Home Early
Jan. 7th, 2020 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenBad weather was expected, so non-essential Federal agencies in the DC area closed early. This wasn’t quite the way they usually handle this kind of thing; employees were not just permitted to depart early, or told that “liberal leave” was in effect, so they could quit early, or come in late, and their supervisors would then let them take annual leave, or make up the hours. Instead, at least at the Patent and Trademark Office, we were told that the building would be closed, and we had to be out by 1:00 PM.
I told my supervisor that I had grown up in Pennsylvania and gone to college in Massachusetts, and I could handle a little snow, but he emphasized that the email said we had to be out. So I left some stuff undone, took the Metro to Pentagon City, and then walked a mile and a half home. It was raining a bit, with snow expected; I think snow was really expected to the north, but I live south of the Potomac. Once home, I ate my brownbag lunch, did a little reading, and took a nap. By this time, it’s dark and wet out, but still no snowstorm.
I told my supervisor that I had grown up in Pennsylvania and gone to college in Massachusetts, and I could handle a little snow, but he emphasized that the email said we had to be out. So I left some stuff undone, took the Metro to Pentagon City, and then walked a mile and a half home. It was raining a bit, with snow expected; I think snow was really expected to the north, but I live south of the Potomac. Once home, I ate my brownbag lunch, did a little reading, and took a nap. By this time, it’s dark and wet out, but still no snowstorm.
