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Nothing says "good times" like taxes and architecture.

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:05

[Dino and Coop singing]

00:12

Olive’s big day has finally come. [Olive holding a box of her belongings]

00:15

After many years of working a super boring job she hates, she’s going to make her life

00:19

fun again.

00:20

How?

00:21

By opening her own tax office.

00:23

Um…Olive has her own idea of "fun." [Olive looking excited about taxes]

00:26

She already bought an office space that’s 35 feet long and 30 feet wide.

00:30

Right now, it's just a big empty rectangle.

00:32

But she’s meeting with an architect to come up with ways to break the area into all the

00:37

rooms a tax office needs.

00:39

So Olive and the architect start brainstorming all the different rooms her tax office might

00:42

need….

00:43

A waiting room for clients….

00:44

…employee workspace…

00:45

…bathrooms…

00:46

…and most importantly a break room loaded with only the finest snacks.

00:50

Y'know…like Cheez-its.

00:52

Now that they’ve brainstormed what rooms they need, they have to figure out how they’re [Olive and architect discussing the design]

00:55

going to fit them all into the office space.

00:57

The first step is figuring out the rooms’ dimensions.

01:00

Olive’s bathroom at home is about 8 feet by 6 feet, but how big is this bathroom gonna

01:04

be?

01:05

Will it have stalls or will it be a single bathroom?

01:07

Should she have men’s room and a separate women’s room?

01:10

Most ladies don’t like what men tend to do to toilet seats. [Woman walks into a toilet and looks unimpressed when she finds the seat left up]

01:13

Yeah, two bathrooms it is.

01:15

Olive wants a classy tax office, all right?

01:17

With the help of the architect, Olive eventually decides the size of every room, making sure

01:22

they all fit into the 35 by 30 dimensions of the space.

01:25

The architect measures each room out to scale on the floor plan.

01:28

And he also makes sure each room is labeled and identified.

01:32

When they start putting in walls, it’s essential that every inch be accounted for ahead of time.

01:36

If things don’t quite fit, Olive might end up with something crazy like a bathroom stall [Worker sat at a desk with a toilet right next to him]

01:40

in the workplace.

01:41

And that would be unpleasant for everyone involved.

01:44

The architect has even made sure there’s room for a water feature in the waiting area.

01:48

He thought it was tacky overkill, but Olive insisted.

01:51

But he did draw the line when she asked if the water feature could feature a water-spitting

01:55

statue of a centaur.

01:57

C'mon, Olive.

01:58

There are boundaries. [Architect looks unimpressed with Olive's idea]

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