A few minor snagging issues…
Snagging is a building term - it’s the faults and issues requiring fixing that are discovered during the handover of a new premesis. My stint with a development team for a housing association last year taught me that.
We have discovered some snagging issues with our move to the new site today. The biggest, from a health and safety point of view, is probably also the daftest.
The architect who redesigned our office area is obviously a fan of natural light. He had all those nasty florescent overhead lights taken out and the empty ports neatly covered over. We have lovely big windows that are wonderful on a sunny day. What did the architect forget?
Replacement lights.
Yes, if the sun goes behind clouds or, god forbit, it gets dark outside as it is wont to do in the evenings, we have no lighting. Ah. Facilities sees our problem, apparently. They’re going to see whether they can rustle up a couple of stand-alone lamps. Not a terribly practical solution due to the layout of the office (my desk, for example, will still be quite dark), but it’s a step there. We’re hoping they sort it out before winter because we won’t have many hours of usable sunlight…
Other issues, such as having no printers (nobody noticed that our department, which has been scattered on other sites for years, has none of its own), missing computers, insufficient electrical sockets and sauna-like heating seem fairly small in comparison.
Although the lack of kitchen facilities is annoying.
One missing computer did cause me some problems - it contains a program that fastloads data into our datawarehouse. I have a trial going on at the moment that requires a weekly data upload to the warehouse. Inserting over 50,000 rows of data from a text file takes a couple of days without this software. The reports for my trial should have gone out today. Someone is popping back to the old site with a car tomorrow so the reports should only be a day late.
Who says working for one of the biggest companies in the country ain’t fun?