Due to the new project we launched recently, and the activities to support it, the CHAI team in Swaziland has been expanding. Our old office had enough desks for 7 people and there were 10 of us working there. It was generally okay as we had a conference room which we could use as a place to work, it did become a bit more interesting when we actually wanted to use the conference room for a meeting, that usually involved some convoluted musical chairs to sort things out.
This week we have 4 new people starting, so something had to change. Alison our Country Director has been working on new offices for some time, and when I arrived the leaseholder was threatening to offer the office to someone else if we didn’t move in by the 15th July. It is a new building and the offices hadn’t been fitted out when I arrived, so we really didn’t think it would be finished by the 15th … we did hope that they would finish by the 1st August though…… They haven’t, which means we moved into new offices that doesn’t have internet, enough desks and has builders apparently randomly drilling things, taking doors off the hinges etc. The aim of moving in was to try and force them to finish things quicker than they may have done if we weren’t actually in the offices. I’m not sure how successful that has been, luckily I have had a lot of meetings at other offices. This offices will be a huge improvement once they get sorted, but this week is a bit of a transition week. We are definitely going up in the world as we are all to get our own phone and extension number, rather than sharing 2 lines between the whole office (one of them being the fax line).
Trying to work with 4 builders and two drills in the area!
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