Worst client room/location you've had? Just finished 5 weeks in a basement room with no windows and I couldn't be happier, I'm rediscovering the outside world

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I was working for a science organization and they had us next to a room that had radiation hazard signs. The janitors wore those things that measure radiation. My team worked in that room for a day before I showed up on site. I immediately moved everyone to the hotel and told the client we would come back after getting a room inside the office facility.

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3 levels below ground, no windows of course, 6 of us in a room that was about 90 sf. Oh yeah did I mention the elevator machine room right next to it. Yeah.

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A1, they say consulting kills but that's just ridiculous. Glad you got out of there...

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Working in an open shared space with our Saudi clients in Riyadh. We had windows, but there is nothing to see in Riyadh.

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Former fallout shelter. Lead walls, so no cell reception.

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Riyadh is probably the worst "major" city on earth. There is barely even any decent food there in addition to horrific traffic, a terrible airport, and awful clients. Some rooms at the Ritz are massive though.

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What the hell @A1

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Windowless storage room. That's literally what the sign said. Wifi didn't really work so you had to go in the hall to download your emails. Also, was so small you had to ask someone to get up so you could squeeze past to go to the bathroom. It was also always hot. Jan? Hot. August? Hot. Miserable 8 months.

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Riyadh sounds lit though

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Riyadh, like the rest of Saudi, is a desert wasteland. Speaking as a Muslim who's gone multiple times.

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Wow so many windowless rooms 😥

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Kitchen Nashville with dogs and 30 people had to run to Starbucks for air

Windowless rooms at 2 consecutive clients...we're talking over a year here 😥

Windowless room. Once missed a building weather evacuation because the alarm in the too was broken and no windows means we had no idea the weather had gotten so bad.

Yeah, but what about the night life?

Oh so many. Perhaps my fav was a large auto where they gave me a broken chair, I wasn't allowed on the wifi, and there was no cell reception or phone, and they'd get mad when I'd work somewhere else where I could actually get work done for them. They sure showed me! Spending $400+/hr and making me non-productive.

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