{"id":4867,"date":"2024-08-29T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:08:18","slug":"expanded-customer-parking-project-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/expanded-customer-parking-project-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Customer Parking Project Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Post-Pandemic Era has Come with Many Challenges, many Benefits as Well.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everything in life has a good side and a bad side. That has certainly been the case for many business activities in this post-pandemic environment. It was three years ago that I acquired property on the south side of my business in order to expand customer parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to begin my project, I needed help from the telephone company in relocating and replacing a 1959 telephone pole that the contractors felt would not holdup to the activity around it. In addition to its questionable sturdiness to withstand the heavy-equipment vibration and surrounding ground-breaking, the pole was right in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spoke to the engineer with the telephone company about moving the pole 20 feet and upgrading it, as it was way past end-of-life. The engineer promised to get back to me. As time went by, I found myself questioning whether I needed to expand parking at all. The employee parking lot in the rear of the building is more than adequate for staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"moving pole\" class=\"wp-image-4865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2-350x467.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see, one of the things that changed in my business as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic, was the fact that my clients learned that they actually enjoyed filing their taxes remotely. Not coming into the office.  Time drifted by without my hearing from the engineer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the blue, my client contacted me about my project. He wanted to come start site preparation. I went to the phone company to talk to the engineer again. It turned out he was on vacation. When his stand-in came out and took a look at the old pole, he said that there had been a misunderstanding previously about which particular pole I was talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once they realized it was the 1959 pole, they came out and remedied my problem within 4 days! To think, this long delay had been created by a miscommunication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post-Pandemic Era has Come with Many Challenges, many Benefits as Well. Almost everything in life has a good side and a bad side. That has certainly been the case for many business activities in this post-pandemic environment. 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