Work is Hell

Well, the old stress meter at work is pegging out. Not that my work could ever be considerred relaxing, but with the renovations, everyone is pretty much dancing on the razor's edge. Now it is worse. The workers basically made a big mess, then left. We haven't seen them in over a month. They wander in on the odd weekend and pile drywall scraps in the new water coolers. They unhooked and removed out old water fountain. Then about 2 weeks later, they came and mounted the new ones on the wall of the new bathroom and left. There is no plumbing running to them, so basically they are acting as containers for the drywall scraps. Of course, they don't look so nice or so new now. Since one of the main projects was to make a larger ladies rest room, they moved the old one to a temporary location. About the time the water fountains were hung, they did something to the toilet. It wasn't level anymore. The women now refer to it as the "rollercoaster". Apparently a trip to the restroom is now a trip to a really weird theme park.

Anyway, we are all to get new office furniture, carpet, paint, the works. So the old stuff has to go. We were notified Wednesday about the 4 phase renovation plan. Basically we are were told to have all our personal stuff out of our offices by Monday (today) close of business. Then by Wednesday we were to have all our files and work stuff boxed up. A moving company was to come in and move all the old stuff out to a secure storage location and move all our old furniture to central stores. We were to receive temporary tables and chairs to work with and were to double up on offices. That way the empty offices would be renovated, we would relocate to renovated offices and the other offices would be done. This was to be done in 3 stages. I don't really know how we could double up, you would need two phone and two computer outlets that we don't have, and it is hard to have two thugs, I mean clients, in the same office. My office isn't very large anyway. More than two people is stretching things as is.

Well, we were told, it has all been figured out, they will run extra plugs for phone and computer. Well I took Friday off for personal reasons. I took some personal stuff out Thursday. I came in Saturday for some bulkier items and my desk was gone. I was told that someone from a Nashville location came and took 5 desks for a new unit they were setting up. I came in Monday and went to court. I finished by lunch and went back to the office. My chair was gone. Someone from either McMinnville or Chattanooga got it. One group took 2 desks and 2 chairs. Another 20 chairs. We can't have our staff meeting Wednesday, because we now don't have enough chairs for everyone to sit down. We may also miss training, so maybe it all isn't bad. I scavaged a rickety old computer desk and a chair that makes me lean forward at a 30 degree angle to work from. Now we are supposed to have our cabinets and desks cleaned out by Wednesday. The moving companies haven't even put in bids yet. Our boxes won't be here until Friday, our temporary furniture won't be here until a week from Friday. But the vultures are circling picking us clean. We have three officers sitting on the floor with no chairs or desks. My visitor chairs are so crappy noone wants them yet. Man is this stupid.