I think I told you earlier that we were moving our office to one of the newest, tallest buildings in Port of Spain. Well my group moved about a month or so ago. Although we don't yet have cubicles, proper desks or telephones with an outside line, it is a big improvement. The telephone line is supposed to come any day and proper desks and cubicle furniture should be here early in the new year.
Check out my old office (that I shared with Raul) ....
And now the new one......
Quite an improvement, wouldn't you say?! This is the view from my "desk".
We are on the 20th floor of the building so we have a great view of the entire city of Port of Spain. Of course, this also made for an interesting experience last Thursday when we experienced the largest earthquake ever recorded in the eastern caribbean. It was a 7.3 on the Richter scale and was centered deep below the French island of Martinique. This island is quite a way north of us, so it was pretty widespread being felt on most of the islands.
There was no significant damage here in Trinidad, but it was quite a traumatic experience being 20 floors up. The entire building was shaking for about a minute or so, and then it went for a big enough sway to open up the doors of the filing cabinet near my desk! That's when I followed the structural engineers out into the core of the building!
Like I said, there wasn't any major damage here in Trinidad and Tobago, so we're all OK.
2 comments:
Nice one! Great new office. Glad you survived the quake - that must have been scary. Good job following the structural engineers - they know the deal!
sweet digs stutek. that view would definitely distract me though.
are you heading back to the GTA over the holidays? the team slack shakedown is in the planning stages now...
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