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Visio o o oh baby.
Jul. 22nd, 2009 03:07 pmI have just spent more than half my day redrawing my boss's elaborately detailed plans for our possible new office space.
COMB's main priorities seem to be where to fit his oriental rug and WWII posters. My priorities include things like people having actual phones that will ring, perhaps even with the correct extensions.
He had a lovely hand-drawn-on-tracing-paper-using-little-plastic-templates diagram. Except the measurements were incorrect in 2 places. I've redone them in Visio (trial version) with all the phone jacks and electrical outlets marked, as well as where we will need the data jacks installed.
He wanted the copier on one wall, and I put it on the opposite - partly because everyone in the office is right-handed and partly because otherwise it would be next to the sink and I have actually met me.
Thank the gods he left town this morning until next Monday, because it's a lot easier to actually make progress when I'm not having to listen to tirades about what color the file dividers need to be. Srsly. Also it was wonderful to finally toss half of the crap in the supply cabinets. I mean, we don't even have a UPS account, so why do we have shipping supplies? Same thing with Post Office Express Mail - chances are that if we've not used it since I started here in February of 2007 then we aren't likely to need it any time soon. And the software disks for computers and phone systems we don't have any more, the broken hole-punches, the what-the-hell-is-this-for-anyway....all gone.
We actually found the combination to the locked file cabinet in the basement storage room. I still can't open it, but I've got some hints now. Clearly I am not destined for a career as a safe cracker. I'm torn between "It must be important because they actually locked it up" and "It can't be that important because no one has needed whatever it is for nearly 9 years"
A little time now to work on the mail, and then back to boxing/tossing files.
COMB's main priorities seem to be where to fit his oriental rug and WWII posters. My priorities include things like people having actual phones that will ring, perhaps even with the correct extensions.
He had a lovely hand-drawn-on-tracing-paper-using-little-plastic-templates diagram. Except the measurements were incorrect in 2 places. I've redone them in Visio (trial version) with all the phone jacks and electrical outlets marked, as well as where we will need the data jacks installed.
He wanted the copier on one wall, and I put it on the opposite - partly because everyone in the office is right-handed and partly because otherwise it would be next to the sink and I have actually met me.
Thank the gods he left town this morning until next Monday, because it's a lot easier to actually make progress when I'm not having to listen to tirades about what color the file dividers need to be. Srsly. Also it was wonderful to finally toss half of the crap in the supply cabinets. I mean, we don't even have a UPS account, so why do we have shipping supplies? Same thing with Post Office Express Mail - chances are that if we've not used it since I started here in February of 2007 then we aren't likely to need it any time soon. And the software disks for computers and phone systems we don't have any more, the broken hole-punches, the what-the-hell-is-this-for-anyway....all gone.
We actually found the combination to the locked file cabinet in the basement storage room. I still can't open it, but I've got some hints now. Clearly I am not destined for a career as a safe cracker. I'm torn between "It must be important because they actually locked it up" and "It can't be that important because no one has needed whatever it is for nearly 9 years"
A little time now to work on the mail, and then back to boxing/tossing files.
