Did The Move Make You Crazy Or Were You Crazy Before The Move?

FACTS

1. You are moving your office across town in a two-day process.
2. You have hired a moving company to move your filing cabinets and boxed-up files on Day One.
3. You have ordered all new furniture, which will be delivered and installed on Days One and Two.
4. Your computer network will be moved and set up on Day Two.

QUESTIONABLE DECISIONS

1. You plan to move a bunch of boxes over ahead of time. By yourself. In your pickup truck.
2. You tell your employees they are responsible for moving the non-client-related contents of their own offices. In their cars.
3. You poo-poo the suggestion of a simple consecutive-number labeling system to organize the move because we are just moving across town.
4. You opt instead for a color-coded system where eight different people keep eight different lists and no one is responsible for the overall picture. Because it is simpler that way.

QUESTIONS ON THOSE DECISIONS

1. Why would you move boxes yourself when,
   - You are already paying someone to move you,
   - You cannot unpack them because you have no furniture in/on which to store the contents, and
   - They will be in the way of the movers and furniture assemblers?
2. Why would you ask your employees to move things in their own vehicles? Do you not trust the moving company you have hired? If that is the case, why did you choose them?
3. If I am only responsible for my own office, who gets stuck with the common areas like the kitchen and the file room?
4. Why did you give me this project if you already knew how you wanted to organize it?

CONCLUSIONS

1. I am only a team player when you do it my way.
2. When you say, "Think about it," I hear "Come up with a plan, implement it, and let me know when the job is done."
3. Appreciation after-the-fact does not make up for unpleasantness along the way.
4. I need to start drinking again.

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