I just might be driven nuts at work over the next little while. See, our company was sold this past November. For the past 50 years, it had been a privately owned family construction company. The fact that we were doing over a quarter billion in annual revenue at the time of the sale speaks to the quality of the management that has been here. And the quality of the work that we do.
Now that we're owned by a collection of investment firms, we have been given a mandate for a specified amount of fiscal growth over the next 5 years. With fiscal growth, by necessity, comes physical growth; especially when it's as aggressive as what we are aspiring to do. Add to that the fact that, since we now have to report to the SEC (which we never had to do before), and it has quickly become apparent that we were vastly understaffed to begin with, our people-needs have sky-rocketed in the past year.
So the reason for my impending insanity is that, also by necessity, our physical office space has to grow to accommodate the requisite increase in bodies. Sorry - that should read 'human resources'. The incessant jack-hammering has just started this week. We are scheduled to be able to move in to the new digs by JULY of next year. In the interim, I'll be shacking up in a collection of trailers that have been parked out in our equipment yard. Move in will be Monday. (Plus side to moving in to the trailers is that they are located on the far side of the construction noise.)
And, just so you know, any time I post about work, I'll be including a pertinent Dilbert cartoon because, well, we're both engineers and I can relate. I have amassed quite the electronic collection of them.
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