Written by: Wayne on 02 February 2011
I’ll be damned, we are about to grow out of this place!
What’s 2 years in the life of Pubco? More like 5-6 years of my past life…
I’m a fairly fast paced runner, but where I would have taken a stride I now sprint!
In a word: we’ll be moving out of our current facilities, after moving in 2 years ago. We left our previous location, in Montreal, because we needed twice the space; and we will be moving again for the exact same reason.
It would be difficult to tell from the current office configuration that we are about to move. In fact, at the moment, we don’t even work in our cubicles and offices: we are renovating. My own desk is covered with saw dust; my wife has taken refuge from gypsum powder in an aquarium-like space overlooking the whole construction site; our director is sitting at a round conference table in some other corner, furiously tapping on his keyboard, maybe trying to overcome the circular saw whirr.
Managing growth has been fun as much as a challenge. At Pubco, growth and crisis management are interchangeable terms!
When I left the company I worked for 8 years ago, I could not have foreseen all this. As a business representative for a chemical company, the range of my responsibilities did not include paving a parking lot large enough for an 18 wheeler to make u-turns in (the city building code is categorical), nor finding forklifts that have the necessary reach (one story higher).
I love it!
