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For the past few months everyone has been on two lower floors of our office as they remodel the top floor since my company is going to stop using the lower 3 floors and only use the top floor.
Everyone was warned about this and even was given opportunities to make requests - sit next to who, anything special they need, etc..
We even have professional movers who are paid to move everyone's "stuff" - as long as it is tagged and boxed.
Of course, everyone ignored the requests emails (yes, multiple) but yesterday being the "move" day - no one was supposed to be in the office (except the crew, movers, and your's truly since I am the IT person). We're already getting complaints:
- They don't like where they're sitting. Tough, deal with it.
- They're too far from the printer now. Tough, deal with it.
- They don't like the person in the cube next to them. Tough, deal with it - this isn't elementary school - it's a corporate office.
- None of their customers have the new fax numbers. Tough, you were given the new fax numbers months ago, you had plenty of time to let your customers know.
- They don't have an electrical outlet buy the desk part of the cube like a couple of other people have. Seriously? Get an f-ing power strip.
- They want a window seat. Tough.
- It's not their job to pack up their stuff. Guess what? It's not the mover's job either but it is their job to throw out anything left behind.
And of course, come Monday morning I'll be inundated with whiners, some I've already seen.
- I need both data ports active because sometimes my manager is here. (Tough - we have a very limited number of data ports on the switch so I can't appease everyone. When your boss is here he can use one of the work-anywhere (unassigned) cubes.
- I need admin rights to install the printers. (No you don't - just go to the web page that you were told to go to).
- I don't know how to connect my laptop. (You've been doing it ever since you've had it - why the sudden amnesia?)
Of course, I also get all the non-technical complaints - they want another file cabinet, they want another shelf, they want a "pencil drawer" - all while I'm trying to decommission 3 floors worth of IT equipment (including 70+ CRT monitors, tons of networking equipment, 100+ battery backups, boxes and boxes of old equipment, etc..). Sure, I'll have nothing to do.
I do have to admit, though, this has been like a walk though history. Some of the equipment I'm finding is extremely old - routers not used in over 10 years, old switches, I even found a PCMCIA card with a BNC connector on it.
Everyone was warned about this and even was given opportunities to make requests - sit next to who, anything special they need, etc..
We even have professional movers who are paid to move everyone's "stuff" - as long as it is tagged and boxed.
Of course, everyone ignored the requests emails (yes, multiple) but yesterday being the "move" day - no one was supposed to be in the office (except the crew, movers, and your's truly since I am the IT person). We're already getting complaints:
- They don't like where they're sitting. Tough, deal with it.
- They're too far from the printer now. Tough, deal with it.
- They don't like the person in the cube next to them. Tough, deal with it - this isn't elementary school - it's a corporate office.
- None of their customers have the new fax numbers. Tough, you were given the new fax numbers months ago, you had plenty of time to let your customers know.
- They don't have an electrical outlet buy the desk part of the cube like a couple of other people have. Seriously? Get an f-ing power strip.
- They want a window seat. Tough.
- It's not their job to pack up their stuff. Guess what? It's not the mover's job either but it is their job to throw out anything left behind.
And of course, come Monday morning I'll be inundated with whiners, some I've already seen.
- I need both data ports active because sometimes my manager is here. (Tough - we have a very limited number of data ports on the switch so I can't appease everyone. When your boss is here he can use one of the work-anywhere (unassigned) cubes.
- I need admin rights to install the printers. (No you don't - just go to the web page that you were told to go to).
- I don't know how to connect my laptop. (You've been doing it ever since you've had it - why the sudden amnesia?)
Of course, I also get all the non-technical complaints - they want another file cabinet, they want another shelf, they want a "pencil drawer" - all while I'm trying to decommission 3 floors worth of IT equipment (including 70+ CRT monitors, tons of networking equipment, 100+ battery backups, boxes and boxes of old equipment, etc..). Sure, I'll have nothing to do.
I do have to admit, though, this has been like a walk though history. Some of the equipment I'm finding is extremely old - routers not used in over 10 years, old switches, I even found a PCMCIA card with a BNC connector on it.
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