Goodbye, giant corner office

"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
06/29/2018 at 22:38 • Filed to: None

We’re moving to a new building over the weekend and it’s much nicer but I’ll have half as much space.

DISCUSSION (26)

CB > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:44

I mean, as sweet as a corner office is, the view is also important.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:45

I like the interior style, but the view is kinda meh. Might be interesting on a rainy evening.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:47

Been there. I once went from a nice 12th floor private office with an ocean view to a shared cubicle in the basement of a parking structure.

LOREM IPSUM > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:47

That view screams liquid lunch.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:47

Staring at a liquor store all day would drive me to drinking. I mean not that I already don’t or anything.

WilliamsSW > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 22:51

I w o u l d m i s s the v i e w o f the l iquor sto r e m o s t t b h

boredalways > LOREM IPSUM
06/29/2018 at 22:51

But it's a great way to lose weight, they said.

smobgirl > LOREM IPSUM
06/29/2018 at 23:00

Our fridge is always well stocked.

smobgirl > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/29/2018 at 23:01

Oh no.

smobgirl > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
06/29/2018 at 23:02

It’s fucking terrifying on a rainy evening. I can see every storm as it rolls into Denver and the tinted windows make it look like a light drizzle is the apocalypse.

smobgirl > CB
06/29/2018 at 23:02

True true. The new one overlooks a creek.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 23:02

They opened up a tattoo parlor next door to my old office. Having half naked people chain smoking 15 feet from my office window was... interesting. Needless to say I was happy to move.

smobgirl > WilliamsSW
06/29/2018 at 23:03

I will truly miss seeing the oddities that show up because of the DMV in a different part of the strip mall.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 23:27

A DMV and a liquor store in the same strip mall? That it damned brilliant . You’ve got something to do while waiting that way.

DutchieDC2R > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 23:32

It seriously looks like everything on those windows is projected by a beamer.

smobgirl > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
06/29/2018 at 23:40

Y’know, you may have just clued me in to why the exotic ammo store was closed.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 23:48

I would welcome a smaller office, because in theory, for me less space should equal less clutter.

Hopefully, you’re better than I. You can always think of a smaller office as “cozier.”

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > smobgirl
06/29/2018 at 23:52

Sweet IKEA chair, I kinda love those.

smobgirl > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
06/30/2018 at 00:20

That’s actually why I don’t have an L-shaped desk. Minimizes the amount of crap that can fit on it.

smobgirl > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
06/30/2018 at 00:21

It’s SO comfy, yet also terribly awkward for prospective employees to use in interviews!

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
06/30/2018 at 00:54

Hey do you know what I need to do to get my car that I brought here from TX registered that still has a note on it? The one I own outright I figure I can just get inspected and bring the title to the DMV in Santa Fe but I really have no clue what I’m supposed to do with the one the bank has the title for.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > smobgirl
06/30/2018 at 01:01

I gave up a a pretty big office with a window for a tiny interior cubicle. And a 5-figure pay raise, 1/3 the commute and living at 7,250 ft . Two weeks in and it really isn’t all that bad. The next cube over has a window - I do miss that. They are trying to get me an actual office as soon as they have space, but even when they do it’ll be years before I can move up to one anywhere close to the size I had at my old job. On the other hand, I go outside to this:

Kinja'd!!!

I guess what I’m saying is as long as you have enough space to do your job less space in a nicer place can be a net win.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
06/30/2018 at 01:51

Oh man, that’s a good question that the MVD doesn’t really explain. Funny enough, I just did that with the F-150. Unless you live in Bernalillio County, there is no emission inspection (and there are no safety inspections). There are probably three or four trips to the MVD office in your future. You’ll want to have your NM licenses first. The first step for the cars is to get New Mexico insurance policies.

For the one you own outright, you’ll take your NM licence, proof of insurance for it, the car itself and the Texas title to the MVD. They’ll have you bring it around in the parking lot where the clerk will do a vin inspection on it (look at the vin in multiple places, make sure it matches the Texas paper work, look at the mileage and their system will run an NCIC check on the VIN to make sure it doesn’t come back stolen anywhere). Then you’ll pick the style of plate you want and walk out with a plate and NM title for it that day.

For the one with the lien, it is a lot less fun. You’ll take your NM license, proof of insurance and the Texas registration and purchase agreement (they’ll want to see something with the lien holder’s name and address) to the MVD office. They’ll issue you a temporary 30 day registration (don’t take the Texas plates and sticker off yet; you’ll learn why later) and send a form off to the lender asking them to send the Texas title to the MVD office (confirm with your lender what address they want that form sent to in advance).

The next part is fun, because Texas is an e-title state and NM isn’t. Your lender has the NM form, they’ll send a special request to the Texas DMV to have a paper Texas title printed, which takes time. The Texas DMV will mail that title to your lender. Your lender will then mail the paper title directly to the MVD office you got the temporary registration from.

The MVD will tell you that they’ll call you when the title is in for you to come back and finish the process. That’s a lie. They won’t call you, and you can’t call them. So far as I can tell, no MVD field office answers their phones (ever), and the state wide 1-800 number can’t help you because the title will be sent directly to the office you dealt with. You’ll have to physically go by the office to find out if they’ve got it yet. This process will probably take more than the 30 days the temporary registration is good for, which is why you want to leave the Texas plates and sticker on the car. I stopped by at the 30 day mark and they didn’t have it yet. I stopped by again about 10 days later and they had my title the 2nd time. The other car with a lien in the household took a similar amount of time.

Once the office has the Texas title in hand, you show up with all your documents and the vehicle. They’ll do a VIN inspection in the parking lot and then issue the NM title and plates. You’ll see the NM title, but won’t leave with it. That gets send back to your lender. Then you get to have a beer to celebrate and hang the Texas plates on the wall in the garage.

I can’t believe the this was actually the process, and that it somehow actually worked for me, but it did. However, I was also doing this in Las Cruces where folks moving to and from El Paso is a really common thing, so those offices do this every day. Offices up North may not do this as often. I would make sure you have something with you that shows the price paid for the cars when you bought them and the taxes that were paid in Texas. The Texas rate is higher (6.25% instead of 3%), so you won’t owe anything. In Las Cruces, they never asked because the clerks all knew the rate was higher in Texas and had already been paid if the car has a Texas title. Something tells me there is a chance a clerk up North might try to charge you sales tax on whatever KBB blackbook value the system pulls up for the car if don’t keep an eye out for it. The whole process is one of those great minds of the 19th century type things in New Mexico.

Good luck!

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
06/30/2018 at 10:35

Thank you so much for the detailed response. I figured when I couldn’t find the process it would be a headache. (It was not that difficult to get my truck with a lien in PA titled in TX when I moved there 10 years ago.) Fortunately I do still have all the paperwork from the purchase of both cars, even the one that is paid off. At this point I’m wondering if it will be less trouble to just wait until I’ve sold my house in TX (which will be the beginning of August if the current offer doesn’t fall apart - we’re still in the option period) and use some of the proceeds from that to pay off the $7k I still owe on the Forester and go to the MVD with a clean title when I get it.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
06/30/2018 at 10:36

Another interesting difference here is that the DVM deals with registrations here but in TX its the county tax office.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
06/30/2018 at 11:10

I’m a native New Mexican and was only a temporary interloper in Texas. The whole thing just felt strange . Texas DPS was the entity that did drivers licensing, the DMV did titling, inspection and registration, but the access point and money collector was through the county tax offices. It seemed like the long way around.