78: Packing, full of fun!

Today is our last day in the long long job in Kwun Tong and we get to pack all things and files back to office. After days and hours of sorting, tearing (unwanted papers apart), throwing, box naming and packing, finally we have more than 6 carton boxes and 8 travel cases! So we called a van which has a driver and he would carry these heavy stuff down to the van, haul them back to our office carpark and carry up to our office. We, only 1 male and 2 female, definitely cannot do that.

Quite interesting is to bargain prices. A female colleague phoned to the transport company and state our request. It is found that there is a fixed charge for pure transport a negotiable surcharge for the effort of the driver who would carry the heavy stuff for us. They offer $280, we counter-offer $250, and the final deal if $270. In fact it’s pretty ok as we have really plenty of heavy things and we can also sit in the van.

Packing things is also full of fun.

1. We have not enough carton boxes so we have to find elsewhere. Sometimes some are put outside the office of our neighbouring offices and we would take them away quietly. But one time is discovered by a woman who is also collecting cartons but for sales to earn money. We asked her politely, ‘Could we have one? (We are holding 2 or 3)’ ‘Ok, you guys are moving office?’ ‘Yes, we are.’ ‘Then move to where?’ ‘We move to Admiralty.’ ‘Oh, Admiralty is good!’ ‘Yes, good ar!’ SO cute is the woman, and how come we are ‘competing’ for boxed with her? Haha … …

2. We have taken some stationery from our office to there for our work, and finally discovered we have really taken a lot! So we donate all to our clients. We gave them to one female client and one male client. The female client is very excited and likes the colour paper dividers very much. ‘XX, are they useful for you?’ ‘YES!! Useful ar, thank you very much ar!!’ The male client said the most popular stationery to them is frosted 3M Scotch tapes. ‘The tapes we are using is the shiny one, cannot write anything on, but can write on these frosted tapes’ Yellow post-it is also popular to them. ‘We made stationery request to admin and admin said the firm has not ordered these yellow post-it’ So next time, we will bring more colour dividers, scotch tapes and yellow post-it when work for this client. Haha … …

3. Personal stationery is easy to lose if no close eye is kept. Some colleagues lost their pencils and rulers. Since they are tiny, they will easily be dropped onto the floor and someone may kick it away. They may also be ‘stored’ inside a thick file and when managers review files, they would wonder why we always give them beautiful stationery. So when packing and tidying up things, we can hear ‘Oh! I find my ruler!’ ‘Oh! I find YY’s pencil and she loves it very much!’

Although it’s fun, it is exhausting to pack those things and more exhausting is to unpack in our office. Our office is quiet, and we cannot make much noise. And we have to separate and organize different types of files and put them in boxes and arrange properly. Very tedious.