Yesterday, I was in the neighborhood of HAHT Software’s old building on Six Forks Road, so I decided to pop in to see who was there now. The old building sits at the Six Forks intersection of the Beltline. I drove up to the building, parked the car, and bounded up the familiar steps. A turn to the left brought me to the elevator, and I instinctively pressed 3.
The doors opened to a familiar sight: the third floor hallway. Doors were open and the lights were off, indicating the space hadn’t been rented. It seemed safe to wander through, so I did.
Minutes later, I was standing in the middle of my old office, now devoid of all furnishings. The wall where I had my bullet-riddled poster of Bill Gates was still there. I pictured my desk along the wall where it used to be.
Also walked through the other offices, still very much left untouched. In fact, there were lots of things still hanging around from the earlier HAHT days. It looked like HAHT had just moved out the past weekend, and yet its been five years since HAHT moved to the Newton Technology Center (formerly Charter Hospital) on Newton Road.
Kind of bizarre finding a five-year-old time capsule of your former work life, but interesting, too.