Microsoft campus myth lives
PC World | at | by Mike
A new-hire hazing ritual and other employee pranks at Microsoft's Redmond campus may live on, thanks to some good-humored building planners at the company.
The jokes revolve around the mysterious building seven. The Seattle area has 116 Microsoft buildings and the buildings on the Redmond campus are numbered sequentially except for the number seven. There isn't one.
The missing building is fodder for various commonly executed employee pranks (or at least regularly boasted-about jokes).
Perhaps the best known is when Microsoft managers send new hires to meetings in building number seven, so that they can snicker while the new kid on the block scrambles to find the building. Or another good one entails making an anonymous call to the new hire late in the day and telling them to report to building seven within 20 minutes to pick up a security badge.