Move, people, move….!
The picture above shows the dustbin in the shared kitchen/lunch room in our new building at the ‘city campus’. Staff moved into the building on August 1st this year, and app. 600 students joined us on Sept. 1st. Lots of details were not sorted by the time we moved in, and even by the time the students arrived. Network connections were not good, furniture was not in its right place, boxes were still to be unpacked, the coffee machine to be plugged in, etc. Many of us worked out of boxes for weeks and weeks, because the handy men were too busy to fix bookshelves in our offices for a long long time, etc. The fact that after 2,5 months in the building we still had no in the building seems very hard to understand - and even harder for anyone to explain. We have given up trying to understand how and where this went wrong, and why it was so hard to cmmunicate this very basic need to the right people at the right time. Instead we are just very pleased that the bins are finally here. Just make simple things really complicated, and you will get really happy employees when things miraculously ’solve themselves’. On a more serious note, the late arrival of the long needed bins also shows us that moving organisations or parts of them, from packing up the boxes in position A to unpacking them, settling in, and taking up work again in position B is a slow proces with lots and lots of small steps along the way…
