I have tomorrow off work in honor of Veteran’s Day, so today is like Friday and I’m enjoying it. Today is also that day that I’m finally moving down the hall to my new office, new group, and new job. This move is proceeding just like every other move in my life: I procrastinated until the very last minute and then found myself frantically throwing things into boxes in random order.
Yesterday evening while I was at a sim (which, on another note, was the perfect sim; it was tough, I saw cases I hadn’t seen before, I didn’t mess up too badly, and the small mistakes taught me a lot of really good lessons; it was everything a sim should be), a tech came into my office and unplugged my computer. Now it sits on my desk, unplugged, but not moved. My boxes have not been moved either. My phone, however, has been moved, so my calls go down the hall while I remain sitting here.
The guy who came yesterday had the job of unplugging my computer. Someone else has the job of physically moving it down the hall. A third person has the job of plugging it back in. At no point am I allowed to think about touching it and/or moving it myself.
Yep, I love my government job.
gotta love those union guys.
gotta love gov’t work.
I thought we were bad; I’m not allowed to move furniture or equipment myself but at least the same team of guys does it all at the same time.
And I do get to unplug my own docking station.
But on the downside, I am working tomorrow.
Great system! It was the same way when I worked for the school district. I nearly gave my boss a heart attack when I re-arranged my furniture by myself!