Talk:International Office Centers
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Olibis Yee was one of those employees [in that smiling, helpful staff] and this article was written in her memory. So that others might remember her.
I worked for a small, start-up brokerage firm in those offices. Kim and Olibisi were the first smiling face I saw each day as I strode towards my office to begin another days selling. You are missed. God Bless you both, and all the souls lost on September 11th, 2001.
10:20, 5 Nov 2004 68.86.180.39
While Wikipedia is not really a memorial there is some interest in expanding this article and making more links from it and to it, as this could serve as an example of this kind of service company (there are many in big business centers around the world). Currently we have only a few articles giving information on business Start-ups and none on their preferred places of business in large centers such as New York. We only have the Small office/home office article as a startup venue. So, my dear 68.86.180.39 (or other interested parties) if you want to have this article survive and prosper (as a legitimate Wikipedia article and incidentally as a memorial) expand it with items which can be used to illustrate both the unique (illustrate with text the incredible views, prestige adress - despite the terrible parking problems -, excellent staff etc. ) and generic aspects (number of staff, number of individual customers, number of corportions, type of corporations, churn rate of companies, etc, etc) of this particular company. --AlainV 05:52, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
This is a short quote (and should thus fall within the exceptions for short quotes provided by copyright laws) from a larger sized Guardian reprint of an October 2001 Wall street journal article. The article is composed mainly of recollections by Emma Thornton a letter carrier for the US Postal Service who used to have a section of the towers as her regular route:
- Some companies still have sent no one, and latecomers often carry bad news. "There's that sad situation on 79," she [Emma Thornton] says of a company called International Office Centers Corporation, a provider of furnished office space that occupied some of the 79th floor and leased most of the rest. "They had a Christmas party every year and invited me," Thornton says. The company had been in the north tower for 22 years, almost as many years as Thornton had delivered there. She was friendly with an assistant office manager whose nickname was Bisi. They chatted almost every day, Thornton recalls. An International Office official came by not long ago [October 2001] to claim mail and confirmed what Thornton feared. Bisi, whose real name was Olabisi Yee, died with three other workers on duty that day and six tenants who rented space from the company. Sean Keegan, whose wife, Burdette Russo, owns the company, says: "Nobody got out of our space."
--AlainV 07:08, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
