Bleh, we've been moving everything at work, out of my dad's house where we were previously at and into the new digs. Talk about tough work... first, there are the tons of boxes. Second, there are the multiple machines (five G4s) and monitors (another five) and the tons of cables that connect everything. And three guesses as far as who gets to set all that stuff up...
On top of all this, I got to build both a desk and a lateral file. Did the construction go smoothly? Hell no! I managed to screw up the desk so many times it wasn't funny (well, now it is, but at the moment, it was just plain frustrating). The desk, you see, was designed so that its shelving unit could be on the left or right side (which is a good idea), but that means that all the relevant pieces have holes in them for either configuration. That means that construction is just a bit more difficult, and when you have your head as far up your ass as I apparently had mine, it gets very difficult.
When we moved in, we also found that we didn't have an internet connection. Joy of joys, when email is the lifeblood of the company. Emailing clients a PDF saves us so much time, and having them email us revision information lets us update the job quickly and easily... without an internet connection, we couldn't do a damn thing.
Oh, did I mention the fabulous phone system, the one that is fabulously overly complicated? We finally got our stupid voicemail to work, but then we couldn't change the generic greeting message, which directed missed calls to the company directory...which we didn't have... which meant that no one knew what our extensions were. Yay! A few (extremely angry) phone calls by my dad, and voila, we're walked through the phone system over the phone (oddly enough) and now we have a working system.
On top of it all, throughout our attempting to get business up and running, we kept realizing that we needed "just one more thing..." back in Nashville (we're now based out of Franklin, which is about 25 minutes away).
As I said, moving sucks.
Posted by Eric at January 12, 2004 09:22 PMHaving moved, lemme see, 4 times within 3 years, I can totally agree with you there. We never encountered any of the problems you did, but it still sucked a lot. I really hate moving.
Posted by: monster at January 12, 2004 11:06 PM