eabolden
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1 edit | SunSockets Office in Vienna, Virginia - photos
Went to visit SunRocket tonight.
That place must have cost a fortune to rent!
Interested in seeing my pictures of my journey. I could only get into the elevator lobby of the 3rd floor at around 8:30 pm on Friday July 20, 2007. But Sunrocket had the entire 3rd floor.
goto:
yahoo groups, group name:sunrocketisdead
»tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/s···wse/7469
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sandwidth
join:2004-10-22
Ontario, CA | Re: SunSockets Office in Vienna, Virginia
Thanks for the pics, Lizz.
Ya, that place sure looks shwank. (Pics are teeny tiny, but I get the idea)
Let's hope TB has their priorities in order. |
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eabolden
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Falls Church, VA | I am going to resize the pictures.
Did not realize til my friend just told me they were tiny! |
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SunSocket
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eabolden
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said by sandwidth  :Thanks for the pics, Lizz. Ya, that place sure looks shwank. (Pics are teeny tiny, but I get the idea) Let's hope TB has their priorities in order. I fixed the pictures to be big now.
You can actually see stuff. |
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gatorkram
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clubs: | Why don't you post them on the forums so we don't have to join yahoo groups, and then your group, to see them?
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dentman42
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| said by gatorkram :Why don't you post them on the forums so we don't have to join yahoo groups, and then your group, to see them? I second that.
(Translation for any straggling AOLers reading this thread: Me too! Me too!) |
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swanboy
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Hollywood, FL | reply to eabolden
Please post the pictures, it's against my religion (google) to signup with yahoo. |
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eabolden
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Falls Church, VA | Can I post pictures here? New to this forum |
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eabolden
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1 edit | reply to eabolden
Okay, I said I would go by the SunRocket office and I did. It was about
8:30 pm on Friday July 20, 2007.
I was able to get into the building. I took a picture of the occupant
listing which is posted.
One of their co-occupants is that little blue box company, Tiffany's.
This is in Vienna, Virginia right across the street from Tyson's
Corner Mall. Probably one of the top 5 most expensive real estate areas
in the Washington DC Metro Area.
On the first try, I was not able to access the 3rd floor via the
elevator since it has a passkey, but I was able to go up to the 5th
floor. and the door opened.There was a guy walking past the elevator and he looked at me funny since I did not get off. Then the elevator door closed, I continually hit the 3rd floor button but it never lit up
but the door did open. A youngish mid-20's guy in Khakis and a button
down shirt got into the elevator, I got off. There are two glass
doors on either side of the elevator lobby.
No one besides the one cleaning crew woman for the building appeared
to be there.
So, I started taking pictures. In the reception area you can see
the "OUT OF BUSINESS" sign on the windows. Behind the reception desk
there was still a phone and I saw 2 Dell LCD monitors. I could not
see if they were hooked to anything, plus 4 waiting chairs. Otherwise
th reception area was barren. I could barely see into a back office and it
looked like a printer was in one (in middle of reception the middle door that is like a thin opening due to camera angle) but I really could not see much else.
On the other side of the elevator lobby was a frosted glass door with some
clear glass lines. I took pictures through those lines. All I could
see was huge bags of trash. SunRocket banners balled up and more crap.
SunRocket had the entire floor in the building.
I spoke to the cleaning woman, though not well since I do not speak
Spanish, unfortunately. She said they are all gone. Apparently, she
was also a customer, she said nothing was really in there. I did not
want to press my luck at trespassing or get her in trouble, so I did
not bother to ask if I could take a peek inside the doors. All doors
on the floor were locked.
Building
Building Occupant Listing
Door To Reception from Elevator Lobby 1
Door To Reception from Elevator Lobby 2
Left side of Reception
Middle of Reception
Right side of Reception
QA LAB door right to the right of the reception doors
Otherside of Elevator Lobby of 3rd floor taken through clear stripes on Frosted glass doors 1
Otherside of Elevator Lobby of 3rd floor taken through clear stripes on Frosted glass doors 2
Otherside of Elevator Lobby of 3rd floor taken through clear stripes on Frosted glass doors 3
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sandwidth
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Thanks for upsizing the pics. (I simply joined, no biggie and I dunno about hosting pics here.
If you want a generic upload, just use www.imageshack.us and you can cut/paste the links here.
As for those offices.........dayum!!! I can't imagine those were cheap. And REGARDLESS of what the rent was on a place like that, you CERTAINLY don't rent over your head w/ a startup VOIP like SR. That was truly foolish!!
One thing I do like is that we're able to physically get to these places. Due to the interconnectivity of the internet, when you burn a couple hundred thousand folks like this, they just might get together & DO something about it!! (Anybody want some office chairs & telephones?)  |
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jay_rm
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eabolden
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I did figure out how to post images it is quite easy.
In the reply or post type the following for say like 5 pictures. (I am going to spell attachment as ATT in the example so it does not ask me to actual put some in)
[att=1]
[att=2]
[att=3]
[att=4]
[att=5]
then when you hit the "preview/attach" button it will ask you for the first 4 attachments. Enter the attachment filename and hit upload. You can only upload 4 at a time but then it will ask for the next 4 and so on.
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gatorkram
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1 edit | reply to eabolden
I would love to know what was in all those bags of trash...
edit:
I also want that sunrocket qa lab sign 
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sandwidth
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| said by gatorkram :I would love to know what was in all those bags of trash... ROTFLMAO..............that's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I saw 'em!!!  |
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eabolden
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Wish I would have know I could have snagged that sign no problem.
I thought I had taken pictures of the balled up big (like 3 by 9 feet) yellow banners saying SunRocket in the room with all those trash bags. Bit I didn't.
I thought I had my digital camera on me but only had my cell phone so pictures we not as good as they could have been.
I am game to trying to go back! |
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gatorkram
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clubs: | Anything that looks like trash, is trash, and you are doing them a favor, by helping them get rid of it
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wnyzfinest
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West New York, NJ | reply to sandwidth
lisa's dirty pampers |
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schipperke
join:1999-11-29
Potomac, MD | reply to eabolden
Sure, I know where this is. Pass it all the time, and would never guess SR would be there. |
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mclean
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| Wow...no wonder they went out of business. That area has the most EXPENSIVE rents in Northern Virginia. Approx $50/100 sqft depending on view/etc. I'm going to head there and try to see pick up some stuff. They took $100 of mine so I'll try and get it back
Wow  |
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