Monday - receive e-mail that all desks have to be completely cleared by close of play Thursday because they are being removed on Friday to be taken to the new office .......... but we are not moving for another four weeks ........ which means that hire desks will have to be brought in to keep us going in the meantime. I think maybe the Follyville burghers should have consulted a logistics expert before undertaking this little bit of stupidity ...... or at least consulted me for a bit of common sense.
In practice I am not going to be in for the rest of the week so I have to clear my desk (and everything under it!) with about 6 hours notice. Luckily a supply of large crates are delivered at lunch time and I manage to get all my paraphernalia into two of them ...... just! And then I read another e-mail that states we should use one crate each and, if at all possible, share a crate with a colleague! No one knows where all this stuff is going to go to at the other end ... there simply is no room for storage.
So on Monday I return to my hire desk ........ naturally much smaller than the one they have just stolen from me. I was planning on living out of crates until the final move but, no ........ we have to pay for the crates by the day so they all have to be emptied back onto and under the desk. The crating up exercise will have to happen all over again in four weeks time. A little foresight and forward planning could have avoided all this disruption and expense. Goodness only knows what will happen on D-Day if the burghers carry on like this. The phrases "meltdown" and "the end of civilisation as we know it" come to mind. Watch this space as the story continues.
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