I hate this cough. It's ridiculous. Blowing my nose doesn't help because I'm not snotty. I have just enough to tickle my throat and set of coughing spasms. And for some reason, the Robutussin isn't really working and I may have to kill someone.

You need a genie and a lamp.

Or a monkey paw, but you have to be really careful with those things. Last fall, I wished my wealth would increase relative to the rest of the country. Shoulda left off the relative part.

Has anyone here coordinated a big office move? If so, I would happily take any advice or anecdotes on what to make sure I have/do, things that will come up that I wouldn't have thought of, etc. And if you had to do a budget for it, advice on that, as well.

I'm coordinating our move into new office space and the pocurement of new (to us) office furniture and and and....

Any advice would be much appreciated.

You need a genie and a lamp.

That would maybe be easier to get at this point. Oh -- the magic of posting! One person just said five more minutes, and the other one half came through. PHEW.

Sorry for the bitterness. I know it's perfectly natural, just a part of growing up, an expected part of being a teenager... but I really do get tired sometime of the number of absolute judgments they're fond of handing down based on a few snippets of info and (maybe) their parents' opinions. The fact that some people have spent their lives on specializing in and researching stuff? Totally trumped by a 16-year-old's infinite knowledge and immediate response.

And I'm sleepy. It'll all be better tomorrow. I actually do admire their willingness to engage with me, knowing that I disagree with them, and they do it (mostly) very politely. We need more of that. I just wish they were capable of saying, "I don't really know much about this."

Scientists who can only get grant money if they go with the established line about climate change. Environmental groups who are able to raise more money if they can instill a sense of crisis.

I've known and worked with both scientists in environmental fields and environmental groups. They ain't rollin'.

ION - cat vs. bunny: [link]

Has anyone here coordinated a big office move? If so, I would happily take any advice or anecdotes on what to make sure I have/do, things that will come up that I wouldn't have thought of, etc. And if you had to do a budget for it, advice on that, as well.

It wasn't THAT big an office (about 20 people total) but I did coordinate it.

My one stroke of genius was to get the floorplan and number the rooms. Then we put big numbered stickers on every-blessed-thing that was going over there. EVERY thing. Then I put copies of the numbered floorplan all over the place. And great big number signs in each of the rooms. I was a reall little PitA about the stickers.

The solitary item that got misplaced was a printer that Beth (that ditz) had to spend half our first day looking for. She had NOT PUT A NUMBER ON IT because, and I still remember this vividly, "Everyone knows what my printer looks like."

Other than Beth, we resumed full operation the very next day.

Aims, I was the deputy for my department of 12 people for a big-ass office move that involved more than 100 people. The main person was the building manager (who was awesome). My tips include: change makes people wig out, so you will do a lot of hand-holding; plan "getting rid of crap from your files" days well in advance - bring out the shredder and make it a party from 3-5 on a Friday; provide boxes and labels - one color label for each person or some scheme like that (we had numbers - every single person in the move had a number); make a plan for plants and fragile stuff - a holding area where they can be placed temporarily; have ONE person, preferably IT, move the computers and phones, and give VERY detailed instructions about how they should be left by the staff; communicate a LOT with your staff so they feel confident that you are on top of things and wig out less.

I don't know anything about getting new furniture, sorry.

Fortunately, we have the new furniture (mostly) taken care of - donations from the county. The rest we'll buy used.

I am printing out those posts and putting them in my move folder.

Thanks so much!!