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Category Archives: Warehouse
Apparently Oil is Expensive and Burns Fast
Our heating adventure continues. When we moved we knew we had ~1,000 gallon oil tank, but when the oil company came and told us it was just short of full, we were happy to only put in 27 gallons. Then our heat went out after a few days in the warehouse. Four days later, the oil company came and essentially said “our bad, the tank was really empty last time we came” and put in 850 gallons. The bill for that fill up ran us just over $3k, but we figured it would last a while. Apparently not. We checked … Continue reading
Cutting it Close – Time to Step Up
I bet you think I just haven’t been posting much this week because we’ve been busy getting acclimated to the warehouse. Right? Right? Nope – I caught a wicked cold and have spent most of the week home sick getting very little accomplished. This was supposed to be the week where I started my ‘new’ routine, but that’ll have to wait until next week. Speaking of next week, we could end up spending the majority of the week working with the oil company trying to figure out why our heater mysteriously stopped working today. That should be fun. With the … Continue reading
Operating From the Warehouse Today
As soon as I wrote my last post about our moving time chaos, Murphy went into hiding an everything started going right for us. Friday we packed everything. Saturday we spent the entire day moving, but we were able to do it in two truckloads and the weather turned out to not be all that bad. Sunday George and Greg loaded all of the products on to shelving units while Mike and I set up the computers and the network (our Sprint Mobile Broadband Card + Linksys router is working great thus far – download speeds are well over 1 … Continue reading
Moving Time Chaos
Today we finally start the move to our warehouse. All week long Murphy’s Law – whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way – has been in full effect. Among my favorites: The hard drive on George’s brand new laptop died yesterday, and his most recent backup was the end of January. He has been the main point of contact for everything move-related, so this was a big hit. Remember to back up your files kids! I’ve been jumping through hoops trying to get my identity theft situation cleaned up. … Continue reading
How We Saved $4,000 Down and $140 a Month on Internet
One thing we learned quickly when we started adding up the costs of a warehouse was that everything is more expensive when you’re a business. It’s as if every service provider hears “business” and immediately jacks up the price 50%. As of Monday we had everything squared away except our internet access, which has always been a bitch every time I’ve ever moved. That’s why we got out in front of it and about two weeks ago George put a call in to Time Warner Cable to inquire about getting Road Runner in our warehouse. They told him they needed … Continue reading
We Finally Signed Our Lease!
Last night George and I went to the post office and mailed in the final copy of our signed lease. Wow does that feel great! We’ve been looking for a place since back in August, and after having a few places fall through we finally found the perfect location for us. First things first – in our struggles to find the right place we learned that there are a lot of grimey people in this business that are difficult to work with and try to rip you off. This location is managed by the Galesi Group and I wanted to … Continue reading
Lease Negotiations Suck
In moving back and forth for several internships during college and then my job after college, I’ve lived in quite a few different places from anywhere from three months to a year. In doing so, I’ve looked at a lot of apartments and become accustomed to the relatively pain-free process of leasing an apartment. I always figured leasing business space would be the same. I was wrong. Following our debacle a few months ago, we were pretty certain we found a great place for us a few weeks ago. It’s a short commute, it’s a brand new facility (meaning we … Continue reading