We’re very excited to announce that from our humbling beginnings as a Guelph’s newest coworking space, we have been acquired by RIM. While this deal has been in the works for a few long, lawyer filled days, the deal was officially signed today. While RIM has always employed a lot of Guelph residents, this represents RIM’s first physical office space in our city.

For us at ThreeFortyNine, this is a very exciting day. As a loose knit group of homeless freelancers and ‘entrepreneurs’, we can finally return home at the end of the day and tell our wives and/or husbands there’s a T4’d paycheque coming.

“Honestly, I’m just sick of this php crap. I’m excited about getting to work on a solid technology stack rooted in a quality language like java”, said ThreeFortyNine resident Colin DeCarlo. Adding that “I’m not sure what they’ll have me working on, to be honest I think Jim is just looking for a quiet office to get some work done in. Hey, this calls for a new twitter badge!”

“Who the hell is rim?” chimed in a concerned Eric. “I hope someone explained how the keg fund works here, they’d better pay their part”.

“So what just happened?” asked a confused Chris. “Oh wait, I get it, so ThreeFortyNine just gave me a rim job?”

“Hang on a second” said Gord, “I’m just a member here, you’re telling me I now work for rim? Cripes, it never occurred to me to actually read the lease I signed here.”