and, amazingly, all of my boxes, books, furniture etc seem to have been successfully conveyed to my new office. Now all I have to do is unpack everything.
Glad you survived the move. This reminds me of the time several years ago when we moved some of our offices and computer equipment from the 5th floor to the 4th floor.
One of the computer techs was moving an old (verily almost antique) DEC tape drive in the elevator. Unfortunately, when the door closed the power cord was caught in the door. He watched dumfounded as the tape drive seemingly levitated to the ceiling of the elevator car, then crashed to the floor when the power cord was eventually pulled out.
Amazingly, it still worked afterwards, although it was slightly dented in the experience.
Mind if I call “urban legend” on this one? Either there are entirely too many careless office movers out there, or this is an oft-retold egend - I’ve heard several variations on this, all involving some sort of “dinosaur” device that takes a beating in the elevator and survives with a dent or two.
Not to say I haven’t witnessed things like new computers and monitors falling off carts and being destroyed. A 19" monitor will hiss quite loudly for about a second or two when dropped and the CRT is cracked.
As for other office moving horror stories I’ve had the joys of knowing… Another department moved into empty space on our floor a few months ago, and realized one box didn’t make the trip - some genius decided to box things up by type, rather than by cube. Result was 7 users all with no power cables for their monitors and PCs, no ethernet cables and no phone cables. :smack:
Another goodie was an interstate data center move. An entire server got left behind. Not that it was terribly obvious - just another rackmount box from a room filled with dozens of racks filled with hundreds of rackmount boxes, not making its way onto a truck with more dozens of similar boxes.
In this case, it’s not an urban legend. I actually saw the tape drive and heard the story shortly after it happened. There may be similar stories of questionable veracity, but I’ll personally vouch for this one.
As the veteran of many moves (I’m currently in my seventh office in four years; no wait, this is number eight), I’d suggest maybe you don’t. My present office has three pre-packed boxes from the last move, and a partially-unpacked box for the essentials on my desk.
I am thus in an excellent position for the next move which was just announced for about a month from now. 
We’ve been expecting to change buildings since August but nobody seems to know exactly when. At first, it was “sometime between Labor Day & Christmas”, now it’s either 24 Janurary or 24 February.
The building we’re moving to? A mile away and right next door to the same building we moved out of five years ago.