"Size Really Does Matter" Corporate Failure - "On Assignment": #aswcontest

Was on my way to taking my kids to the horse stable and looking at all the abandoned shit out in the country and then drive past the largest abandoned shit building I've ever seen. Motorola's Harvard Illinois 1.52 million-square-foot building has sat vacant since March of 2003. We are on the 15 year Anniversary of the last Motorola employees checking into work here.

They built this plant in 1997 and never got close to using all of the space they built and from talking to people who worked there many of the employees would show up to work and nobody would know what they should be doing so they literally sat around and did nothing getting paid for 8 hours a day for months on end.

This building at a cost of over $100 million dollars may not be Motorola's biggest blunder of all time dollar wise, but the shear size of this building and the fact we drive by it weekly is a great reminder of the stupidity of the leadership of Motorola.

One photo would never due this justice so took a few. Without further words here is one of Corporate America's Largest Failures looks like 15 years later.

Decided to try a second entrance to the building and luckily while one direction was also gated the other direction the chain across the road was down so I went in for some closer photos.

So this place is massive and there is no way to convey the size of this. Try to picture this sits on 325 acres and is 1.5 million sq feet in size.

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Photos are taken with my Samsung S8+.

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