I hate moving (A Rant)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My lab is moving to a lower floor on March 1st. For the last couple of weeks I have been doing move prep-work: measuring equipment, making sure it hasn’t been exposed to radiation or hazardous waste, cataloging supplies, etc. The hardest part is keeping my co-workers informed and on task.

Hey Aussie,
You’re leaving for vacation next week and won’t be back until after the move. Please pack up your desk NOW.
Mouse.

Thrid email. I also mentioned this to him everyday for the past two weeks.

Dear Dr. Boss,
This is just a friendly reminder that we’ll be moving soon and your office needs to be packed. Is it OK for me to start putting papers in boxes?
Thanks,
Mouse.

Fifth email, in addition to several voicemail messages on his phone at the hospital.

Dear Newbie Assistant Prof,
We will be moving in a little over two weeks. Please finish any experiments you have involving radiation and let me know what I can pack and what you want left alone.
Thank,
Mouse.

I’ve lost count. Like Dr. Boss this guy also has hospital rounds, so I rarely ever see him.

General Discontent (everything in italics is what I’ve thought, but haven’t said - yet.):
Dr. Boss: Do I have to go through all this radiation training? Why can’t one of the post-docs do it?
Only faculty can get a rad license. We can’t use the Department Head’s license anymore, so you have to get one. Give one of the post-docs a faculty position and I’m sure they’ll be happy to do the training in your stead, and that’s not going to happen because we don’t have the money for faculty pay.

Dr. Boss: They’re making us move and they’re charging us for it? We have to pay for phone and internet service. What do they do with the 50% of my grant money they take?!
The U is a pimp. Now go hustle your ass for some more grant money.

Newbie Assistant Prof: I’m not sure if staying with you guys is such a good idea.
*Make up your mind quick! I don’t want to pack all of your shit just to find out your not going – I’ve got better things to do. *

Kill me now!

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I hear you. The lab I worked in moved last spring. I missed packing everything up but I spent the first week of the summer unpacking things. Which in a way was good, because now I know where everything is :smiley:

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Thanks. :slight_smile: There are some perks to this. I can’t get fired right now, I’m in charge of the move. They can’t sack me after because I’ll know where everything is.
Is your lab hiring? Mouse_Spouse and I visited Edinburgh this past October and I’d love to live there. :wink:

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The lab I work in is actually in Rhode Island. I’m just spending a semester studying abroad :slight_smile: Edinburgh’s a great place though, and the University seems pretty excellent.

5

Well, shoot. I hope you enjoy the semester. :slight_smile:

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Meh. Sounds like an office move, but with radiation.

Why do you need to know my cost center?
Movers are expensive, and I’m sure as heck not paying for them!

Why do I have to pack my files up now?
They’re freaking inactive files! Why aren’t they already packed and sent to Archives?

Where’s my mouse?
Dunno! You chose to pack up your PC, rather than letting the IT group handle it. I notice that they’ve not lost any computer parts.

It’s costing HOW much per phone line to move them?!
$110 per.

I know how to do phone wiring! I could have done it for free!
You have a 2000-line system with voice mail, ACD queues and a VOIP connection to the metro fiber at home? The last time someone other than The Phone Guy touched that system, half of the phones in the building had phantom rings and the other half had static. I’m not even going to let you know where the phone system is, much less look at it!

Where’s my chair? Someone else has MY chair! WHO has my CHAIR!
Sit on it.