The Big Move Part 1 of 4: Iams & Eukanuba Pack Up!
The day when Pet Care leaders announced that we would be selling our office building and moving south to P&G’s Mason Business Center was bittersweet for me (Our Headquarters is Moving!). I’ve worked for the past 14 years in the office on Poe Avenue, and I have so many good memories associated with this building.
But maybe it was the right time. Over the past 10 years more and more of our folks were working from offices down in Cincinnati, and the population of our Poe Avenue buildings had decreased from a couple thousand to only a couple hundred.
In early September the auction signs went up and we started getting emails from the move team telling us it was time to start packing. Have you ever moved from a house you’ve lived in for 30 years to a smaller yet smart new already furnished condominium? We needed to downsize!
The “For Sale” sign went up in early September.
So we spent September and part of October going through all the stuff we had accumulated during the time we live in our buildings on Poe Avenue.
And then, suddenly, it was our last week in the building. The week started with a “garage sale” and silent auction. A lot of that stuff that we had collected–stacks of branded tee shirts, pens, notebooks, clocks, watches, along with used office supplies—were all put in one room and we each purchased some memories to take home. And much of the dog and cat oriented art work that we had collected over the years was put up for silent auction. Our garage sale and silent auction raised over $7,000 for the United Way of Greater Dayton.
Shelley finishes packing in between phone calls.
Marti is nearly finished packing.
Boxes waiting to be loaded.
Sue, Consumer Relation’s move captain, has got it all under control.
Even with our downsizing, there seems to be no end to the boxes!
By Friday morning every cubical and office had a sign that said, “Checked and Ready to Move!”
Friday October 23 was moving day, and we were required to be out the door by noon. Of course, it rained. If I was of a maudlin frame of mind, I might say that the sky cried to see us leaving. But I’m far more cynical—it rained because it made things more inconvenient and wet.
Marti got saturated loading last minute things into her car.
The ramp is down, the boxes are getting loaded.
One last look at our sign.
Over the weekend, the moving company would deliver our boxes to our new home.
Next: Iams & Eukanuba Find a New Home!
