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ENDINGS
After discussing in your small groups, enter a few responses into to
the question bins below ...
Participants entered the following set of comments:
A. What is ending that you will MISS?
001 The hour in traffic that I spend driving down from the city.
002 Brain Tacos.
003 burritos @ taco flats
004 SOUTHPARK
005 Proximity to South Park...
006 This season of The Sopranos.
007 I miss the logo
008 being located close to work
009 SMOKING IN SOUTHPARK
010 SEX IN SOUTHPARK
011 The long commute to RWC
012 Small company feel, no bureaucracy
013 CMGI's and Epiphany's stock price
014 "short" commute
015 HOMELESS IN SOUTHPARK
016 not sure exactly what this question means
017 Convenient access to 73 different Tacos El Grullense
018 lunch in south park -
019 15 commute to RWC
020 Parking!
021 Parking Tickets... oh, we are still in the city
022 basketball
023 The hip trendy culture of South Park
024 I am going to miss all the South Bay people telling us to quit
being whiners about the new location.
025 the smallness of the teams....fast expansion causes the "closeness"
to go away
026 camaraderie of a smaller company....and Friday afternoon staff
meetings.
027 start up chaos
028 South Park !
029 Basketball season.
030 we will miss college hoops and the ski/snowboard season
031 Looking out windows.
032 men peeing on our window
033 south park
034 the brain taco
035 Being close to daycare and my chiropractor.
036 Parking, cheap rent, clean streets, decent drivers, the 10
hours I don't have to commute, my family...... MY SANITY!!!!!!
037 Snow in Tahoe.
038 BEING ABLE TO THROW FLOYD'S FRISBEE AROUND THE OFFICE
039 I will miss the fabulous Mexican food in RWC. Will Buffy like
her new digs?
040 SOMA Warehouse Office
041 not a thing
having to go to more than one site
042 Decisions that can be made in 2 hours rather than in 3 weeks,
no kidding
043 South Park
Short drive to work
Super user access
The balloon logo
044 The short commute.
045 Don't like being in corporate buildings... Preferred the start-up
feeling of Bryant St. building...
046 'Sex and the City'
047 redwood city brain burritos
048 The chance to pick up some prime real estate in La Redwood
Vario with 25% of my salary.
049 the ONElist building
hopefully offsites with this agency :)
burritos and piñatas from Middlefield Road
050 the feeling of family in a small startup
051 small company feel, old logo and its sense of belonging,
052 apple juice in the morning, what's up with that Jan....
053 South PARK
Proximity to MoMos
No more Dairy Queen in Redwood City
Thanh's Vietnamese food
"Climate Best by Government Test"
054 Being in a SOMA surrounding
055 small company feel
056 My code that's been retired.
057 Small start-up feeling – loss of identity.
058 I'm going to miss Cafe Centro
the logo
059 I'm going to miss 9 foot ceilings.
060 Lunches in South Park
Nerf gun battles at ONElist
061 Small startup work environment
062 bad-attitude
063 Lunches in South Park, dogs in the office, knowing everyone's
name, New Yorkers will have to learn new phone numbers.
064 the guy in South Park that never wears a shirt and the rest
of his friends at the "Bay View"
065 long drive to RWC x2
working for a small company
skiing
working for a fast company
knowing everyone in company
every employee feeling they are contributing
POP Server
066 Being able to scream down 101, park outside the door, run inside
screaming about how the archive server is dead, land at my computer, and
fix things within 30 minutes in the dead of night.
067 the smaller size, contact day to day with many different parts
of the company. too many new faces to keep track of where and who people
are.
068 Cute construction workers with big machinery on Brannan/Third
069 Not having to climb a flight of stairs of ride an elevator
to have a 3-minute meeting
070 dear miss coordinator, definitely will miss southpark... Centro
rocks..
I miss the 20 person company..
I won't miss anything about not traveling down to redwood
shitty... that would of sucked, ya know what I’m sayin'?????
071 Train tracks
burritos
car pooling
Intense fluorescent lighting
Taking the bus to work
Being able to ride my bike to work
South Park
Walking past the AA center and Senior Sobriety center
on the way to work
Martin's Redwood Ditty's
072 SOUTH PARK!!!!!
073 the eGroups founders
the old logo
sanford
074 SOUTH PARK
075 Dog friendly buildings.
078 telling the SF crowd to stop whining
079 no commuting to RWC!!!!!
080 Age 26.
081 RWC TV lounge
082 Convenient access to illegal chopshops.
083 our clueless .... department -- oh wait, they are still here
084 Jacqueline flaunting Rikk's pink sox
085 Walking down the train tracks.
086 hi Carolyn
087 team building day begins
what was on that loopy chart?
end is not in sight
088 bad-attitude@egroups.com
B. What is ending that you are glad to say GOODBYE to?
001 All of the noise from Pacbell Park and the construction workers
that whistle at you every time you leave the building
002 That ugly building in RWC
003 Commute to RWC
004 Split offices!!!
005 No more burritos for lunch!
006 mice
007 having 2 separate websites - Go twister!!!!!!
008 being in two separate offices and having to commute between
the two
009 my redwood city commute
010 Being far away from PacBell park!
011 no space to work in peace
012 I am glad to leave my previous company, which is going nowhere
as far as I am concerned.
013 the old logo, the tropical heat of the second floor, the martin
roscheisen memorial conference room and barbecue pit.
014 the uncertainty
015 The host reminds me of an elementary school teacher
016 where's the building?
017 Twister.
018 RWC
019 going to miss the small company environment. too much bureaucracy
as we get larger.
020 Not knowing which office everyone is in at any given time
021 Late nights!
022 parking tickets
railroad tracks
the door desks
023 Redwood City!
024 Brain Taco
025 the lack of air conditioning in the SF office...
026 Meetings about where we are moving to
027 Clinton's presidency.
028 PacBell park!!!!
029 I’m glad to say goodbye to the possibility of moving to rwc.
also...doors on sawhorses.
030 Construction!
031 having to work in the dark
032 All the people the people from the south bay telling us to
stop whining about the new location.
033 Commuting and the whole "RELOCATION" issue.
034 glad to say goodbye to small apartment space and moving into
a house.
035 my previous dysfunctional employer
036 Hot, stuffy, crowded, noisy work environment AND NO commute
to RC!! And no more taco flats! Spending time in traffic trying to get
to meetings in RC. Coordinating meetings between 2 locations. No more cheese-ball
hotels for monthly company meetings.
037 the old eGroups vs. old ONElist sites
Twister
chocolate lovers
038 having two different buildings
having no space to do any work
having no time to do anything non-twister
039 Railroad tracks and speed bumps.
040 having 2 buildings
041 RED WOOD CITY
042 5mph on 101
043 The 60-mile a day, hellish commute
Having two email services, two web sites, two customer
support queues, two sets of stats, ...
044 low ceiling and no windows.
045 merger process and the personal anxiety, past management focus
and style
046 the great lighting in rwc office
047 the guy in South Park who never wears a shirt and the rest
of his friends at the "Bay View"
048 the crackheads on 3rd St.
049 Rikk’s orange shirt
050 Always stuck toilets.
051 My fling with the girl from bigword
052 The environment surrounding the RC location
053 Depending on who you are in the group, see other entries
Working in the Barrio
Paying $20 for gas every 3 days
Taking the bus to work
054 1 hour bus ride to South Park.
The homeless choir on Third Street.
The limited variety of foods in RWC. Can you say tacos,
tacos, tacos?
The SFS (second floor sauna)
Doggie day care at Swiggy's
055 People peeing in front of my window.
056 Having to explain what eGroups is. Having to spell eGroups.
(As brand awareness increases.)
057 An inflated NASDAQ.
058 REDWOOD CITY!
059 the opportunity to have my daughter attend a decent public
school
060 'feature fights'
no AC on second floor
RWC chairs
old eGroups website
chocolate lovers
061 mercurial decision-making
062 The pervasive construction on Bryant St.
063 My relationship with my mistress...
064 uncertainty on space (hopefully)
065 ICQ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
066 the seating, majorly cramped working spaces!!!!!
067 Speed bumps!
068 redwood city
all the candy we used to get *bad for your teeth
069 The world's slowest McDonalds.
070 NO MORE CALTRAIN COMMUTES!!
071 Killer Bee's on ICQ!!!!!! And those damn TREE THUGS!!!
072 the lack of variety in food
073 bad-attitude@egroups.com
074 crowded office
taking the bus to work
smelly dogs or dogs that go airborn to catch frisbees