diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 51a88d71416265b0c98920564006fd558bca6090..9d8992d5b002c98ad66603db60c19760c8f7bdbe 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ COPY .env .env
 # Install python packages
 COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
-RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app/startup/
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app/startup/
 RUN export IPYTHONDIR /usr/src/app/startup/
 
 COPY python_startup/ /usr/src/app/startup/
diff --git a/python_startup/00_load.py b/python_startup/00_load.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c07808f5c7502d5c27937c683f1b6ee2efea1e41..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/python_startup/00_load.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-from 01_load_db import db_connect, get_table
\ No newline at end of file