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So you're at your boring office job one non-descript Wednesday afternoon filing away another endless pile of work. You notice your colleagues getting up and crowding around the small television in the lunch/kitchen area.

It's Z Day.

Sketchy reports of a global zombie epidemic are fed over the news channels. Half the people in your workplace grab their belongings and leave in a desperate bid to reunite with loned ones. The other half are glued to the set unable to comprehend the horror unfolding. You peer out the large glass windows of your 3rd level office building to see the beginnings of several frenzied brawls on the street below.

Even at it's early stages you probably wouldn't chance a walk down on Main Street during Z Day.

So the next question is how ideal is your workplace at battening down and waiting out the undead storm?

My Work

This scenario suits me completely my workplace is a venerable fortress in terms.

I work in a telecommunications company HQ; a large campus style complex surrounded entirely by 8 foot high fencing. All doors are magnetically sealed and only accessible with a valid security pass. Internally each building is connected by indoor corridoors which can also be sealed and isolated by giant magnetically sealed fire doors. These doors are not powered and thus would remain sealed even in the event of no mains power.

A two level subterranean carpark with loading dock also exists that can be accessed by either an internal switch or security pass. This carpark can be isolated and locked down in case of infiltration.

The building itself runs off the public power grid but has a generator system that is designed to run for up to two weeks in the event of power loss.

Being a telecommunications provider there is absolute access to all media and communications making this hideout a HQ and Knowledge base in itself.
(In the event of Z Day I would spend hours researching global response and posting information for survivors. I also have access to a system which can simultaneously SMS warning messages to every subscriber on the cell/mobile network within the country.) We have access to broadcast systems as well as being able to send billions of education/warning emails to millions of subscribers.



There are roughly 7-8 food shops and kitchens with store/cold rooms as well as a fully stocked convenience store inside my work complex. My guess is that it could easily sustain a reasonable size of 100 survivors for 3-6 months.

Geographically the building sits upon a hill and from the top floor the glass windows provides a 360 degree view of the landscape. Traffic whether vehicular or pedestrian can be seen coming from miles away.

We have a fully stocked nurses station/first aid room gym amenities and a local freshwater creek that runs underground and fed into an internal lake in the complex courtyard.

So with all this in mind I hope I'm at work when the dead rise. I'm set!