and I'm downloading Kung Fu Panda. Again, Raq - all your fault

Hah. You know my hope is that Iris will battle Mal for the privilege of being Master Tigress, and I won't have to keep calling my son a gender-bending furry.

I was hoping the DH would be able to go into work today, because we're all feeling the strain, but the gov't's on liberal leave, so his training class is cancelled.

OTOH, Hillary has already removed Condi's "I LOVE BUSH" wall.

I think my job is actually trying to kill me.

Because we had Teh Snow (and freezing rain) yesterday, I worked from home. I don't know how many people went in to the office, but I'm assuming that those who *did* go in were told IN PERSON that the office would be closed today.

Nobody called me last night or this morning, so I assumed we were open. We're on a big ugly deadline, so I got ready, spent literally 30 minutes digging out my car, and started out on some very VERY bad roads.

I was already late, so I called work to tell them I *was* on my way in. I get the recording that says "Our office hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. -- if you get this message during those hours, we are CLOSED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER."

It was 8:25 when I called and got that message. Using a Venn diagram, if you get that message during office hours, we are closed; I called during office hours and got that message; therefore, we are closed AND NO ONE CALLED TO TELL ME.

So just to be sure, I called Big!Boss's daughter (who is technically our entire HR department) on her cell phone to find out if we were really closed, or if maybe the message was still on because no one had YET made it in but we really were open.

Got her voice mail. WHAT.

In the meantime, I'm still driving through some seriously awful roads, and everything in the world is closed today (even U. Cincy, which NEVER closes).

So I go put gas in my car; getting to BP and fueling up, etc., takes about another 20 minutes (mostly driving time). So I decide that, before I turn around and head for home, I'll call work again, because maybe everyone was running late.

Get the same voice mail about "if you get this message, we're closed."

Decide to call Big!Boss's daughter one more time, to do due diligence (it's about 9 a.m. at this point). Get her voice mail again. I tried to not scream at her voice mail and just said, "Hey, no one called to tell me we were closed; I'm ON THE ROAD, but I'm going back home. Please call me and tell me either way if we're closed or open; if we're open, I'll come back in."

It's 10:00 and I still haven't heard Jack or shit.

I'm annoyed that I could have slept in, sure. I'm sore from digging out my car, but it had to be done at some point.

But I'm PISSED that no one called me to tell me not to DRIVE IN GODDAMN DANGEROUS WEATHER ON GODDAMN DANGEROUS ROADS.

Seriously? They dislike me THAT much?

PISSED.

Oh Tep, I am so sorry about the craptastic morning drive and bullshit!!

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Teppy, that seriously sucks.

TCG is home today.

Speaking of facebook and family, can I post pictures to only part of my friends list? Because I ended up getting my mother in trouble with her cousin and now she doesn't want me to post my bridal shower pictures.

That sucks, Steph. Do they not understand the entire point of closing for weather?

That's pretty terrible, Steph. What asses.

Steph, that does indeed suck. Though, it could just be an oversight rather than intentional dissing. The last day we had a snow day at the school I work at, I e-mailed my boss to confirm it. She was like, "You didn't get a call on the phone tree?" I was all, "What phone tree?" And she was mortified. I had been left off said creation of the phone tree. Oops. So, I hope it is something like that rather than complete jerkiness.

My office never calls us for snow days. (We almost never get them, but still.) We have a number WE are supposed to call in case of emergencies, and that's it. Sometimes the receptionist will call the department heads and information will filter down.

No, I'm just being melodramatic (me? surely not!). I don't actually think they were deliberately being malicious. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but still a fucking dangerous one. Within the last hour, the county declared a Level 3 snow emergency, which means only police/emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads.

SO GLAD my office let me drive in that.

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My office never calls us for snow days. (We almost never get them, but still.) We have a number WE are supposed to call in case of emergencies, and that's it.

I'd happily do that, but the office policy always has been that there's a phone tree. So whoever forgot to call me is getting punched in the head tomorrow.

That's pretty terrible, Steph. What asses.

We already knew they were asses. They don't really have to keep proving it.

This is reminding me of something I'm still mad about, and it's been a good 15 years. We had an ice storm start during work hours, and by the time I started to leave, the 55 miles to my house seemed like a bad idea. A co-worker offered to let me stay at her house. My car was parked outside at her house, and when I got up bright and early to go to work, it was covered by a sheet of ice and I couldn't get the door open. I chipped at ice and swore and called in every half an hour for two hours before I got the door open. At that point, I decided to just go home while the streets were relatively clear. I passed my office on the way home. It turned out that they closed the office at 11 a.m., and anyone who had shown up at all, even for 15 minutes, was paid for the day and everyone else had to take vacation. So I had to take a vacation day, even though I had spent the whole damn morning trying to get to work.