My Office Building

November 14, 2007

October was a pretty crazy month at work and left me zero time to blog about a few things I wanted to. So I’ll be playing catch-up this month hopefully. I work for McCann Erickson Worldwide, which is one of the largest marketing groups in the world. They’ve got offices all over and we do work for a bunch of big companies. Just a few are Microsoft, GM, Verizon, and Mastercard. The last couple months I’ve been working on this site, www.innovateon.com, for Microsoft. In addition to the English version, I also did Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese versions. Strange that we did no German. Christian, have the Germans not hopped on the Microsoft bandwagon yet, or what?

Anyway, our building is located right in the middle of downtown, kitty corner from the city-county building, and right across the street from StayWell Interactive, where I was working last year at this time. It’s an old building, built in 1891. It has a historical marker sign outside it. It was originally a club for wealthy businessmen and was located right across Exchange Place from the old Salt Lake Stock Exchange. It’s really a beautiful building, with blue and orange tints, tile mosaics, and gargoyles, things like that on the outside. Brides are often seen getting their pictures taken outside it. What’s crazy is that my Grandma Meg used to work in this building when she worked for Canada Life Insurance. She even worked on the 6th floor, which is where my office is. The interior has all been updated but some of the character of the old building has been left behind, like a frescoed, sculptured ceiling and big Corinthian columns on the main floor. Very cool.

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