If you’ve been paying attention to my photostream, this won’t be anything new for you.

A couple of weeks ago, my office found out that we had.. erm… some little friends. What started out as a small ant hill type thing that people thought was the cleaning crew not doing their job ended up being a case of termites! Termites who are LOST. Apparently they hit a crack somewhere and took a wrong turn, which landed them in our office, coming through a crack in the concrete under our carpet.

Someone put a paper cup over the mound on the ground so people wouldn’t step on it & so we had something to show the pest control people. A couple of days after we called someone, they finally showed up, and we moved the paper cup to find something like this (only a bit taller):

Ew, right?? Well, the first pest control place we called ended up being a pain in the ass. They sent out a “rep” to take a look at it, who said he’d call the “termite guy”, and then the “termite guy” said he was going to have to call someone else to come out to actually take care of it, and then they never showed up. WTF? After the weekend, we came in to this:

I didn’t take any pictures of it all week. Anytime I’d walk past, I didn’t have my phone or a camera. This morning, though, I remembered to bring the phone with me, and I took some pictures. Good thing, too, because we found out someone is supposed to be coming into the office tomorrow (yes, on the weekend!) to drill some holes and inject the “termicide”. This is what it looked like when I came in this morning:

Here’s a side view, too.

The gross part about this one is that I THINK the white things are the termites. GROSS! According to one of the ladies who works back there, she said it grew quite a bit before the bug guy took it down. I’m sorry I missed it… they ended up doing it while I was at lunch.

This sign was up when I was taking pics this morning. LOL

Memorial services…. ROFL. This afternoon, after I got back from lunch, this is the scene:

That small hole near the center is where they came up from. I am so sad that work is going to be so boring now. While I’m icked out by the whole concept, it was kind of like a trainwreck. I just couldn’t stop staring. LOL It is a good thing I work all the way up in the front, or I would just be camped out there watching it happen. haha.

Anyway, sadly, this has been the highlight of the last couple of weeks at work. Actually, there is happier news not having to do with work, but I am not putting that with the Termite Post, so I’ll wait a day or so before I squee about the other good news. LOL