Down Your Way

My Dear Princess and Dear Fellows,

Back into the new office for an actual day of work today.

I'm not sure if it is all Kiwi organisations, but they don't half make a song and dance of office moves. Both MPI and Kainga Ora have to have weeks of build-up before the actual move.

Lots of helpful, informative "welcome packs" that circulate WEEKS in advance*. And lots of advice on where to find facilities and how to log into printers. Plus "relocation champions" who wear white t-shirts, accost you every other minute to ask if they can help** and hand out chocolate***.

I remember moving at Scottish Govt. They just gave you a new desk number and left you to it! An entire afternoon of watching colleagues pushing their desktops and monitors up and down corridors on their wheelie chairs.

Kainga Ora would be APPALLED.

Housing in NZ is in a bit of a crisis for which we are going to blame the right-wing party that sold off public housing and let house prices explode. To be fair, the Labour party are TRYING to do something about it, but so are not making much of a dent thus far (which the Nationals are hammering them for).

That little sojourn into politics is to explain something. Housing is important to the Labour govt and they are BUNGING money at it. Which is why the new office is so flash. It really is the poshest office I have ever worked at. Not even the "blue zone" in Standard Life Investments House compares.

Here is a bit of a crap picture I took of two meeting rooms. As you can see, they are located on Totara Lane. There are actually tons of meeting rooms here, plus "break out areas" and "quiet zones" and "brainstorming spaces". Plus a Wellness Room and a Reflection Room****.

Being back in the office for a full day was not so bad. I didn't get out of the office for lunch because I wanted to leave early, but it's nicely positioned (2 minutes from the railway station, 2 minutes from the harbour). So when I do get out and about it will be really handy.

I've added a couple of extras for you. Of the break out space, which looks like a semi-constructed house, and then the view. That is scaffolding you can see, not bars on the windows.

The only downside is that I have to go there to WORK and not just eff about. Eff's sake.

Oh, and ps the boys are back to normal. Caro found a tuft of hair missing from Jasper's tail, but he seems to have recovered well and the lads are friends again. Phew.

S.
 
* That no-one reads.

** When all you were looking for was the khazi.

*** Not that I'm complaining.

**** Which I am told is a space for personal reflection, and not where you go if you want to look at your own tutley.