About 10 days ago, a bunch of idiots working on a construction project about half a mile from my office drilled and busted the sewage pipe and poured down concrete. Before anyone realized what was happenning, the sewage backed up and started filling our garden that is lower than the street level.
Basically people's s.it, is now sitting in our garden. The smell is mighty horrid, the garden looks like a swamp and the Landlord refuses to help. So, we decided to evacuate as soon as possible and started looking for probable office spaces. Needless to say, we will be suing the Landlord.
Our Office Assistant and I have visited several places with a realtor and came up with 3 alternatives. Tomorrow, we shall be showing those places to the CEO, CFO and the architect to decide which will serve our purposes best.
In any case, we cannot be out of this place before late April.
The ex-boss is glad, he barely escaped this hellhole. We always had small issue with the electricity and the infrastructure but the beauty of our garden and the peaceful location made it worth staying over here.
Now, we will be moving to a plaza type of office space with a Mall or very close to one and life will be different.
I am sure, the Mall will have a terrible effect on most of our staff's finances but they have to grow up and manage their money.
That's why I have been MIA lately. Too much stress... I am trying to cope with it by seeing my friends after work and during the weekend. I miss my mom but, do not have the time to go to Ankara these days. Let me sign off for now and call mom to see how she is doing.
WOW! That is terrible - and gross. I was the office manager for many years at the Head Office of a major bank and my worst mess was flooding - water tanks on the roof of the old building we were in burst one weekend and ran down through the elevators - out of 32 floors our dept. had staff on 30 (they had to be evacuated for 4 months) - the 17th - we were out for 2 weeks - our 10th floor escaped any damage. What was even worse was that we had just moved onto these floors after major renovations and redecorating - back to square one! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Hopefully, one of the three offices we found will be deemed acceptable.
Deleteoh thats awful -what a mess! a few years ago my office flooded two years in a row, it was quite stressful and puts you so far behind when things like this happen. hopefully the move to the new premises goes through quickly.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jan. It is truly horrible. Yuck!
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ReplyDeleteThat is horrid. Since this is a health issue and certainly not your fault, it seems the landlord is not responsible for the costs of cleanup but should do it and then sue whoever is responsible...the city? That is just nasty. Breathing that in is unhealthy. Be careful.
I saw your post this morning but was just too ill to read it and was on the way to doctor. The post I put up today was written the day before.
Hope you are feeling better by now Linda. Take care!
DeleteWhat an effin mess! At first I thought you meant the garden where you live not work so very glad you can move offices as opposed to moving houses! Sorry about your stress levels - I can't imagine how horrible it all is!
ReplyDeleteIt is very bad. Looking for an office is tougher than looking for a home.
Deletethat is nasty. He can't be a very good landlord if he is making no effort to prevent your company from leaving..........is working from home an option for you all?
ReplyDeleteOh he is a jerk but our lawyer knows what he is doing. Working from home for everyone every day is not an option.
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