A strange experience I once had was finding 6 boxes in retention saying
"the move".  Upon investigation I found that the person that had sent
the boxes to retention was moving from New York to California and was
afraid of losing her household important papers so she boxed them up and
sent them to retention to be stored until she was settled in her new
place and could retrieve the boxes.

Lisa Bumbacher
Records Operations Manager
Information Asset Mgmt.
843-16S
585-422-0060 or 2-0060
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Subject: [RM] The weird and wacky

Have fun with this....I've been asked to speak to a group of clerical
staff. Their onsite RM person does lots of training so my idea is make
it fun, include 1) weird things RM's find in boxes 2) obscure
information we keep tucked away in case it's needed e.g. how much a wet
box weighs.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has had weird experiences. Even things
found that proved valuable e.g. our HR Dept had no employee records
pre-dating Regional gov't formation but we found old payroll records
that proved start dates of a few employees who were then able to retire
early (I obviously was not among them).

Patti Kraatz
Coordinator, Information Mgmt & Archives Council & Administrative
Services 2nd Floor, 150 Frederick St.
Ph: 575-4725    Fax: 575-4481
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