Tuesday December 22
The start of the big move - packing up day. Which bright spark thought it would be a good idea to move immediately before the Christmas holiday? I suppose they thought that not much work would be done on these two days anyway - apart from all the senior managers, of course, who all had very pressing meetings they had to attend and were extremely conspicuous by their absence from the chaos that was going on all over the office. It was left entirely to the grassroots to decide how to organise things - which was probably for the best, judging by past performance. All went reasonably well until the crates ran out. An e-mail had been sent to all staff making it quite clear that everything had to be packed up and ready to go by the end of the day ........ All very well if you've got crates to pack in .......... a bit difficult if not! Crates had to be labelled with personal and team names to make delivery easier at the other end ....... but the printers were removed at the beginning of the day so no labels could be printed. The computers were taken at lunchtime so no-one could do any normal work. So the afternoon was a case of sitting around reading the paper and doing Sudoku ....... couldn't do anything else. We saved one crate for the Emergency Planning Manager (who obviously had not planned for the move and had disappeared to a meeting all morning). He had not had the foresight to start packing his stuff in advance, and I left him pondering how to get about four crate-loads of stuff into the last remaining crate.
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