The Pounding, the Screeching, the Scraping

So, I work in a building that is more of a converted warehouse, than an office building. It is not some cool, old, dare I say, stylish warehouse; but some generic, suburban sprawl warehouse. This isn’t a bad thing, on most days. It is new, very clean, open, and nice. The front half of the building was converted to office space so that a couple of business units could have offices away from our sister company. Also, the platform (bigger than a business unit, still too small to be our own division) has its HQ here.

Here is where the problem, the building is so nice, and the old, beat up building our sister company has is so, well, not nice, that all of the Platform level employees want an office here; and the business units that share the space want more space. So, what to do, right? Well, the warehouse part of it is used to story inventory (it’s a warehouse, after all) and do electrical component integration. So, we took part of the space where the component integration is done, and are making more warehouse space.

So, here is where it becomes a problem. My office is RIGHT next to where the remodeling is going on. I see various construction guys walking past my office all day. Some speaking English, a lot speaking Spanish, especially the drywall crew. The framing of the walls was okay, most putting anchor bolts down, and putting the metal studs up, some noise, but not too bad. Monday sucked, a lot, because they drywall crew was putting drywall screw after drywall screw into the metal studs. Reetch! Reetch! Reeetch! All the goddamn day long. It was horrible. Yesterday was an extension of Tuesday: Reetch! Today started off with me watching some guy on stilts mud and old doorway that was closed. As I allergic to dust, I am not looking forward, at all, to when they sand the drywall.

All through out the day, I hear various noises associated with building office space: cutting, screwing, hammering, et al. I gave me a headache Monday, and if there is too much dust in the air, it will give me one today. I’m glad that I scheduled my self to visit the US HQ for US business unit.

Later,

B