I just spoke to K2 and our saga continues.  Unfortunately the power outage blew out some of our Internet hardware.  We have a call in to the service company who is supposed to be available 24/7.  Hopefully Internet will be restored before we arrive in the office in the morning.

Due to this fact, I am going back to our original plan.  Please show up at the office nlt 8:30 am and we will plan on a full day as a team on the exact same schedule.

Reminder - Halloween Party is Friday.  Come in costume on Friday (not Thursday)

I received info from Brandywine that Peco has restored power to the complex.  Our phone is working, but I have yet to reach K2 or Mike Owsiany to get more details.  The VPN is not running yet and it will take a bit of effort for our file server (F drive) to be available.  I know some of you are having intermittent issues with webmail which is expected.

I will see all of you in the morning.  Those of you that normally come in earlier than 8:30 may do so tomorrow and work a normal day.  Everyone is expected to be in the office at 8:30 am for team meetings.

Have a safe and happy Halloween.

All,

I have been promised that power will be restored by tonight.  Please come to the office on normal schedule (8:30 am) on Thursday.

Beginning at 830 am each department will be meeting with their managers and catching up on status and initiatives.

Each department will use a specific office/room for there meeting.  These meetings will occur regardless of power being restored.  Your manager will discuss the past few days and go through projects and initiatives and next steps.  Please include offsite team members as appropriate.

Plan on these meetings finishing up around 10 am.  At that time, the managers will huddle together in the large conference room for 30 minutes.

The meeting offices available will be (cafeteria, large conf room, small conf room, my office, jims office, james office, georges office, strat dev area) - first come first serve but please leave the cafeteria for the tech group and the large conference room for marketing.

For those of you that usually come in early, I will try to communicate about power being restored as soon as it happens.  Check your email and check the blog site (beyondweather.blogspot.com) for updated information.

If the power is not restored, there is no need to come in early.  The office will open at 8:30 am and close at 5:30 pm so we should all plan on being on the same schedule.

The past few days have really thrown us a bit so i want to make sure we gather as a team and do our best to move forward together as we start off November.

Please feel free to communicate with your managers or with me/Tessa should you require anything.  Some of us are still without power or are dealing with down trees and other issues at home so please do your best to lend support where needed.

We had a good day at The Marriott today and hopefully each of your were productive at home as well.

Please finish up work at 5pm tonight and try to enjoy your Halloween.  we will see you first thing in the morning.

Thank you

Rich

Brief update on email.  The move to the colo was successful.  https://mail.beyond.com should be accessible but your desktops may need to be reconfigured

you can communicate with others inside beyond and you can receive email from outside, however mail outbound is not going out just as of yet (it is being queued/held)

We will keep you up to date as things progress

Team (as of Wednesday 7am)

The power is not back on and it does not appear that it will be until later today,  We are working to assure people can be productive.  Please read the below and check this blog often.

1. Halloween will be moved to Friday
2. If you plan to work from home, you must have power/internet and make every attempt  to check in with your manager
3. If you are working please get on Instant Messenger/AIM and communicate with your peers/managers
4. If you would like, you can come to the Marriott in Conshohocken and work there (starting around 9am).  Please bring a laptop if you have one otherwise we will try to provide.  If you can be productive from home then you are not required to come to the Marriott, but we will use this space for meetings and work.  I will provide lunch and dinner for anyone that is interested.
5. For those of you that just want to meet face-to-face for a couple of hours, please feel free to join others at the Marriott as well.
6. If you are coming to the Marriott, please let me know by emailing RichMilgram@gmail.com or calling me 610.999.3333,  You may also try my home number 610.642.0202
7. Anyone that would like to take PTO may do so.
8. When I have an update on mail access, I will post it on this blog.

Please do your best to be productive and communicate with the team.  Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me, Tessa or your manager.

as of right now (6 am) the office is still without power, I will update everyone at 7am by posting on this site

K2 and Jeremy moved the mail server this morning (Wednesday 5am) - They are hooking it up at the Colo.  Since mail is already down for everyone this is no more of an outage than already exists.  We hope they have mail up by 9-10am.  At that time, you should have access to webmail but any Outlook box on a computer would need to be updated.  Check back here for mail info.