As some of you know we more than doubled our staff numbers last year. As a result of this we had to expand our office space. We were extremely lucky that our expansion coincided with that of the building where our offices are located.
So a few months ago the second “half” of our offices was made available and we moved in.
Why am I mentioning this now?
Well, as anyone trying to ring us this afternoon would have noticed, our phone lines seemed to be having issues.
What happened?
We’ve been having some really annoying issues with the electrics in the office. Some of the fuses were blowing for no apparent reason, so we got an electrician in to check things out. On investigation it transpired that whoever had done some of the wiring hadn’t done a particularly good job so various sections of the wiring had to be fixed. It also transpires, as we discovered today, that not all the fuses in the fusebox were as powerful as they should have been.
This afternoon the fuse blew completely (the electrician had already tripped the sockets earlier in the day!) so our phones were down for about half an hour while he ran off to get a replacement.
He has assured me that the new fuse will be more than enough to handle our current requirements!
I am hoping and praying that the office electrics have finally been sorted out once and for all – I’m getting too many grey hairs from all this!