First it was the "as of the 6th of December, the CSIRO access to the ring road will be blocked off for road works". Since our precinct is on the CSIRO access road, we will not be able to get to our buildings from the ring road and will need to use the CSIRO road - which is chained shut after 7pm and on weekends. This building runs 24/7. After protests we have got "It'll stay open till 9pm and from 6-6 on weekends". After these hours we need to ring security and get them to come open the gates for us...this can take 1/2 an hour or so. Very inconvenient when it's midnight and you just want to go to bed.
Then this morning came the email; "As of Monday refurbishment of the virology lab will begin. Working bees will be required to move out contents prior to this. The lab will be finished some time in January"....
1. No notice whatsoever
2. Huge lab and no idea where everything will fit (or how we can move it in that short time).
3. Used for such things as cell culture and PCR 1 (clean area) which can't be contaminated by bacteria or plasmids/general DNA, so limitted places they can go
4. Contains an expensive robot which shouldn't be moved/vibrated under pain of death - will take hours to move if we can find somewhere safe for it to go
Then later this morning came the email; "work on the Tea Room ceiling will be starting shortly. They hope to have it all completed by Christmas. This work will mean that the room will be closed for the duration of the repairs (2-3 weeks).
It will therefore be necessary for the tea and coffee facilities, fridges, microwaves etc to be located elsewhere for that time."
We are going to have a christmas party in front of this room (using the fridges to store desserts/salad etc) slap bang in the middle of this time...and no idea where to put all this gear/find people to move it all while we are moving the virology lab....
Excuse me while I lie on the floor and gibber a bit.
We are going to have a christmas party in front of this room (using the fridges to store desserts/salad etc) slap bang in the middle of this time...and no idea where to put all this gear/find people to move it all while we are moving the virology lab....
Excuse me while I lie on the floor and gibber a bit.
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Gee! And I thought I had it bad just having to slow down to 40 kph every time I went past! I'd offer my parents place as a storage place on Marabou Drive (I often take my excess stuff there) but I would feel it to be a haven for biological contaminants :-)
Things have improved a little, They've delayed the need to move by Friday afternoon to a need to move by Monday afternoon, and someone jumpted up and down and got the tea room move delayed till after christmas...maybe we can put it in the virology lab. I'm all happy and relaxed now. Nothing like a worst case scenario changing to a merely very bad scenario, coupled with a massage to improve your mood.
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