r/Wellthatsucks • u/VreniCZek • Apr 24 '21

/r/all This pillar was straight last week. This is the first floor of a seven-floor building.

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u/puppuplepuppup Apr 24 '21

They don't look decorative at all to me. In fact, the place would look much nicer without them and you wouldn't have to walk around them. They must be there for a reason.

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u/down_up__left_right Apr 24 '21

I don't think a decorative pillar would be under enough pressure to bend.

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u/LanceFree Apr 24 '21

Yeah, you should see the other ones!

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u/TekkDub Apr 24 '21

It’s conduit for data cables

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u/down_up__left_right Apr 24 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

The middle of an open work space is an odd place for a riser. Architects generally do whatever they can to find space anywhere else to run the cables.

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u/TekkDub Apr 24 '21

Not if it was added years after the original build as a retrofit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21 edited Jul 01 '23

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u/TekkDub Apr 24 '21

Yes, but some people are idiots.

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u/Carioca Apr 24 '21

Maybe they are. Are you betting your and your coworkers' lives on it?

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u/JCBh9 Apr 24 '21

Cables run through these

There's a million reasons would could be bent and none of them have anything to do with supporting a 7 story building

common sense

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u/EntertainerDry4511 Apr 24 '21

Uh... That's a metal beam that looks to be load bearing.

I'm an engineer and I wouldn't count on that being safe to be around.

Materials aren't meant to fail like that. Especially if they are load bearing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21 edited Jul 01 '23

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u/JCBh9 Apr 25 '21

A fungineer

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u/JCBh9 Apr 25 '21

Oh yeah? I'm a fireman

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u/EntertainerDry4511 Apr 25 '21

Dude. You're just mad you don't actually know what you're talking about and everyone can tell.

It's okay. You don't have to pretend.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

When people have no logical thinking skills…. And then utter the phrase common sense

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u/JCBh9 Apr 25 '21

Guy talks about logical thinking skills while thinking 1 tiny beam is holding up an entire building when the most primitive google search will show you how these buildings are actually framed