<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5bbbb220-627c-498c-a0a4-3933942bde31/DBE37EAB-8F7C-449D-911D-28E5A48C4D78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/16/microsoft-campus-mystery_1.html" href="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/16/microsoft-campus-mystery_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.infoworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/16/microsoft-campus-mystery_1.html"> <P class=ArticleBody _extended="true" page="1">A new-hire hazing ritual and other employee pranks at Microsoft's Redmond campus may live on, thanks to some good-humored building planners at the company.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/16/microsoft-campus-mystery_1.html"> <P class=ArticleBody _extended="true" page="1">The jokes revolve around the mysterious building seven. The Seattle area has 116 Microsoft buildings and the buildings on the Redmond campus are numbered sequentially except for the number seven. There isn't one.</p> <P class=ArticleBody _extended="true" page="1">The missing building is fodder for various commonly executed employee pranks (or at least regularly boasted-about jokes).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/05/16/microsoft-campus-mystery_1.html"> <P class=ArticleBody _extended="true" page="1">Perhaps the best known is when Microsoft managers send new hires to meetings in building number seven, so that they can snicker while the new kid on the block scrambles to find the building. Or another good one entails making an anonymous call to the new hire late in the day and telling them to report to building seven within 20 minutes to pick up a security badge.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBE37EAB-8F7C-449D-911D-28E5A48C4D78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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