Open House

NVision has been in this location for just under a year. They bought the building and renovated it for their own occupation on the fourth floor, leaving the remaining 2 floors as tenant space (the first level is parking spaces).

Now that they are (cross your fingers) done with the renovations, they decided it was time to host an Open House. They invited over 200 people from all the companies they work with - as well as ones they don't. It was quite the shin-dig, with catering services and everything.

The biggest effort on our part was getting the place cleaned up for it. Two separate companies had merged together to form NVision, and they had boxed everything up to move in.

What they didn't do was UNbox everything. Stuff was pilled up in every available space, and was shuffled around from here to there periodically when somebody needed something from one of the boxes.

Bill, one of our bosses, made it a company directive that "everything needs to find a permanent home, and it all needs to be straightened up" giving us about 2 days to accomplish this miraculous feat.

We did finally get things straightened up so that by the time people started arriving it looked really good. Our hope is that we can keep it looking this good - which will not be easy as most of the people are used to leaving messes behind them as they go about their daily business.

Unfortunately the weather was not cooperating with us the day of the Open House, so barely a quarter of the people invited were able to attend. Still, we had a good 50 or so show up; more than enough to fill the place. I recognized a few faces from past experience with other companies, but I have to admit that most of them were completely new to me.

We had a ton of really good food, most of which got divvied up afterwards and taken home by employees rather than consumed by guests. I think I am the only vegetarian in the office, so most of the food was not for me. We do have one lady who is allergic to gluten, so she couldn't eat most of the food either. I heard no complaints, regardless. It was all very tasty.

I had invited my family to come see where I work, and thankfully my brother Stewart drove Mother in so they were both able to attend. With the roads as bad as they were, Mother would not have attempted it on her own - and rightfully so. Stewart is a very good driver, though, so they had no problems other than finding a place to park once they got here.

The Open House was scheduled for just a few hours around lunch time, but - as we knew would happen - people hung around for hours, so our day was fairly shot as far as work goes. It was a good day, though - well worth all the effort that went in to it.