I had forgotten how interesting go-lives could be. This is my day 5 but for some of the guys it is day 8. Some of the Business users came in yesterday to start working on the system and they brought with them a can of Lysol and antibacterial hand wash! They said the room smelled like a university dorm room, Stale pizza, doughnuts coffee and tea smells. The floors had not been vacuumed in days as every time the cleaning staff comes in someone is on the phone working an issue and can’t have the vacuum running in the background. We are down to one male still wearing a tie everyone else has given in to sleeping that extra 5 minutes rather than fuss over appearance.
The canteen staff know most of us by name now and what we all like to eat and drink. I went to the shop yesterday to get some snacks and it was like a flock of vultures as soon as the team spotted what I had in my bags! The snacks were wiped out in about 15 minutes. If you snooze around here you will certainly lose! We arrived this morning to a pleasant surprise, the room had been cleaned top to bottom and all refuse had been removed. The stale food smell was gone and the trash bins were empty. That was about 5 hours ago and now it looks pretty much like it did yesterday. Oh well, this is our life for a few more days. Next up Italy in July.
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