Salesforce – Part Two

I needed a keyboard. I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce’s tower in Vancouver around 9am. There were a pair of monitors mounted to the desk, a power strip, and a chair. Even a mouse. But no keyboard.The office was mostly empty, with a few people taking calls in phone booths. The Salesforce mascots leered vacantly from omnipresent wall murals. “TechForce is on the 5th floor,” the receptionist told me from behind her face mask when I asked where I could get a keyboard for my desk. I took the elevator down, badged back in, and found the TechForce area. Except TechForce is only open on Thursdays, I learned from the sign on the desk. It was Tuesday. Nobody seemed to be around.I arrived that morning with the intention of making the best of our new situation. We’d been encouraged to come back to the office one or two days a week. This was before the Omicron variant of COVID-19 exploded across the world. We were deep into the second year of the pandemic. I was pretty…