Friday, my boss told me to have all my guys show up before 8a today for a department move. We have staggered start times, so for a couple of my guys this is pretty early. With the promise of breakfast burrito's and donuts, everyone showed up at the designated time. The plan was to un-box and setup all the new equipment, and image all the computers (meaning to install the operating system and necessary software) in place to save time.
We loaded up our cart with all the equipment needed to move the requested department into the new area, and headed out to start the day before it got too hot. We support the smallest distribution center (warehouse) in our company, and it covers just over 600,000 square feet. It is not temperature controller, so during the Texas summers it tends to get a little warm.
While the guys were taking the equipment over, I stayed behind to finish a few things up, then headed over to check on them. When I walked up, they are all standing around with all the equipment still on the cart. My most senior tech walks over.
Nick: Is this the right place? Or is it over there? (He points a ways off)
Me: No, this is it. Why? What's wrong?
Nick: There's no power.
Me: *looks around* What?
Nick: Remember last summer when we moved that other department out of this area? They had everything connected to one 25 foot extension cord and a really long power strip?
Me: ...oh yeah. Let's go find
So off we go to talk to the manager, who is still in the morning warehouse meeting. I open the door to the conference room and am greeted with some "not so friendly" glares.
Operations Director: Can I help you?
Me: We're trying to do the move for , but there's no power in the area.
Facilities supervisor: Oh, well they're coming to pull electrical over there tomorrow.
Me: ...*turns around and walks out*
For this being a technology company, they sure don't think things through very much.
/smh
