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This past Wednesday, still with the Vox Beatle on the bench and getting to the last circuits needing awakening and tweaking, I was told I would have to pack up the shop and move back down the street to the other building where my shop has been. After being here in the main building were all of the assets are that I service, where there is a staff who can assist me in getting equipment down from the shelves that need to be serviced (preventative maintenance), as well as just lifting the HEAVY amps from the floor or road case on up to the bench, as these 71 yr old bones are starting to creak. Not to mention NOT having to wait for an available truck and driver to send over the gear that needs immediate attention. And, at my original shop, size being 33ft by 10f, with 72" x 36" benches and 12" deep shelves lining the two long walls, there's NOT much space in there. Ever day there, I'd have to haul the road cases and gear out of the way blocking the floor and out into the hallway to line the wall out side my shop (often joined by road cases by clients in the two adjacent studios in the hallway) in order to have walking space to work in there.
Now that summer is officially here, the temperature is now in the 80's to 100's here in the east end of the San Fernando Valley. In this current building where they moved all of their rental inventory as well as the administration offices there's air condition, so it's comfortable. No Air in the shop down the street, and only if there are clients who are in the three studios there, would there be air conditioning turned on, and I'd get whatever spillover comes in from the hallway.
The upshot.....I DON'T want to move out of here. This is efficient, being WHERE the EQUIPMENT IS, and where there is staff to assist as needed. Where there are road cases and hand trucks to help move the gear and set gear on to add to the work-bench space. The space they carved out for me is part of where the acoustic pianos are stored. When they shut down the New York operation, all that inventory came back here to Burbank, CA. My being in the 'piano storage area' is now being deemed a problem, and they need to retask that space they gave me, as there are a lot of pianos, both set up as well as on their sides, in cases, occupying the large aisle that runs the length of the warehouse. The amount of work I was getting done being down the street from where the gear is was very slow and unpredictable, and, of course, had financial impact on what I could get done in a month.
That news Wednesday hit me like a ton of bricks. I did at least get the Vox Beatle finished. I still have to do all of the billing, which I started on this morning when I came in.
I've got a lot of work to do at the other shop, which is overun with boxes of tubes and gear that grew on the last bench in the room, as the rule of available horizontal space has applied for the past 11 yrs there. Ugghh. I wanted to just go home and go fetal until it all went away. It hasn't.
Monday they need to have the gear out of here, as there's a crew coming in to run an additional fire sprinkler system into this space that was built when they moved into the building a couple years ago. Nothing was done to augment the sprinkler system up in the ceiling of the building when they build this keyboard loft/storage area, so now, they have the go-ahead to install the system, and I'm in the way in more than one way. I heard that was coming, but it sounded like it wasn't going to impact my being here. That's what changed. RATS! So far, I haven't injured myself in lifting heavy gear up onto the bench, but every time I have to do that, I have to grab hold of the loft and pull my body back erect as I'm feeling that strain every time. THAT has me worried, as there's NOBODY in that building were my shop is to assist me. No idea what the legal aspects is on that. I trade 20 hrs labor a month for being there to do their work (and other client work, when it's available). What if I get injured?
So, I'm in that packing phase, and will loose a week in this, while gear that clients need ASAP have no idea this has just descended upon me.
Now that summer is officially here, the temperature is now in the 80's to 100's here in the east end of the San Fernando Valley. In this current building where they moved all of their rental inventory as well as the administration offices there's air condition, so it's comfortable. No Air in the shop down the street, and only if there are clients who are in the three studios there, would there be air conditioning turned on, and I'd get whatever spillover comes in from the hallway.
The upshot.....I DON'T want to move out of here. This is efficient, being WHERE the EQUIPMENT IS, and where there is staff to assist as needed. Where there are road cases and hand trucks to help move the gear and set gear on to add to the work-bench space. The space they carved out for me is part of where the acoustic pianos are stored. When they shut down the New York operation, all that inventory came back here to Burbank, CA. My being in the 'piano storage area' is now being deemed a problem, and they need to retask that space they gave me, as there are a lot of pianos, both set up as well as on their sides, in cases, occupying the large aisle that runs the length of the warehouse. The amount of work I was getting done being down the street from where the gear is was very slow and unpredictable, and, of course, had financial impact on what I could get done in a month.
That news Wednesday hit me like a ton of bricks. I did at least get the Vox Beatle finished. I still have to do all of the billing, which I started on this morning when I came in.
I've got a lot of work to do at the other shop, which is overun with boxes of tubes and gear that grew on the last bench in the room, as the rule of available horizontal space has applied for the past 11 yrs there. Ugghh. I wanted to just go home and go fetal until it all went away. It hasn't.
Monday they need to have the gear out of here, as there's a crew coming in to run an additional fire sprinkler system into this space that was built when they moved into the building a couple years ago. Nothing was done to augment the sprinkler system up in the ceiling of the building when they build this keyboard loft/storage area, so now, they have the go-ahead to install the system, and I'm in the way in more than one way. I heard that was coming, but it sounded like it wasn't going to impact my being here. That's what changed. RATS! So far, I haven't injured myself in lifting heavy gear up onto the bench, but every time I have to do that, I have to grab hold of the loft and pull my body back erect as I'm feeling that strain every time. THAT has me worried, as there's NOBODY in that building were my shop is to assist me. No idea what the legal aspects is on that. I trade 20 hrs labor a month for being there to do their work (and other client work, when it's available). What if I get injured?
So, I'm in that packing phase, and will loose a week in this, while gear that clients need ASAP have no idea this has just descended upon me.
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