Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
Oh my, it's been a while since I've been to my blog! Hope everyone is doing well!
Things have been crazy on this end, so here are the updates!
My bank is doing some "cost saving" things, which don't involve lay offs. The office that I work out of can hold up to about 300 people. Of course, it's been pretty empty since Covid, and everyone started working remotely. The bank has decided that they will now only lease half of the space. This means that the floorspace will literally be split in half, and a wall will be put up, and another business will end up leasing that space. Our section of the office is also being reconfigured, with a new floor plan. This meant that we had to go through all the cubicles and file cabinets, toss out whatever junk we could, shred up any expired documents, and make sure everything that we were losing access to was empty.
While this was going on, the decision was made to close a commercial location in Southern Jersey (again, no lay offs). Someone went through that location, and said that they located 10 file cabinets full of commercial files that needed to be boxed up and moved. They picked our location for storage, and they basically told me and another team member that we needed to go to this location (90 minute drive away), box up these files, and bring them back. We spent 4 hours boxing and loading, and were able to only get 2 cabinets worth of files into our vehicles when we ran out of room.
The issue was that we only had one week's time before we lost access to the building.
My coworker and I had a Teams call with the powers that be, and told them that if they wanted this files moved to our location, the bank was going to need to hire a moving crew with a large van, and have them pack it up and bring it to us. Thankfully, they were able to get this accomplished last Monday, just a day before we lost access to the building on May 1st.
On a personal note, I hadn't been able to go to my parents' home for a while. Dad got sick, and it turned into pneumonia. After being diagnosed with pneumonia, mom called me to let me know she had caught Covid, and passed it to my brother, Chris.
Thankfully, everyone managed to recover from their ailments as of this past Monday (the 29th). Dad is fine, and mom and Chris tested negative on Sunday the 28th.
Needless to say, I'm very tired!
Thankfully, just by coincidence, I had scheduled this coming week for vacation. I'm not going anywhere, it's a "stay-cation" and I intend to do some spring cleaning around the apartment. I'll be cleaning the windows, then putting up the Memorial Day lights and flag. I also plan to do a good dusting, and move the furniture to clean behind and under them.
The main thing that needs to be done is drop the car off with the mechanic. It's due for its first inspection since I purchased it, it's due for the next tune-up, and it needs 4 new tires.
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