West Cambridge Problems 1

The UCS is moving to West Cambridge. That's fine. the problem is the printroom is supposed to be going with it.

That means that I'll be 5 miles away from half my job. I was asked about this by another (senior) member of the department. I said nobody had either asked or told me.

On top of this the printroom will be shrinking to about 20% of it's current size.

And we don't know if there will be:

• Adequate power for the big production machine. 
• Enough network sockets (all offices, we found out this morning, will have 3 + phone).
• Whether the suspended floor will take the half a ton of equipment that we use regularly.
• If there will be the legally required minimum of 11 cubic metres of space per person (http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/roomspace.htm_)

Or whether there will be enough work:

• two of our big customers are remaining in the city centre.
• 60%+ of our work is for outside customers, many of whom wont travel.
• the idea that other departments already there wont have made printing arrangements is fanciful. At best.
• I've been told that we should only be doing internal work. There simply isn't enough work for 2 people (and guess who will be out 1st). 

I don't know if anybody has bothered to inform Ricoh, who own the machines. I'm sure they would want to do a site survey to make sure ventilation etc is adequate.