We’ve finally moved to a new office. Three years late, after the rest of the school had already moved. We joked that we were unimportant third-class citizens, and hence were left behind. (Sometimes we do feel like third-class citizens…) This is only my 3rd room, although some colleagues who worked for slightly shorter time could have had gone through more rooms than me.
I’m quite pleased to get back the original furniture arrangement that I had in my first office. My then colleague and I had this idea of a centre island of work tables that we share on opposite sides. We shared offices two-to-a-room. The design was unique, functional and promoted team work.
That office was very unique. The furniture was custom designed. The side tables had cutouts to fit around pillars, and the furniture configuration fitted exactly the room dimensions. It was too bad that the 2nd office room wasn’t the right shape for us to retain the preferred configuration. This new office now lets us go back to that layout.
The process of moving to our new offices this time was very frustrating. The planning, coordination, and execution was just totally screwed up. Talk about the actual moving itself. Just to move some furniture of two rooms took the workers 1.5 hours. That was all the lorry could take. Travel to new location, unload the furniture into the new rooms, another 1.5 hours. We (my team) had 7 rooms in total, and the “grand plan” was to move us all in a single afternoon starting at 2pm. Oh, I should also add, no one turned up at 2pm. At 3pm, the furniture movers came. But not the box movers. They didn’t know there was any moving to do that day.
It’s only on the 3rd day that, finally, everything had begun to get sorted out so that I can actually get around to doing some cleaning. How many times the contractors try to clean up the room doesn’t make any difference. The vacuum cleaner they brought, for example, simply sucked in dust one end and exhausted it into another part of the room. It’s as if the vacuum cleaner had no dust bag and no filter installed. This machine they call a vacuum cleaner really just disperses the dust so that you notice less of it.
I’m glad that today we managed to unpack and settle down a bit. Tomorrow, we should be able to get back to the normal rhythm of productive work.
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