So even though we have moved back into our offices a while ago, my stuff still hasn’t been returned to me. And now the movers are saying they did return it and if it isn’t there, they have no idea what happened to it.
The good news is that I had brought all of my tenure-related paperwork back home with me. The bad news is that the boxes that disappeared contained all of my textbooks, my teaching materials that I have developed in the course of the last 10 years (there are such cool board games that I created among those materials), my dictionaries, my DVD collection, my books. All of this was bought with my own money.
The movers are suggesting that it’s all my fault because I supposedly didn’t put my name and office number on the boxes. What they don’t yet know (but will find out the moment I get to work) is that I took a picture of the boxes for my blog and it shows very clearly that the boxes did have all the necessary information written on them in huge bright letters.
This is annoying, people.
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I hope you can find your stuff – but I wouldn’t hold out a lot of hope. Flimsy white papers shoddily taped to the top of the box? It would be a miracle if they survived the moving & storing process. Markers like the “Kitchen Food Can Opener” on the side of the boxes would have been the way to go. Ain’t hindsight a wonderful thing.
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The thing is that other people used the same labeling strategy, with the same tape that was handed out to all of us, and got their stuff back. Just the two junior faculty members at my department didn’t. I wonder what God is telling us about our luck this year.
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May be you should find the movers and ask to where they moved stuff from close to you offices? And, in general, for *all* places where they stored stuff from any office?
Guess another such time won’t be soon to use the knowledge of taking it home. At least, look at the half-full part of glass – tenure-related paperwork is safe.
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