Exhale

Well, the aquisition and move are complete. Whew! Last Friday I spent 12 hours at the new building doing inventory, auditing their teller drawers and vault, and getting all the books closed out for the aquisition. Saturday I was back by 7:30 a.m. to help the tellers get situated and comfortable with our proceedures. Our tech people were there setting up the teller machines and getting everyone's computers set up in their offices. By noon the "Great Move" began. It is hard to imagine how much stuff was in that old building. I think the last load came over about 6:00. Then I spent time trying to find the items I would need to use on Monday when the door opened. Sunday was spent training on our policies and proceedures. Monday I was back by 7:00 a.m. to get try to get the Saturday drive-up and walk-up work through the teller machines. When the door opened it was like black friday at Walmart!!!!! People everywhere complaining about the free checks we sent them, wanting to get their debit cards activated and wanting to get re-set up for internet banking!!!! I finally went home about 8:00 on Monday. Tuesday was a little bit better, but still very hectic. I left at 7:00 because of the nasty weather, but I should have stayed and uploaded a few more internet banking agreements. Yesterday we had a blizzard here so I was expecting a very quiet day. WRONG!!!! It was just as busy as Tuesday. Even though we got all the internet banking uploaded, there were still things to deal with. I spent time dealing with some of the "backroom" issues. I even left the office by 6:00! I hope that today will be the beginning of my quest to get to a normal day. Now, off to work . . . .