The Move

We are moving out to a new office.

Well, we'll still be in central London over at Euston. We'll be occupying some of the higher floors in one of the tallest office buildings in the City.

Relocating is never my favourite thing to do unless I really need to. Oh well, who's favourite is it anyway!? After all, I'm sitting very comfortably in Holborn and it cannot be more central than it already is.

When I was working in PJ, I had to relocate twice because of the location of the projects. What I did remember was, I had to do everything on my own - packing, transportation and setting up my workstation!

I remember some of the staff in the Malaysian office also took the opportunity to miss out from work and claimed that they couldn't work because the network was not configured in time for them to log into the system.

It's really different in the UK. Or at least in the company I'm working in. Things are more organised and efficient here. In fact, there were so much fun moving out of the office!

We started counting down a month before we needed to move. We have put up a notice on the main door informing of our move and the new address.

Friday was the last day of the last week before we report to the new place on Monday. We threw a little "farewell party" for our office even though everyone will meet again in three days! We had cakes and sweets. Some of us even took it to the pubs during lunch.

I particularly admire the amount of meticulous planning that have been put into making the move as painless as possible. A week before the move, we were given a briefing of our new workstation - who sits where and which desk number. A seating plan was also presented to us even though we don't know how the floor would look like!

Emails also started circulating of a quiz on the first week of our welcome into the office. There are prizes to be won every day. The questions are believed to be based on our project and new office.

Then we were briefed on what, when and how to pack our workstation so that it gets delivered in time and in one piece. We were allocated crates to do that. Our PCs and IT equipment were handled differently.

Crates outside the office. Crates inside the office. Crates all over the place!! We're invaded by plastics!

The coordinators also printed out adhesive tags for us to peel and stick onto individual items to make sure everything gets delivered promptly.

And three have devoured some of our documents

We were given an information pack which included our new ID tags for the building and an invitation for a "welcome breakfast" on Monday.

Writing this seems like a detail account of what happened or a textbook exercise of what should be done when moving out. Maybe it did sound like that but really, this is what happened and I'm really looking forward to seeing everything, everyone, my new workstation and the aerial view of London tomorrow.I am sure everything out of the window will look so much smaller now.