Do you smell it? A deal is in the air. It is like the smell of the hunt. The vultures, I mean sales people are swarming. The people that don’t think they got the deal are scrambleing to meet and discuss further. The guys that think they got the deal are trying to fatten up their offer. I for one just think this is a necissary evil in the build out process. I actually think Gus enjoy’s dealing with these people sometimes.
Still outstanding is our voice and data lines. Because what is a call center without phone service. We are close to a decision, but don’t have papers in front of us just yet.
On the flip side, dan our director of operations is working on the construction quotes and we hope modifications to the space should start within a week. I personally think that is a pipe dream, but who am I to know or not.
To make things interesting is that today is Cisco Systems end of quarter. Since like 6 out of 7 quotes we are looking at involve Cisco hardware they want to move fast on this.
Now is the hard part of verifying what we were promised is now in writteng before we put ink to paper.
Other problems today will include moving some users around. We have a new guy starting on Monday. To put him in the seat we want, we have to move someone and double that person up with another guy. our office has nice large cubes. Good for individuals, and it works if you put 2 people in them without allot of stuff. We did it in 3 other cubes and it works. Everyone is not happy about it, but they get by. Well, we need to do that again today. The guy getting doubled up will probibly not be very happy. It is short term, until our call center starts growning in the new facility, but still 3 months can be a while for some.