Dude! I'm good but...
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hlmaueraThis is ridiculous!
Today I started the day by dealing with grumpy faculty who don't like their room assignments. It continued through out the day. "Why is my office smaller than hers? Why don't we have shades on our windows? My room is too hot I want a different room. I don't want to share an office with him!" Oh dear, people, please make the best of it. We are moving from 25,000 square feet to 12,000. I'm going to have an 8' x 8' office in which my current furniture won't even fit. The new furniture has much less work space and no drawers yet. It's going to be just as hot as any place else on the floor and I have one window which is not accessible to view. Be adults and suck it up!
The Pepsi company seems confused about what they are supposed to do with our soda dispenser and our water dispenser...Apparently, they think they are removing both but we want water service in the new building. I hadn't called about the water dispenser yet.
I had to notify the furniture rep that of the 56 chairs we purchased 6 years ago that have a 7 year warranty, 56 of them have develop cracks or breaks at one specific stress point. We just ordered 48 more so I hope that they stand behind the warranty. Four of the 12 tables have damaged corners that need to be repaired. The rep requested that I take pictures to represent the damage. Taking and uploading the pictures took a bit of time.
Community network was late for the 11 am meeting. I have amassed my own little army of computers to be surplussed. They were supposed to come over and start wiping the hard drive so that they can be reused by other-I said they are wiping the memories so they can be good little soldiers in another army. The tech showed up at about 11:30 and promptly started setting up a massive work station of computers deconstructing--which conveniently blocks the entrance to my desk. I've got about a foot of space to use as an entry.
Before lunch I had to send an email to the project manager requesting that he find a contracter to do some painting in specific offices and telling him to which account to charge it. I reminded him of unfinished construction and that since the contractors made an error in the kinds of locks they purchased and installed, I expect they would replace them at no cost to us.
In between I scheduled meetings for the dean and dealt with other scheduling issues.
Late afternoon I had a consult with a grant funded center housed with us about their phone needs in the new building and finalized the data and phone port drops (adds). I meant to finalize all the Telecom and data moves but we had a big batch of data due this afternoon which I'd assigned a student to collect and organize. When I went to send it to the person writing the actual report, I discovered the data wasn't even close to what was needed. My students are usually so very good. I don't double check them often but we must have really miscommunicated about this data. When I opened that spreadsheet I just wanted to cry. So from 2:30-5:00 (with interruptions, I assure you) I was trying to reconstruct the data myself and begging for some time to finish it up. There was no way I could complete the collation of the data but I did manage to gather all the raw data and I received a little extra time. We'll try to finish it up by Tuesday evening.
The project manager has been assuring me that the packing boxes and labels would arrive today and so we'd notified faculty that they could pick up from our office on Monday. When I went to collect something out of our marketing closet about 4:30 I discovered a pile of boxes and packing tape leaning against the corner of the elevator. The Associate Dean found that they'd been distributed on every floor that way. This would be fine if we had an unlimited supply but we don't and human nature being what it is, we figured one person would take the entire stack and pack one box at a time but not let anyone else have boxes. So he collected them all and brought them into the office where we will distribute them fairly. There are, unfortunately, no labels.
Even lunch wasn't a break because people whined at me the whole time.
Oh I'm so tired. And it only gets worse from here.
Today I started the day by dealing with grumpy faculty who don't like their room assignments. It continued through out the day. "Why is my office smaller than hers? Why don't we have shades on our windows? My room is too hot I want a different room. I don't want to share an office with him!" Oh dear, people, please make the best of it. We are moving from 25,000 square feet to 12,000. I'm going to have an 8' x 8' office in which my current furniture won't even fit. The new furniture has much less work space and no drawers yet. It's going to be just as hot as any place else on the floor and I have one window which is not accessible to view. Be adults and suck it up!
The Pepsi company seems confused about what they are supposed to do with our soda dispenser and our water dispenser...Apparently, they think they are removing both but we want water service in the new building. I hadn't called about the water dispenser yet.
I had to notify the furniture rep that of the 56 chairs we purchased 6 years ago that have a 7 year warranty, 56 of them have develop cracks or breaks at one specific stress point. We just ordered 48 more so I hope that they stand behind the warranty. Four of the 12 tables have damaged corners that need to be repaired. The rep requested that I take pictures to represent the damage. Taking and uploading the pictures took a bit of time.
Community network was late for the 11 am meeting. I have amassed my own little army of computers to be surplussed. They were supposed to come over and start wiping the hard drive so that they can be reused by other-I said they are wiping the memories so they can be good little soldiers in another army. The tech showed up at about 11:30 and promptly started setting up a massive work station of computers deconstructing--which conveniently blocks the entrance to my desk. I've got about a foot of space to use as an entry.
Before lunch I had to send an email to the project manager requesting that he find a contracter to do some painting in specific offices and telling him to which account to charge it. I reminded him of unfinished construction and that since the contractors made an error in the kinds of locks they purchased and installed, I expect they would replace them at no cost to us.
In between I scheduled meetings for the dean and dealt with other scheduling issues.
Late afternoon I had a consult with a grant funded center housed with us about their phone needs in the new building and finalized the data and phone port drops (adds). I meant to finalize all the Telecom and data moves but we had a big batch of data due this afternoon which I'd assigned a student to collect and organize. When I went to send it to the person writing the actual report, I discovered the data wasn't even close to what was needed. My students are usually so very good. I don't double check them often but we must have really miscommunicated about this data. When I opened that spreadsheet I just wanted to cry. So from 2:30-5:00 (with interruptions, I assure you) I was trying to reconstruct the data myself and begging for some time to finish it up. There was no way I could complete the collation of the data but I did manage to gather all the raw data and I received a little extra time. We'll try to finish it up by Tuesday evening.
The project manager has been assuring me that the packing boxes and labels would arrive today and so we'd notified faculty that they could pick up from our office on Monday. When I went to collect something out of our marketing closet about 4:30 I discovered a pile of boxes and packing tape leaning against the corner of the elevator. The Associate Dean found that they'd been distributed on every floor that way. This would be fine if we had an unlimited supply but we don't and human nature being what it is, we figured one person would take the entire stack and pack one box at a time but not let anyone else have boxes. So he collected them all and brought them into the office where we will distribute them fairly. There are, unfortunately, no labels.
Even lunch wasn't a break because people whined at me the whole time.
Oh I'm so tired. And it only gets worse from here.
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