Ha! I recall something similar some time ago at one of the then big valley companies. There was a big procedure around moving equipment and one could not do it oneself --it required a ticket and then a day or so later some guys would come over and move things that I could have done myself with one of those rubbermaid restaurant service carts.
Ironically, my previous job was an internship at a big valley company, who's former HQ is now occupied by one of the biggest valley companies. There, I needed to ship a bunch of equipment to another office. It needed to be there in 3 weeks, but the soonest the shipping department could pick it up was 4 weeks for some reason. However, there was an unspoken agreement w/the folks there that anything that made it to the shipping area would be shipped w/no questions asked as long as it "just appeared" there. So, over the course of a few nights, I stayed late and moved the equipment to the dock, labeled it appropriately, and everything made it to the destination on time.
