What I did today at work

Today I worked on a couple of projects from home, and then went into the office late morning. And by “the office” I don’t mean Exile Island, the frigid attic (as Yvonne put it) on the 3rd floor of McFarlin Auditorium full of boxes of ancient files, t-shirts, envelopes, and old footballs, and which now features card tables with computers for about half of our staff. Today our main task was to pack up our belongings from our flooded office into orange plastic moving crates, in preparation for the Grand Recarpeting Of Spring 2006 (Until The Next Flood).

The interesting thing about the Grand Recarpeting is that we were told to leave our computers and monitors on our desks, and just to empty out about half of our file cabinets. Apparently, they won’t be needing to move our furniture to recarpet.

Are they planning on a) magical levitation, or b) x-acto-ing the carpet around the edges of the desks, file cabinets, and cubicle walls and just laying in carpet squares to fill in the empty spaces? I’m not quite sure how they will manage to effectively lay in new berber without moving the furniture.

But then again, I’m not a Recarpeting Expert. One can only hope that they’re not hiring BKM (“the Keystone Kops of office furniture,” as Brittney puts it) to do the job. (When reconfiguring divider walls in our old building, one of the BKM guys WALLED HIMSELF IN because he had the plans upside down and put the door opening against a wall.)

But as long as it’s somebody else and not me who’s lifting and moving my 100 pound monitor (when they don’t move our furniture), I don’t care. It will be interesting to see if everything gets put back where it belongs (after they don’t move our furniture).