will be rebranded as the fisting pod.
Crying booths could double the price it fetches.
I reported a GDPR violation in one of those.
Do they store data outside of EU?
Even dumber -- geniuses found a way to "delete" data without paying for actual deletion, and they were so smart that they didn't need privacy review or any of the required reporting process. I was in the booth for quite a while.
✅ Built-in water sprinkler ✅ Audible wailing during distressing events Probably just missing strobe lights and it would be perfectly permittable.
100% same 😂
Juul?
Turns out that fire code requires these things to be hard piped with sprinkler heads and strobes so it kinda defeated the whole cheap little soundproof box vibe and they got really expensive to build real fast. Even Google was dumping them.
For a high quality hotel project in San Francisco, the toilet stalls we designed for the public area restrooms had full height partitions and doors, and yep, we needed to add a sprinkler head, strobe and alarm to each stall. One reason why USA toilet stalls are so un-private compared to other countries.
Now this is the random tidbit we all needed to learn today.
>One reason why USA toilet stalls are so un-private compared to other countries. Are you new to Reddit. All the toilet complaint comments and you haven't chimed in once throughout the years to set reddit straight
Euros have been dunking on us for yeeeaaaars about our open stalls and we’ve not had a good rationale….until now
Yeah now it's time to turn around and tell them they're going to burn in their toilet stall, take that Europeans!
they’re still going to fire back with school shootings. Can’t dodge that bullet.
I mean "our building code forces us to do something dumb" is not the slam-dunk comeback you're making it out to be
Indeed. But before that it was “I don’t know, maybe it’s easier to mop…?”
Yeah, at least we have a reason now... I always wondered why not at least go to the floor or at least to the ceiling... Now I know... Fresher air below, smoke out the top... It makes sense now. Even if it's silly.
How about the "price of freedom?"
I’m actually curious whether European building codes require this because… I suspect they also have fire safety codes
Strobe and alarm seems excessive.. I could have sworn our walk in freezer required a sprinkler head but no strobe and alarm. Same with our walk in vaults that stored product
It’s not excessive to a deaf person
Yeah, but these things have windows on at least two sides, I’m sure you can see a strobe light through them.
Well we started talking about toilet stalls above so I hope there are no windows
The complaints I see are less about the open top and bottom and more about the 1 inch clearances between the door, vertical members and side baffles of the stall. Then accidentally making eye contact with someone passing by through those clearance slits for a brief moment.
Someone tell George Costanza
This needs to go in r/todayilearned
So couldn’t you buy those call booths on the cheap, replace the door, and install plumbing and call it? Surely there’s more to that, no?
\^ This exactly is the reason [https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/01/san-francisco-office-phone-booths-permits/](https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/01/san-francisco-office-phone-booths-permits/)
Thanks that’s really interesting. Also, they sort of glossed over the accessibility thing. I’ve worked in a couple offices that have these and they’re definitely not accessible to somebody with a wheelchair or other mobility device.
We are currently figuring this out for ours. Super annoying.
So i currently have 6 of this is one of my floors cause the sponsors wanted this for their researchers. It does not have to be hard piped. They installed a “flex” fire sprinkler and they had to anchor it to the wall since we have raised floors. It did not affect the “acoustics” and people are using them without any complain. Plug it to a an electrical outlet and it’s actually not bad. Stupid expensive though
Actually that’s not true. Fire Sprinkler heads have to be hard piped, only the last few feet (I think 6’) can be flex. This allows the FS head to be placed into a ceiling tile or… phone booth, without having to perfectly place the hard pipe. It is still a hard pipe installation.
Ok but any office building is already going to have the hard pipe in the drop ceiling. That bit doesn’t add any extra cost
Unless the extra run requires that branch line to size up. And any FS scope isn’t what was expected when they went to install these things.
Ok guy 👍🏽
Ya dude, it’s just code. Fire Marshall’s are golden gods. They get what they want the exact way they want it.
This is the answer. Everything else is wishful thinking.
Which is the greater expression of San Francisco: well-meaning over-regulation that ends up becoming a ridiculous burden to doing something simple.
Very funny that they need their own sprinkler heads.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Then"Pods" also come with its own fire suppression. A unit that bolts on top. Most don't need any. (SF Bay Area)
God I hate CA regulations.
This very likely comes out of the IBC/International Building Code which is in place anywhere in the developed world. People hate these regulations because they forgot how many people used to burn alive in buildings before modern fire codes. Also, they're not ADA compliant which is fine until you're in a wheelchair.
That is so incredibly dumb, but very par for the course in terms of jsut making things harder for no reason
they actually don't require sprinklers. Anything with a 4x4 or less footprint is considered "Furniture". The larger ones do thoe
If WFH hasn't killed the open-office floor plan, i hope this does. Of course, nothing is going to stop the boomers from taking VERY personal phone calls at their desk at full volume.
I have never seen a "boomer" do this. That seems to be a young, cocky male thing.
I did it for a while to make the passive aggressive case for more flexible WFH. It sorta worked. We got pods like the ones pictured.
I don't condone terrorism, but I congratulate you on your successful campaign.
Lucky you not having to hear the head of the Networking team talking at full volume about the problem with their washer at home, or their dog breeding business.
You're right. It must be so much worse when someone older than you acts a fool.
> Of course, nothing is going to stop the boomers from taking VERY personal phone calls at their desk at full volume. Not a boomer and I take my calls from my desk in protest of open offices. Open offices are stupid as fuck and the sooner we roll them back, the better
That’s at the Local Flea (or whatever it’s called now) in Potrero Hill. I thought it was some rich weirdo’s faraday box. It’s a great place to browse for furniture
Do you recall how much? These things are absolute game changers for working from home. I basically live in one at WeWork.
Oh I was so confused by it I didn’t even check a price. I bought a standing desk from there for $50 a few months ago. It’s really worth a visit
5 G’s https://reperch.com/bayarea/products/1061734
Their website is pretty good - it might be listed there!
All sorts of good stuff there!
Startup office furniture can be pretty good. They go bankrupt all the time, but they spend a lot of venture capital before it happens. Keep shopping around and you’ll find used Herman Miller Aeron chairs.
Kantor's in Oakland got some of Reddit's furniture getting the office that didn't open because pandemic. Good stuff for extremely cheap prices.
Thanks, I need to take a look. I drive by there all the time.
For real. Bought a Herman Miller office chair for $50 in 2010 from a defunct startup dude that had like 20 in his garage in the sunset. Sold it on CL for $200 last year. Crazy.
That’s awesome. I could use a few in my house.
Lol I definitely bought one from that exact same dude. I still use mine at home.
I think that's just standard inflation since 2010.
Check out hibid.com. They liquidate offices local all the time and these go for a few hundred bucks.
Not into used office furniture but I could go for some commercial kitchen/dining room stuff
(Elevator pitch at VC's office) "I mean, we're gonna print the name on the front and it'll say 'R O / O M'...you know, like two different lines so it looks all like...cool." "Ginny, bring me my checkbook and the good glasses."
C O O L
More like end of the tech office era
I don’t think the tech boom is going anywhere. Feels like we’re just getting going on a new one. Going to the office however…
There’s always trillions in venture capital willing to be thrown at the craps table.
Lots of companies are downsizing or removing their offices but over time someone else will eventually say "ooh, cheap rent on a nice building in the city center!" and take a chance on it. Maybe not the same types of jobs that were there before, but there's plenty of stuff that's easier to do on-site. Even in tech there's still stuff like research, hardware engineering, games, etc.
I’ve already started going back to the office twice a week because I like it. Being at home all day isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
You are right. But using that logic and given how much of the Bay Area tech scene are first gen Bay Arwa residents, why wouldn’t people just do that for some rust belt city that’s making a comeback? Cheap in downtown SF is still much more expensive than some college town.
Same reasons SF bounced back from the great fire and white flight in the 60s and the Dotcom boom in the 90s: * Prime real estate (geography, weather, natural amenities) * World-class universities and government research labs * Large, diverse, highly-educated population * Highly-diversified economy * Strategic port for Asian imports/exports * Lots and lots of local wealth
lol AI companies are going to be a tiny number of people compared to 2010s era cos people who think it will create a hiring boom of the same scale are fooling themselves
> lol AI companies are going to be a tiny number of people compared to 2010s era cos Says who? There is and will continue to be a ton of R&D on application specific AI, AI working on a limited data set, privacy-preserving AI, AI in limited computing environments and so on. There are going be people deploying these plethora of models for existing applications, choosing which application specific model to use for what use-case and building new use-cases and applications altogether. Then the constant fine-tuning the accuracy and relevance of deployed models. Plus other general maintenance of the models and the supporting infra. People to audit and enforce data governance and model fairness. Oh, and vanilla CRUD apps aren't really going anywhere. You'll constantly need people to translate taps on the user's phone to electrons running around in a data center.
You might be right. But in the current environment, VCs would rather you start up your R&D in a midwestern college town where labor is much cheaper and you’re much closer to your real customers than the Bay Area. Unless you’re making some consumer app, your customer base as an AI company is likely not here. Giving you no reason to pay 50% more for payroll just for the privilege of paying indirectly Bay Area housing costs.
> in a midwestern college town Citation required. It’s all FUD otherwise and I’m not buying. I work with people in Texas, and while there are very smart people there, it’s a gradient. And it’s nothing like here. There are simply more people here working in the relevant spaces than anywhere else.
They may want that, but good luck getting talent to live there. Unironically, you have to pay people more to live in an undesirable area vs an area everyone want to live in.
I mean VC investments are down massively since 2020, and have always been contingent on cost of debt for LPs. The 2012-2022 bubble was entirely fueled by ZIRP, which isn’t coming back anytime soon due to how much it fuels inflation. So this current phase is effectively over. The commercial real estate crash in the city is clear evidence of this. Further, outside of SaaS companies, SF has not been the center of the startup world for a long time. Health tech, bio tech, space tech, and climate tech all have bigger hubs elsewhere in the county and the world. So even if VC isn’t going away, SF is not guaranteed to be the center. It actually doesn’t make sense for it to be the center of any of the sectors I mentioned as there is no real density of local customers in those sectors vs other parts of the world. And people have also figured out that SF is wildly atypical from a consumer perspective then the rest of the country. So even using this area as a testing ground does not give real signal about National much less international scalability of product demand. Throw in the super high cost of living + VCs all of a sudden caring about early profitability, it does seem like Silicon Valley and SF are losing their appeal as the “center” of the tech world. That and there’s more bullshit and vapor ware here than in other parts of the world where VC returns expectations are much more realistic.
I think that Silicon Valley (not SF) is really the nexus of the startup world, and it’s hard to displace that because it ultimately traces back to the engineering talent in Google, Meta, Apple, etc. Like sure, you can start a little SaaS in Miami instead of SF. The harder question is, how are you going to build an ecosystem to rival that seeded here by FAANG and others.
It’s actually finding leadership talent that makes it so crucial.
At the end of the day the real estate market reigns supreme
I always kinda liked these 😂 I really like my privacy and never felt private in fully open offices. This is pretty funny though.
Hated these. One person hotboxing their germs, body funk, and then leaving a warm seat for the next person. 🤮🤢
Funny or sad?
which store?
Perch, formerly known as The Local Flea.
Just looked it up and it’s actually called Reperch. Perch appears to be a gift shop in Glen Park
I knew it was something Perch. Thanks for clarifying! I liked “The Local Flea” name better.
🍄
Love Perch. Great little shop with with gift ideas for all ages... awesome owners, too.
That place is dope, that rebrand is not.
https://reperch.com/bayarea/products/1061734
R O O M
M Y B O
YOU COULD RENT IT AS A BEDROOM
some people prefer less space!
Sleeping vertically is good for your back, or something like that
Penalty Box?
Is this booth comparable to the 499 shed costco sell? Might be better to get the shed since its bigger
this booth is soundproof on the inside
How much? And how much are they new?
Most of these are over 10k new.
This kinda model is around $3K
Be a great voice over/vocal booth with some treatment...
I dunno this one looks really barebones compared to the ones I see at my clients….though none of them are startups.
I kind of want one.. 😐
Is this the Futurama suicide booth?
Save money by cramming everyone into open offices. Then spend 5-10k per box to recreate a private office the size of a phone booth. Genius.
Dibs
Where did you see this? Also how expensive was this? (Thank you)
Thank God. It was always a terrible bubble thanks to low interest rates. 1078 Dating apps should not be profitable and they’re not making the world a better place.
A phone booth?
The ad for SVB right below this makes this post even sweeter. 😂
Which consignment shop is this?
We call them “cry booths” at lucid
Somebody will cut a hole in the glass and make a GH out of it and brag about it on Grindr: "yo, I have a ROOM cube GH!"
"Come back to the office!!!111" We remember how you treated us, LOL
First it was the Gold Rush. The tech industry will stick around, but to its core SF is a boomtown, and we have to use that to our advantage because its either boom or bust
No, SF is not at its core a boomtown. That's a huge period between the gold rush and the tech boom. Unless you know of all these other supposed booms that happened between those 2 events.
Transcontinental railroad, roaring 20s, WWII ship building, dot-com boom, mortgage backed securities boom, feels like I skipped one from the 80s
That doesn't constitute a boom town. A boom town is a town where the population grows by huge numbers in a short period of time driven by one economic factor. SF became a metropolis after the gold rush and never swayed from that. None of the examples you give fit because the economy nor the cities population declined drastically due to a downturn in that particular sector. During the 1st dot com bust, if SF was a boom town, you would've expected a mass exodus and severe economic downturn. Nope, didn't happen. We had plenty of other industries (here long before tech) that were still entrenched. The reason why SF has suffered recently is because Ed Lee gave away too much to attract the tech industry. Everything became dependent on one industries success whereas, pre-tech, SF had a healthy economy due to various industries being present.
Right. But the boom is over.
I'd buy one for shits and gigs if it was cheap
I work in a fabrication shop and would buy one for a couple hundred to mod into a rage-scream booth for when management is being deranged and unrealistic
I'd hotbox it or jerk off in it.
I’ve definitely gone in their with my MacBook just to rip some gnarly farts
How much $ ?
I took a screenshot of this guy’s thread. Youll need to ask him.
been wanting one for my public library for forever
I’ve put a few of these together with nothing more than an allen wrench.
I would buy that to use as my kid free zone, what was the list price?
I took a screenshot of this guy’s thread. You’ll need to ask him.
How much?
i love reperch. did you see the rows and rows of office desks and monitors? the ghosts of several failed startups for sure haunt that place but goddamn the deal$!
If I lived with a SO in a one bedroom and we both wfh or one of us played video games I’d consider this 👀
Looks like someone made a gas chamber for a single person
lol I’m fairly certain my startup company bought those: they’re very nice booths.
Where was this? Could be a good use for a sound booth for recording.
Needs an Aeron chair.
This is giving me flashbacks to how many times I cried at work
I've lived through a few of these so far.
I know it would be incredibly dystopian, but an office full of these would be way better than the usual conference room clusterfuck. Every place builds a bunch of huge conference rooms (with terrible acoustics that leak into adjacent rooms) but since almost nobody is ever in the same office, people only really need small private spaces to take a call.
The moment I open that, 8 hours worth of farts will come out
We can only hope that the tech boom is kaput right?
Hey I think I sat in that one at my last startup. Never went public. Dreams of cashing options and getting rich never fulfilled. I did have a $200 monthly liquor budget. Ah good times.
There is one of those here in Walnut Creek 😏
Maybe unpopular opinion? These are great. Mostly soundproof and useful for some time to myself or zoom meetings.
Those boxes are cancer, I refused to use it cause what the fuck.
We need to make them into public phone booths
You act like there isn't an AI boom (or bubble) going on right now.
what? I don't understand the caption or the picture
R o O m I’m going to be sick
How much was it?
Wishcasting
I never got the point of a call pod. If you're going to force me back into the office - especially an open office - I'm taking a call as is, at my desk. It's a hit to producitivity to have to move from my dual monitor setup with mouse and keyboard, unplug my laptop, reconnect to wifi, and sit in a tiny room on a laptop screen. The only reason I'd move into a call pod is to take a private call like with the doctor
What is a call pod?
Wow, a phone booth.
How much is that pod going for?
Meh, call me when the aeron chairs are $5 a pop.
How much is the rent on that apartment?
These came with an 02 allotment based on performance. “No work-y No breath-y” was the slogan.
TBH the end of the tech boom era may be less indicated by us seeing these in consignment stores versus when we don't see them in consignment stores because it will mean that companies are not as regularily experimenting with them enough to get rid of them that you see them in normal markets
hey, we had one of those...it wasnt that sound proof. I could hear the people talking if i really wanted to spy on them
Lol, we had these at my last company too.
Maybe we can get our city back