Well, telecommuting is over for now. We managed to get set up in temporary office space three floors down last week. We’ll be down here for 2-3 months while they are repairing the damage to our floor. It only took three days to move the phone/computer systems and furniture, although we didn’t move every single thing. We had custom-made desks in our old digs that won’t fit in the new office.
I finally have separate A/C controls for my office, not that they actually work. If the A/C is on it’s 70 degrees. If it’s office it’s about 80 degrees. The actual temperature adjust doesn’t seem to do anything. It beats upstairs where the person in the office next to me controlled my office too. She was always cold and would crank it up to 75, which was fine for her but my office had all the servers so there was more heat in there. I would break out in a sweat if I stood up too fast. On the plus side, if there can be one at such a time, the move was completed just before my annual bonus was decided and yes, Virginia….there is a Santa Claus.
I have managed to make it through another Christmas without actually setting foot in a store to shop. God bless online stores. I’ve forgotten what its like to fight over mall parking spots at holiday time.
I still have four days of vacation to use up before year end. I can only carry one week over to 2008 and they won’t pay me cash for it.