Cleaned out a building in Delaware one time that was just 20 LLC offices per floor with just a desk and a chair in each room for each “company”
Terraria ass building
Sounds about right since Delaware has many “company HQs” set up in just that way so they get access to Delaware business law.
You guys have an office with a desk and chair?
Chair and desk? Yes. Office? I just sit on the roof
How big were the offices? I’m curious if there are more buildings for taxe havens in Delaware than there are actual workplaces
It’s not just Tax Havens, since Delaware business law is so thoroughly litigated and defined it’s a reliable place to be headquartered.
Doesn’t necessarily make it less “scummy” but it’s for a myriad of reasons.
They were all void of employees, each room was about 8x10 feet, had one desk in it with a chair behind it and two chairs on the other side. Each “office” had a paper on the door labeled “blank LLC headquarters”
They probably should have put the company name instead of just the word “blank”
Wild. A shell building.
I used to tour across the US a lot playing music and so many cities are just, like, yeah… That place exists.
That being said, some of the best shows were in the smallest cities because people were starving for things to do.
When I was in my 20s I took a couple trips clear across the states on the Greyhound, seeing 35 different states and countless famous US cities.
There were so many times I would be staring out the bus window though and Tim Armstrong from Rancid’s voice would pop into by head to sing this one piece of a line from the song Travie Bickle that I think of all the time when I’m away from home, because in all my personal travels so far, he has never not been right. It’s simply:
“…every city looks the fucking same.”
And it sure does.
Like this one time…I’d been on the road 3 straight days when I looked outside and…we hadn’t even left the PNW yet? Oh no wait, those vintage, dark-colored exterior brick walls that I thought were screaming ‘craft brew’, were actually going ‘choo choo’. This isnt Portland goddammit. We made it all the way to Pittsburgh!
Or my first time in LA, I started to feel weirdly at home just after nightfall. Did I actually portal home somehow, I wondered? No. Venice Beach and English Bay (Vancouver) were in fact always the exact same place. I just couldn’t see it until the smog stopped blocking the view.
Another time, I went for a quick wander through Seattle during a layover on the bus, to find a bank and exchange more CAD into USD. I’m trying to think of where I’ve seen them around here on earlier trips except…wait…I’m not familiar with this part of Seattle because we are in Nashville and I’ve never been to Nashville before today.
Or the time I got to walk around Chicago for a couple hours. At first I’m bracing for strangers to stop me and share all their racist/anti LGBTQIA+ opinions and stuff with me, then I thankfully remember…that’s the L train up there, not the absolutely fucking identical raised LRT track in Edmonton.
Oh and Fargo! Fargo looks like…it looks like I broke a promise to myself because I’m somehow back in ND again?! How did I get here when I swore…NEVER. NEVER again! Er, I mean Fargo looks a little like Olympia, WA, but a LOT like a town south of me growing up on Vancouver Island; a town called Nanaimo. Famous for a dessert square and nothing else.
So yeah, every city looks the fucking same. That’s the apathetic harumph of my exhausted, jaded inner traveler who still kinda wishes they were going places, but they’re also just kinda over a lot of them.
My ‘every city looks the fucking same’ seemed very similar, in the moment to your “…yeah. That place…exists.” 😂 That’s the whole reason I rambled on to the ridiculous length of this comment, just to relate the experience of my line to the feel of that line of yours.
I sooo get it.
I don’t really get it, but it was a ride and a half.
Spirit Halloween is here in NJ and that always seems to surprise people lmfao
From the name, I expect they make pumpkin whiskey?
Halloween costume/party/etc store. Known to inhabit a building for only a few months near Halloween.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I’d have thought Delaware honestly
It is the home of the Devil
My favourite one was the UK HQ of Otis, a company that makes elevators and escalators. Their HQ was in Reading, pronounced redding, so they’d answer the phone saying “hello, Otis Reading”
You know some corporate manager was patting themselves on the back for that.
I know exactly where Google’s headquarters are only because I once went to Further Confusion which is held at a hotel just down the street from Google.
I used to drive by the Five Guys (hamburgers & french fries) headquarters on a daily basis. It was right by my house. It’s tucked into a woodland hiking trail nook area in Virginia but can also be seen from the freeway.
Driving across Ohio be like
As a child I’d thought for quite some time that the milk trucks with yoghurt company logo were actually loaded with fruit yoghurt.
I dreamed of getting in with a spoon.
