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My house mate, and I went up to Palo Alto today to help the sysadmin at his old buisness partners New company (yeah, follow that train of thought…) get their new offices all wired up.
We had to locate about half the wiring, which for some reason was all coiled up inside the drop ceiling, then we had to trace down which bundle of wires went to which section of the patch panel.
Then Denis got back from his lunch meeting and we got to work figuring out which bundles needed to be re-routed to other parts of the office to accomodate the cubicle plan.
In the process of working out the layout of the cubicles and running the wire, we discovered that whoever had desinged the cubicle layout for them was either on crack or seriously trying to cheat them. The design called for back-to-back cubicles 7′ deep (plus the width of the cubicle walls) in a space 20′ wide. Ok, that leaves 3′ for a corridor on either side folks. I don’t think the fire marshall will like that.
Then we measured and found it isn’t 20′. It’s 19′ 9″. So figuring cubicle walls 3″ thick, that’s 14′ 9″, leaving 2.5′ for corridors. My own shoulders won’t fit in that space. I’m pretty sure the fire code calls for at least 42″.