Unfortunately, no. The only other person here is our newest resident, who doesn't know the system any better than I do. All the senior chaplains are at an offsite event today. Which is why this would be a great day to move things around if only it was going smoothly.

That sucks. I am totally out of advice. Look, something cute!

Susan- you work at a university, right?

It is always this fucked up at universities, in my experience. You can give people a hundred drawings and instructions, but they will never actually transmit them to the person doing the work. Probably new boss will understand this, if she has ever worked in a large bureaucracy before.

Also, I usually just move my computer myself on my office chair because it takes several weeks for work orders to be processed and I don't trust the facilities guys. As long as there is already a network drop in place, I bet you can move it, and at least be out of big boss's hair and ready to work on Monday.

Also, it sucks and it frustrating.

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Susan- you work at a university, right?

I work at a county hospital that is administered by a university hospital system (and all of us are on the university/state payroll). Which probably makes it even worse in terms of bureaucratic nightmares. It's been driving me crazy ever since I started here because half the systems are the university ones I know pretty well, and half are completely unique to the hospital, and there's no way other than experience to know what's what--no classes on understanding the budget reports, nothing about administrative systems and where to go to ask for what for new employees, etc.

I'm going to try to move my computer myself, but I'm nervous that I won't know how to re-connect it. It's more complicated than my set-up at home or any of the ones I used to take apart and put together back when I was doing volunteer work that included setting up computers for a kids' recreation program.

Which probably makes it even worse in terms of bureaucratic nightmares.

Yeah, that sounds like several extra layers of crap right there. I'm sorry. So frustrating.

Oh, ack. Yeah, that sounds like some really gnarly bureaucraxy right there. Sorry about the frustration, Susan.

vw, that doesn't sound good. I hope everything is okay for them.

grab some tape mark everything with letters - a1 on one end of the cord with the matching place it plugs into the computer also lettera1, a on the cord, a2 is the on other end and a2 where is should plug in - unless it belongs in the wall.

pain in the butt, however, it seems like a better plan than the facilities guy

half the systems are the university ones I know pretty well, and half are completely unique to the hospital, and there's no way other than experience to know what's what--no classes on understanding the budget reports, nothing about administrative systems and where to go to ask for what for new employees, etc.

I did this too a couple of years ago-- I made some pretty big errors, actually, but I learned it eventually. Is there some sort of "Administrator's Group" that you could join that you may not know about. We have one here, and even though it is lame, you tend to be able to make connections so that you can call other hospital department administrators and ask for help.

Also, the idea Beth had for marking is a really good one!

Good idea, beth--now, to see if I can remember where I packed the tape and the color-coded sticky flags...