Comments on: I want to work here

Question: I want to work here

urbanwhaleshark — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:47:45 -0800

Is this real and, if so, where is it?

Does anyone know if the picture in this blog post is real and, if it is, where that office is?

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:55:51 -0800

I can't find an original source, but here's a picture of it from a different angle.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:56:18 -0800

here's another pic of the same thing.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:57:33 -0800

It apparently used to be hosted on the UC Berkeley website, but the page is 404'd.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:40:46 -0800

The UC Berkeley hit is from the humour page of a building relocation committee.

By: hootch

hootch — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:03:43 -0800

I'm almost positive I've read that the office is in Europe. I want to say Denmark, but I'm a lot less positive about that.

By: brianogilvie

brianogilvie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:14:08 -0800

If you look closely at the monitors on the far side of the tank, there doesn't appear to be any refraction. I'm guessing fake.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:04:07 -0800

If it were just one photo, I'd go along with the shopping theory, but with two it seems less likely. That's a lot of trouble to go to.

And while it's pretty unusual it doesn't seem either impossible or inherently ridiculous.

The photo has been around since 2004, so I may have seen it without identification before, but I seem to remember the same thing that hootch does. Tineye search only turns up funny photo sites with no provenance, though.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:18:38 -0800

Corroboration of similar excess, at least, from the NYT:
To Swim With the Sharks, Have a Big Tank
The author is Jayson Blair, but the Predictive Systems tank is corroborated elsewhere.

It's possible that it's a Bloomberg facility -- either the news operation or the bullpen at City Hall.

By: yohko

yohko — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:19:42 -0800

Here it is again. I doubt this is what their office actually looks like, but if anyone is curious enough you could call them and ask.