“I definitely plan to work all weekend.”
Reonomy's new office needed internet by Monday. The installer needed access through parts of the building we did not control, the available window kept moving, and I was staying onsite to make sure nobody arrived at a locked door.
The cable scramble had started weeks earlier when I was trying to find somebody to pull Cat5. Now the wiring was far enough along that building access was the blocker.
I kept checking the install status. I confirmed when the neighboring space was open. I asked what still had to be done and told the crew to call me if anything got stuck. When Saturday stopped looking possible, I worked the phones to get Sunday approved and arranged for everybody to meet as early as possible.
“We literally cannot do business without internet,” I wrote. That was the whole priority system.
Sunday morning I was back in the office. The contractor entrance was unattended, so I told the crew to use the front. I stayed available, left briefly to grab food, and came back. We were going to power through and wrap it up.
The phones were still a separate problem. Sales and client success would work from home Monday, so incoming calls needed to reach a couple of cell phones for the day. I arranged an early session to make that happen while we finished the office.
The physical move was landing beside a leadership reset. I had a board meeting coming and staff changes that required me to stay in New York. Two engineering departures needed direct communication to the teams that worked with them, followed by an all-hands the next morning. I kept that message straight and brief.
Monday worked. The internet crew had put in the time, the office was connected, and I thanked them for making the morning a success. There were still follow-up requests and the phones needed their temporary routing, but people could work.
After a weekend of chasing doors, crews, cables, and calls, that was enough to call the move real.