Oh, I'd have to draw the line at grasshoppers! ha
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Arthur Medrano
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] The weird and wacky
Building on Ginny's comments, I too have over the years pulled many
boxes containing the contents of someone's desk. Food, keys,
staplers, etc. have been found in them. If it can be put into a
desk, I have probably seen it stuffed into a box and sent to storage.
In addition, I have run across boxes labeled "Christmas decorations"
(which had been forgotten and left in storage for 15+ years), other
"holiday" boxes and most uniquely, an executive chair! (Yes, it WAS
in a box.) Turns out an employee had fallen out of her chair and had
filed a Worker's Comp case. The company lawyers, not wanting to lose
track of the evidence (the chair) put it in storage where it was
promply forgotten about until my review years later turned it up!!
A "discovery" of a related sort was a time I when I was doing a
records inventory for a company where I was a new hire. I found that
about 200 Accounting boxes were stored at a Public Storage-type
facility nearby in several 10'x 20' storage units. (Yea, I cringed
too when I heard that) When I went to the facility to check the
condition of the boxes, we discovered all of the storage units were
infested by grasshoppers or locust. We had to "bomb" the storage
units before we could remove the boxes to send to a proper storage
center. During the removal, we had to dig THOUSANDS of these insects
out of the boxes. Yuck! To borrow from Indiana Jones, "I hate
insects!"
Arthur Medrano, CRM
Los Angeles, CA
--- "Jones, Virginia" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I remember cleaning out a "basement" storage repository and finding
> several boxes labeled "Ed's desk." Upon opening, of course, we
> found
> all the stuff pulled from "Ed's" desk drawers after he left 10
> years
> earlier. Amongst the file folders, lose records, and old phone
> messages
> we found Fritos bags (both empty and full), an electric razor,
> buttons
> from various professional conferences, and personal bank statements
> going back several years prior to Ed's termination.
>
> Ginny Jones
> (Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
> Records Manager
> Information Technology Division
> Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
> Newport News, VA
> [log in to unmask]
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