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Wow, I remember the last time you moved. Have you managed to wangle a better view this time?

My office moved a few months back, and I had to sacrifice a stunning view over St Katharines dock towards Docklands, for a better commute which is more centralised and easier for shopping etc.

Great post, DG...

and will you keep a few crates hanging about until next move, even though they probably have to be collected by the movers on Wednesday?

And what about leaving that sticky label on the back of your chair for another 9 months...?!?

Have fun!

Keep the crates, don't hire them, and don't unpack them. Leave them stacked up neatly in a corner. Any crate that has moved office twice and hasn't been opened is by defition containing nothing important, and can be emptied into the shredder ready for refilling.

I had the fun of packing up my office yesterday, today I have to unpack. Today is also the day of hard deadlines.

Thank god for Tea.

the most important thing you have mentioned: will yur journey be longer or shoter and involved more or less [fewer?] changes on the tube?

I only have half a crate of stuff. There are many possible reasons behind this:
1) I'm too junior to have accumulated much paper
2) My company is too tight to hire enough crates come moving-time and therefore encourages "sharing"
3) The scourge of modern office life: hot-desking.


I seem to remember you moving too - the last place was where you couldn't use a kettle (or am I completely confused)?).

Good luck - I was once in charge of an entire office move and ended up packing everybody else's rubbish for them too. It was also during stonkingly hot weather - drink water, lots.

You have delivery men? Luxury! In my one and only office move, we hoarded cardboard boxes for a while, hired a van, and did the move ourselves.

At least you won't be stranded in the old office

I'm also packing up. I have to move two desks away. My new desk is completely broken and unusable. IT sits there with the wood vertical. I can't wait.

Moves do present opportunities, though. When "Facilities Management" insist that disposing of obsolete or dead computer kit is an IT problem, and Corporate IT is totally adamant that getting rid of junk that just happens to be computer kit is a Facilities matter, then a big enough move presents an excellent opportunity for some judicious internal fly-tipping.

As a departmental IT wallah, ie piggy in the middle, I have found office moves exceptionally productive in this area. In principle "they" could trace serial numbers and have a go at you, at which point you shrug your shoulders and claim their records are inaccurate. In practice they're too busy and too relieved to have got through the move in one piece that they just deal with it.

A biggish office move is also a formal project which attracts a (usually fairly flexible) budget. It is sometimes possible to get things done as part of a move that would be damned near impossible under business as usual.

Ah the political joys of the large corporate.











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