at the time, the building was owned by a call center company that i've forgotten the name of. i was contracted out to work for microsoft, and did vista tech support.
everybody used to ask why i don't move to kanata, and the answer was that i didn't want to move to kanata. why don't they move the tech jobs downtown, instead? kanata's boring.
i got a job at the hp building on herzberg after that (the microsoft contract got sent to the philippines, and i took the severance payout, hoping to find something better downtown) and did basically the same thing for another year.
that was in the mid 00s.