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Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.
by bserge 5y ago
Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.
- tompazourek 5y agoThe critically acclaimed South Korean movie "Parasite" has a story like that.
- guyomes 5y agoAnother recommended Korean movie with a story like that is "3-iron". It has a more poetic approach.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoAt one company I worked for, a new hire started living on a floor under construction in the building. He thought no one knew, but we all did. Stayed up there for months since management was afraid of confronting him about it for some reason. He did do good work, I guess.
- newsbinator 5y agoHow did everybody know? What gave it away?
- loa_in_ 5y agoFor months, every day?
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoYep, for months it was where he lived. People suspected something odd when they saw him long after he'd "gone home for the day." Someone eventually went up to the floor under renovation (it was bare concrete and steel) and found his stuff. No one ever said anything to him that I'm aware of, but everyone (in our division anyway) knew he was up there. He eventually got an apartment, and I ran into him in that neighborhood so we knew he was really out. I'm not sure what his situation was, we were all quite well paid by local standards.
- marcinzm 5y agoAt my university a student lived in the physics building for a while since they didn't want to commute. I've also heard that at my high school, after I graduated, a kid was found sleeping in the drop ceiling due to likely an abusive home.
- dhosek 5y agoAfter the first time I dropped out of college, I had a three week period of homelessness. Since students had the keypad codes for after-hours access to the academic buildings, I slept in the math department lounge. There was a visiting professor from Germany, I think, who would come into the lounge every morning, see me sleeping and leave. I then would hide my pillow and blanket behind the sofa and walk to a dorm at the far end of campus where I could take a shower (most of the dorms on campus had bathrooms accessible only from dorm rooms but the one farthest away had a more traditional bathroom down the hall arrangement—and also a keypad whose code I knew). I like to imagine that the visiting professor would come back with some other faculty/staff member in tow saying, "I tell you, he's HERE! sleeping in the lounge!" only to be treated like Big Bird trying to show people Snuffleupagous.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI lived in my office for a month or two when I was a grad student at a UC about a decade ago. I just put cardboard all over the windows.
- gumby 5y agoRMS moved into his office after his house was burned down in an insurance fire.
- jmclnx 5y agoMany years ago this happened in my area, it was in a grocery store (part of a large chain), but not as bad as in her house. When workers showed up, they would be 1 or 2 wrappings on the floor and other minor things people would not take major notice of. He got caught because the night crew schedule was changed and never posted, he was found walking in his night cloths. He was a in his (low 20s) lived in a forgotten attic above the main store. Seemed he was an ex-employee who had setup a nice small apartment up there. Had a bed, small frig and a TV. He lived there for years. They never prosecuted him because the company would be embarrassed. These days I would think that would be very hard to do with all the cameras around. I know this because I worked at that store right after he got caught when I was very young.