7:30 – 3:30 OP_GEN_OPS

• Well, it’s been a hell of a weekend. Last Friday, at 3:55 pm, I get an email from Facilities that we need to be ready to move out of the Mill at 9:00 AM on Monday. I say that we need a bit more time and that we are in the middle of some particularly intense work with the customer. They say, sorry, but you’re moving. I escalate up to the exec VP level and finally sanity returns and we have some time. It’s not quite done yet, as I need to get a letter from Mill management saying that we don’t have to return the spaces to their original condition, since that would require putting the old walls back up and covering them with mismatched paint.
• But that’s not all. On Saturday, Dong and I get a stop work order from WCC: “The Government has directed that all contractors that they may not nor are they authorized to work outside of the current period of performance and funding.  No work may be done at risk.” aside from the somewhat incoherent grammar, my impression was that our contract had been a victim of sequestration. But when I swing by to discuss this with our customer, all the other contractors are there, and everyone swears that we have funding. We take this information to our management, who says, not, that’s wrong. Anyway, we get to spend at least one day charging overhead unable to do work. Grrr.