re: #307 Walter L. Newton

I’ve worked for two companies over the last twenty years. In the first ten years I had three different offices/cubicles; and one move was the entire company HQ changing buildings.

For the next six I had three different offices due to small shifts in the same building in Pittsburgh, plus the initial shift to that building when my current employer bought my previous employer and closed down the HQ.

In the 3.5 years I’ve been in Philly I’ve had six different cubicles due to various shifts and re-organizations. Including a “boomerang” move where I got moved from one building to another, and then moved back three months later (to a different cubicle on the same floor I’d left).

One benefit is that I have a small moving footprint (4-5 boxes). I have purged paper relentlessly with each move and simply don’t keep a lot of files at this point beyond the minimum necessary. (And after the last shift I actually did not bother to unpack two boxes. All I am going to do is slap new labels on them - 1/3 of the way packed.)

Oh, and I do consider myself quite fortunate. Reading here of the various employment issues other Lizards have, and I have friends in Pittsburgh as well who work IT and have issues finding jobs there.