Moving to a new office this weekend

[ChinaBuck]

           

Itâ€s your usual normal chaos kind of thing. My staff have apparently never packed anything in their life. Maybe mommy and daddy did it for them. Sheesh. 

One lady starts to put our plates, cups and glasses loose into a box. And then another lady laid our picture frames, with glass faces mind you, unwrapped and flat in a box. Being the packmaster that I am, I had to set them straight. And oh, putting stuff in boxes and taping them securely shut is also apparently not a core skill. 

Attached are a couple of pics. One is from when I told the one lady you canâ€t loose pack glasses, that you have to wrap them in the bubble or foam wrap we had. The glass on the left was her idea of a good job, the one on the right I did. 

[Bonebuck]

LOL Chinabuck. That looks like when I quit a firm after 7 years. I just threw my schitt in a box. I am assuming you have a capable IT guy to move your computer systems?

[3rdgensooner]

Thatâ€s why you hire movers. I worked for a hospital system that consolidated a clinic I was in. Wanted me to help move. Uh no. I was paid strictly on production. I said I see patients or I stay home. Iâ€m not free labor.  I said Iâ€d think about it for the usual hourly rate for physicians. They hired movers. I was briefly a hero with the hourly staff as they did their usual jobs as well instead of packing and moving boxes.

[ChinaBuck]

We had packers/movers/new site assemblers for all of the electronic stuff (copier/desktop computers/monitors/etc. Another group moved boxed up and moved furniture/books/mags). We packed up our interior design samples/marketing materials/kitchen/financial records/personal. This is the stuff my staff so “expertly” packed. We had the second group move that stuff to the new office.

We are moving to a smaller space so I told everyone we could only keep about half of what we had. So decisions needed to be made before we moved. I hate moving crap you are only going to throw away later.

[Bonebuck]

We had packers/movers/new site assemblers for all of the electronic stuff (copier/desktop computers/monitors/etc. Another group moved boxed up and moved furniture/books/mags). We packed up our interior design samples/marketing materials/kitchen/financial records/personal. This is the stuff my staff so “expertly” packed. We had the second group move that stuff to the new office.

We are moving to a smaller space so I told everyone we could only keep about half of what we had. So decisions needed to be made before we moved. I hate moving crap you are only going to throw away later.

It's amazing how much crap you bring when you move. I have 15+ plastic totes that we brought from Georgia. I have not opened them in 5 years-but I built shelves in the garage to store them. My wife is happy though knowing she has this junk with her.

[ChinaBuck]

We had packers/movers/new site assemblers for all of the electronic stuff (copier/desktop computers/monitors/etc. Another group moved boxed up and moved furniture/books/mags). We packed up our interior design samples/marketing materials/kitchen/financial records/personal. This is the stuff my staff so “expertly” packed. We had the second group move that stuff to the new office.

We are moving to a smaller space so I told everyone we could only keep about half of what we had. So decisions needed to be made before we moved. I hate moving crap you are only going to throw away later.

It's amazing how much crap you bring when you move. I have 15+ plastic totes that we brought from Georgia. I have not opened them in 5 years-but I built shelves in the garage to store them. My wife is happy though knowing she has this junk with her.

We were at our current office 5 1/2 years, I found boxes of drawings and stuff from our first office we had not used. A LOT of paper. If I stacked it vertically, I bet it would have been 8-10 feet tall.

[Alabuckeye]

When I left my former company in 2014 I brought home a box of stuff. I finally went thru it 5 or 6 years later. Kept one thing.

[Blinky]

[ChinaBuck]

We have now been in the new office for one week. All in all, things are now pretty good. We are mostly organized in our new space, but this coming weekend, I will spend time making sure things are in order. No matter how well you plan, someone doesn't do things the way you want. Sheesh, it was all laid out cabinet by cabinet and workstation by workstation. Oh well.

The general area is certainly more professional than where we were. That said, the Chinese tend to be more casual than their Asian neighbors, which I kind of like. Anyway, I'm going to have to work harder on my sartorial game. After all, "cause every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man. And, haha, if I was young and single, this place is a target rich environment. Many attractive women in every direction.

[ChinaBuck]

5/8 scale girl: Walking to work last Monday I saw in the distance a slim attractive woman. Turns out she wasn't that far ahead of me, she was just really short. I caught up with her at the red light. I'm guessing she was no taller than about 4'-8", probably shorter. Often really short people have exceptionally short legs (as if I should talk) but she was perfectly proportional. That's what made me think she was farther ahead of me. A scale and perspective lesson to be sure. She must work in the same building, I've seen her twice more. I doubt that she weighs more than 75 pounds. As an architect we work on things that are ergonomically geared to women being about 5'-4" and men being about 5'-10". It's tough for people that are significantly shorter or taller than the averages.

[Sanitarian2]

We moved our office about two years ago, 40K plus all kinds of additional, hidden Tech costs once we got there that the boss didn't consider. Movers did a really good job, have to give them credit. We spent a week getting ready, boxing everything up and putting room numbers on it. They took the big stuff first and then the boxes, one room at a time. Only had the office completely shut down for one day, back to full business in three.