Moving Day

I am not enjoying my day today. It seems to me to be a colossal waste. It is moving day.

My new office is worse than the one I came from. It is smaller. It is in a higher trafficked area. It has busy people on every side of it, so I can't use it for meetings or phone calls. Yes, my new office is closer to my staff. Yes, my new office makes it easier to do some quick visual management. My heart, though, is struggling to see the good things.

Currently, I am in a nearly empty office. My white board and boxes of project binders are not here. They are still sitting in 11 cardboard boxes downstairs. My phone did arrive just a whole ago, but my headset is still missing. I do have my laptop, but my docking station, monitor, keyboard and mouse are not with it. Working is like working in mud.

As I'm writing this, the guy who is moving my computer stuff has it all in a cart. I'm happy he is here. He is friendly, but it is another interupption in a day of interruptions. I am nice to him and make conversation. He has no idea he just appeared in this blog.

If my boxes get here soon, I'll be able to get a few them unpacked before it is time to go. Perhaps I'll even be able to figure out how to make the most of this workspace. I've got a space where the white board can go. I've got ideas on developing a project display with Reuben, who is now right beside me.

Actually, this new space has evoked some new ideas. Plans of things I can do here that I couldn't do from downstairs. Answer more questions face to face, build better relationships and communicate more clearly all the things my area is doing. The lack of
Rivacy has the advantage of transparency. While the office is smaller, there are more than enough conference rooms near by. I just got to help a couple of my staff, which before would have taken a while.

I still hate moving, but it is possible that this one is not that bad.