Does anyone work at 1111 Construction Ave?

[Anonymous]

Hello fellow IRSers! My office is apparently being moved there and have heard it is really crappy. Are there places to microwave/ refrigerate lunches? Eat lunch away from desk? Access to daylight? Water bottle filling stations? HVAC ok? WiFI? Anything else to know? I have no idea where will be. Sounds like space is tight.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I think you got the wrong address.

[Anonymous]

Groan...phone has its own opinion

[Anonymous]

There’s only a little bit of Legionnaires' disease in the water.

[Anonymous]

But seriously, there is a cafeteria on the seventh floor with microwaves and windows, there are a few courtyards for when the weather is nice (but the mall is also right there), there are some new water filling stations around, and I’ve never had an issue with the hvac but that may be office dependent. True story: quite a few people in the building have died of rare cancers and there are rumors it’s somehow related to the hvac system or the water but the union won’t look into it.

[Anonymous]

What about 1111 Electric Avenue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But seriously, there is a cafeteria on the seventh floor with microwaves and windows, there are a few courtyards for when the weather is nice (but the mall is also right there), there are some new water filling stations around, and I’ve never had an issue with the hvac but that may be office dependent. True story: quite a few people in the building have died of rare cancers and there are rumors it’s somehow related to the hvac system or the water but the union won’t look into it.

I always assumed it was from the crappy job they did getting rid of the mold after the ‘06 flood. Still can smell it in the basement and I have a sneezing attack every day when I enter the building.

OP, there are no break rooms, so no fridges unless your office suite buys their own (and gets it approved). Cafeteria has microwaves. I think 3 days a week now Fooda comes in and sells food. You can eat in the cafeteria if you want to get away from your desk. I mostly eat at my desk. Coffee, again depends on if your office suite buys its own coffee maker. They did put in water bottle fillers on a bunch of the fountains recently, like within the last month. I’ve never drank the office water since half the fountains had plaques on them saying not to drink and I could never understand how some were not safe but some supposedly are. My group has a water cooler and we pay personally to have water delivered. I think my biggest peeve about the building is that since we don’t have break rooms, there’s nowhere to wash your coffee mug or anything other than in the communal restroom which has always struck me as incredibly unsanitary. My office is an ice box. I have an electric blanket and often wear fingerless gloves even in the summer. On the other hand, the stairwells are like a sauna. I used to sit on the first floor and we had mice, haven’t seen one since I moved to a higher floor, doesn’t mean they aren’t still in the building. Occasionally I still see dead/dying extremely large roaches on the first floor, usually by the 10th street exit. And I saw an enormous fuzzy centipede thing in the gym locker rooms the other day. Oddly I’ve killed more than one mosquito in the gym, which seems strange since it’s in the basement.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Sounds like it may be tine to retire.

[Anonymous]

Just curious...how large is a suite? We are about 200 people. I assume that is more than 1 suite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious...how large is a suite? We are about 200 people. I assume that is more than 1 suite?

For sure. My office suite only has 6 people. But we are a small group. My understanding is they are clearing the entire 6th floor for the new arrivals. But we are situated interior and exterior around 3 interior courtyards, so the space is odd. 200 people will take up a good portion, if not most of, the entire 6th floor. The largest suite I’ve ever sat in accommodated 14 people.

[Anonymous]

That will be very different for us as we are used to just open cube areas with no dividers. Maybe it will be quieter? Does each suite have 1 manager office? Or are the offices in a separate space?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But seriously, there is a cafeteria on the seventh floor with microwaves and windows, there are a few courtyards for when the weather is nice (but the mall is also right there), there are some new water filling stations around, and I’ve never had an issue with the hvac but that may be office dependent. True story: quite a few people in the building have died of rare cancers and there are rumors it’s somehow related to the hvac system or the water but the union won’t look into it.

This is insane. Someone should go to a news agency about this. Maybe that would spur some action. Same thing happened at Newton Wellesley Hospital and I believe they at least investigated.

[Anonymous]

There is a huge rodent problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a huge rodent problem.

I think that is pretty typical for working in the office. We have some folks complaining about the cockroaches at my office and it's like folks this is just part and parcel of working in fhe office. I tell people to think of them as additional sources of collaboration.

[Anonymous]

Can you unionize the cockroaches?