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jsb0714 posted...

This company signed a 99-year lease. Don't expect them to be sensible.

That is indeed pretty questionable, unless they got an insanely good deal on it. I can't fault anyone too much for failing to predict the pandemic and the shift to WFH it would force, but it takes a pretty spectacular amount of arrogance to assume that your company will not only still be around in 99 years, but that the area will develop in a way that that will still be a reasonable location to have an office in 99 years. Unless there are numerous clauses in there that let them break the lease under any of the myriad circumstances that would make them unable to use the space, that's pretty dumb.

EclairReturns posted...

That sounds almost like irony.

Not really. Irony (specifically situational irony, which is what's relevant here) refers to an unexpected outcome. There's a lot of subjectivity in what is/isn't expected, which people trying to sound smart by being pedantic about irony's definition often ignore, but being exposed to Covid after the company forces everybody to ignore Covid precautions and come in is entirely the opposite of unexpected. The term you're looking for is "poetic justice," though even that's debatable because that concept relies on people "getting what they deserve" and not just things working out in a way that perfectly makes the point you want to make.