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Check your numbers...
While talking today with one of the finance mucky-mucks about dividing and subleting the office space we rent, she told me that the total area of our office space was 6,722 square feet, and that the new sub-leasers wanted 3,200 sf of it. Emotionally that made sense (I knew they wanted about half) but the numbers didn't sound right.
So I fired up my CAD program and started measuring square footage.
The amount they want is actually closer to 2,300 feet. People swap digits all the time, so that's reasonable.
But that only left us 3,120 ish. 3,119 and 2,371 don't add up to 6,722; not even close. There's 1,200+ feet missing.
Further measuring shows that the 6,722 feet includes:
- Both public bathrooms
- Both public elevators
- The public hallway
- One of the two public stairways
- The building electrical room (which we don't have access to)
I hope we haven't been paying by the square foot for the last 4 years.
So I fired up my CAD program and started measuring square footage.
The amount they want is actually closer to 2,300 feet. People swap digits all the time, so that's reasonable.
But that only left us 3,120 ish. 3,119 and 2,371 don't add up to 6,722; not even close. There's 1,200+ feet missing.
Further measuring shows that the 6,722 feet includes:
- Both public bathrooms
- Both public elevators
- The public hallway
- One of the two public stairways
- The building electrical room (which we don't have access to)
I hope we haven't been paying by the square foot for the last 4 years.