Office moves have a special talent for making smart people do chaotic things. Someone labels a box “misc,” IT swears the internet will be up “by lunch,” and suddenly your finance team is borrowing a stapler like it’s contraband. That’s downtime, quiet, sneaky, and way more expensive than it looks.

There’s a moment in every move where we stare at a pile of random boxes and think, “Close enough.” That’s usually right before a bowl slides into a frying pan, a tape seam pops open, and someone says words we can’t print on a family blog.

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