An empty cafeteria is an honest picture of a certain kind of wealth: space built for a crowd that went home, still priced as if the crowd were cheering.
Campuses are not evil. They are leftovers of a boom that needed bodies in chairs to look inevitable. When the chairs go up on the tables, the story does not update. The fountain still needs filters. The hall still needs cold air. Someone still has to explain to a spreadsheet why last year’s footprint is this year’s virtue.
You are invited to help with that explanation. Not with a tour. With an invoice. Idle capacity is a cost that looks for a customer. If your modest site is one of the customers, you are heating empty rooms with your work. That is a strange donation.
Srv is how you stop donating. Bring the steady work home. Let the campus bill the people who still need a campus. Empty space should get cheaper or get smaller. It should not get a new slogan and the same number in your mail.
How to read a leftover
If a service is quiet in your life and loud on the statement, it is a leftover. If you could not draw a map of where the work sits, it is a leftover with a velvet rope. Cut leftovers the way you would cancel a gym you do not visit. The building will survive. Your month will improve.