Tales from Chaos Central

The Thomas Danby Office here at the Pakistani Centre has now got some new office furniture. Now it's all set up, it actually looks pretty good. But getting to the current state was... eventful, to say the least.

Why do things never seem to go straightforward?

Although I support the classroom PCs and not the office ones, I am someone onsite who's good with computers. So I was asked on Wednesday to disconnect all of the PCs on Thursday, ready for when the people would be coming to clear out the old furniture.
Simple. Until I turned up on Thursday morning to be told that they'd just found out we were first on the list or centres being done, and we needed to empty out now. So I was rapidly disconnecting 2 PCs at the same time as the Admin Staff were clearing the desks and workmen were disassembling shelves.

On Friday, when the desks were delivered and fitted, it soon became apparent that the measurements were wrong. It wasn't the furniture people's fault, though. They were given the measurements by whoever fromt he college did it. They would have measured them as part of the package, however, and then made sure that everything fitted.
Not good.

By 3pm we'd all had enough and were stressing big-time. So we cleared off home.

Yesterday (Monday) things slowly started to pull together. We worked out what needed to go where. College sent a joiner around to cut bits out of the desks to fit against the wall around pipes and radiators. I reconnected the computers, meaning they had access to those things again.
By the time I went home at about half-four yesterday afternoon, it was acutally starting to look good.