Well, this is weird and wacky so I hope it fits.  This story was told to
me by the person involved in sorting out the mess...

A hospital for mentally challenged individuals ran out of storage room
and decided to put their off-site storage records in the space that
housed an empty pool.  Some of the residents were helping out and they
were asked to move the boxes to that room.  

Quite some time passed before anyone checked on the progress of the
move.  When they did, they found that the boxes had successfully been
moved to the correct room.  What they had not anticipated finding was
all of the boxes being tossed into the pool.  

I don't recall how long it took to reconstruct the box contents in order
to satisfy the audit.

Thanks,
Laura



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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Patti Kraatz
Sent: 2006 June 15 7:55 AM
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Subject: 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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