Treasure Above?

 Have you ever wondered what history may be hidden around you?

Like. 

There's always the 'found treasure in the attic' or the 'basement' or in the 'old shed' or the 'cellar' sort of mythos that may be in the back of the mind.

Especially when exploring older houses like your grandparents home.

But there's other areas where you just....don't consider what sort of treasure or history may be hidden behind the walls, under the floor, or in the ceiling of an older building.

And like....I don't consider my work building to be that old.

Even though the building is probably just as old or older than I am.

Like I had a coworker who'd been there nearly two decades before I started working there.

So like ... it's been around for a hot minute.

Long enough that I've already had to field calls in the recent past from the Home Office that basically boil down to "Hey, we don't know what this actually looks like. Can you send us pictures of it." 

Like they had some dude come in and do like a .... radar? Lidar? idk some sort of laser test that maps out the dimensions of the entire building so they can figure out how much footage the entire building has but also like how big the rooms within the building is. 

They also had me take pictures of our fish wall .... because the home office couldn't find the actual plano for the fish wall we have in their system and they wanted a visual of it. 

Today .... some dude from higher up the chain and that is probably in the home office was like "Heeeey. We can't find the building plans of your building. So we don't actually know what it looks like." 

Which ... .... HOW do you not know what your building looks like? I mean you've been sending us MAPs of the building with the AISLES and such on it so that we can set product and rearrange things every month. HOW do you not know what it looks like?! 

PLUS you had that one dude come in and MEASURE the entire store! HOW do you not know what it looks like?!

It's just one of those 'lost to time' things apparently where they knew at some point but the knowledge was lost at some point.

Regardless. They were like "Heeey, we don't have building plans here at the home office, BUT you may have the original plans THERE!"

Like. 

What?

Supposedly the original plans were placed in a PVC pipe and then stored in the ceiling above one of the rooms and if we lifted up the ceiling tile we may be able to find said pipe.

Which. Cool concept. 

IF ITS STILL THERE.

But at the same time WHY WOULD IT STILL BE THERE?

Like was that a trend of the time it was built in? That you store the master plans of the building IN the ceiling of the building itself?

Why not place it in like .... idk CITY HALL or like wherever building records are stored in the town? That's city hall right? Right? Who knows. 

But like shouldn't there be copies elsewhere? 

And WHY the ceiling?

Upon hearing this news I immediately doubted that the pipe thingy would still be up in the ceiling.

Because a few years a go we had some sort of ceiling work that got done....I can't remember if it was ceiling tiles being replaced or something above the ceiling tiles in the previous offices. But like.... things were messed around with up there.

Plus it's been DECADES. 

It could have vanished ANYTIME in that time frame if someone didn't know what it was and went "Oh. Old pipe. Toss it." when they were doing some sort of cleaning or maintenance or something. 

It's just mind boggling. 

Like my head Manager did attempt to look for said mystery pipe in a couple of spots in our ceilings.

Didn't find it.

But like we don't actually know which "office" it could be. "It's above the main office!" 

Well cool....but like is the office we're using as the main office the office THEY were using as the main office when the building was built? Who knows! 

Still. It's weird to think....that potentially it could be up there in the ceiling somewhere. These mysterious building plans. That literally no one would ever think to look for in the ceiling..... 

Except this one dude in the whole office who says they might be there.

So weird.

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi