We have now moved. Barely got a "farewell nice knowing you" as I exited on Tuesday with all team stuff in tow. I really love the new office though and the smaller space is more to my likeing. It's really beautiful as well not all open plan, stodgy corporate. It's in a listed Georgian town house with high ceilings and windows and lovely pale blue walls and en extremely soft carpet. It's a bit like working from home. Everyone keeps saying they want to get beds and stay here on weekends lol.
Of course the guy in charge of the old office came by yesterday for a meeting with my boss and was drooling all over it. I know he is kicking himself for making us go as he would rather have moved in here instead of us. His DEFINITE loss not ours
Everyone is so much more relaxed and in a better mood.
I am physically exhausted as I of course had to do most of the moving because my boss wouldn't pay for a moving van and they guys all stood around in their suits yapping whilst I lugged all our stuff over. Men.
We had some issues getting our network set-up and I did warn the team that it might take a couple of days to sort out and they should be prepared to not be able to log on for that time. They said "oh yes we'll be very good little boys and not make a fuss" and what did they do? After about 2hrs kicking and screaming and hassling the tech guys like 4 year olds.
I was here till bloody 9pm whilst the techs worked on the problems and they all pranced off early but I didn't complain because I knew it would happen and pestering the techs doesn't make it better only worse. Yesterday morning I came in and they were sitting there mouthing off about the useless techs ( the techs weren here yet) so I told the guys off. Luckily its a small place just for our team or else I wouldn't have done it but I wanted them to realise they were helping only making the atmosphere tense. I also had to do a lot of sweet talking to get the help we have and I didn't want them to ruin it by acting like primadonnas. They shut up after that and were behaved the rest of the day and the techs sorted it out.
Although our printer decided it doesn't like the new office and had a nervouse break down and now I can't print anything.
