Lack of Planning on YOUR Part...

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...should not be an emergency on MINE. Yet yesterday our landlord started blowing up our phones at about 11:30 AM. My phone was in my purse in the break room so I was oblivious to it until my husband came storming into where I was busily melting my brain with e-learnings and told me he needed me to come with him right now. So we went and called the landlord back, and SURPRISE! There's work being done on our building's foundation, and they need access to our garage to do it! But it's okay if we aren't available, the super can just take the key and let the foundation guys in. Which yes, that would typically be a viable option... if our garage wasn't packed full of stuff that needed to move before they can do anything in there. So I left work an hour and a half early and then spent the rest of the afternoon loading stuff into my car and taking it over to a storage unit. We still have to find a place for the chest freezer to go, but the garage is mostly clear now. I'm hoping to catch the foundation guys when they get here in a couple hours so we can clarify exactly what needs to be done; the worker I spoke to yesterday said they're digging two 3' x 3' holes inside and three more out in our fenced yard. That lines up with the blueprint that was texted to us, but he indicated the ones inside would be in different spots than the ones that were marked on the blueprint. There's also a bit of a discrepancy because the super thinks one of them is supposed to go exactly where our water heater currently is, but based on where it's marked on the blueprint it looks like it should be in the little attached storage unit behind the garage instead. It sounds like they're going to be injecting foam under the concrete pad from inside our unit, too... and if the highlighted spots on the blueprint are accurate, every spot they're applying it corresponds exactly to where our reptile enclosures are. At least the timing for springing this on us is better than it could be... all I'm doing is e-learnings that are a kind of work-at-your-own-pace thing, and it's a slow week for the installers so my husband had no issue putting the jobs he had for today onto someone else's board and taking the day off to deal with the stuff at home. And while my landlord is typically great and I'm sure that this is just the result of an accidental miscommunication, the petty part of me is really cackling over the fact that the super who was supposed to notify us is also having to clear his garage out for this.