Fast forward a few months...
When we moved away we knew that demolition was just a question of time. Several of my colleagues fed up with the old building and its problems even joked about getting chairs and going to drink beer to a nearby roundabout while watching the demolition.
Eventually they started around four months after we left the property. None of my colleagues took chairs or beer to the location.
One Saturday afternoon I was out with a few friends. We wanted to sing karaoke, so we headed to a nearby bar. We had bottles of wine in our bags for later, and decided to take a detour to see how demolition was progressing.
When we saw that the demolition workers had gone home for the weekend and left the gates open, we saw a great chance for the building's final party.
In we go. The press was located in this part of the building.
The marketing department looks a bit different now that all material containing asbestos has been removed.
We did always complain about air quality problems. There sure is ventilation now.
There still is stuff left in the lobby.
The HR department.
The editorial office.
The same corridor as above.
This was where our morning meetings used to be. At the other end of this former corridor was a bulletin board and on it were working shift lists from 2015 with my name on them. It was the only item left in the editorial offices.
We sat for a few hours on the floor of the old editorial office drinking our bottles of wine and posting on social media. I was the talk of the whole company the following Monday with my colleagues admiring my guts for going drinking to the demolition lot. I sure did drink the last wine of that building.
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