I love paranoia.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Dear BossMan,

I love you. I am now going home to work from there, per your request of my entire team.

I realize that the weather in Texas is catastrophic when the weather reports forecast frozen doom and tell us we're all going to die icy and tundric deaths, even though this is always a gross exaggeration.

Additionally, thank you for putting in place a pop-up message for all clients that states we are not in the office and to try and hold off until tomorrow.

I'll be at home, listening to Skinny Puppy, playing WoW and waiting for the calls.

Ever Respectfully Your Servant,
Toxico

Comments

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Lucky bastard :)

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Just so you and I are clear this time, yes I am getting paid. :P

[maskofsmiles]

Lucky wench! *grumbles about no snow/sleet/freezing something coming down here*

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Must be nice. Other than being fracking freezing out, though, the roads are fine...for now. Temps still dropping, so it should be fun going home this afternoon.

Wish I could stay home and play CoX today. :)

[snarl817.livejournal.com]

They're not predicting frozen doom, just icy roads. See, I lived in Colorado before moving here...I can drive on ice. The rest of the morons out there CAN'T, so I stay the hell off the road when the weather is like this. In fact, the last time I drove during an ice storm, I was passed by a guy in an SUV doing about 70 mph. A few miles down the road, he caused a 4 car pileup. That convinced me that I need to stay off the road.

Plus, I WANT to work from home today. Even the National Weather Service agrees:
"TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED ACROSS THE METROPLEX THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON."

[toxico.livejournal.com]

What you just described could be construed as "frozen doom" to those of us who can't afford deductibles at the moment.

I lived in Seattle and went snowboarding frequently; I as well learned how to drive on ice and/or snow. I'm not worried about my driving so much as that of others near me.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

That's the major problem here - *we* know how to drive, it's the other morons out there that scare me.

[neferde.livejournal.com]

Did you get to hear about the backups on the freeways after the Seahawks game on Monday? 6+ hour long backups due to the snow; people were pulling their cars over onto the shoulders of I-5, getting out, and walking home or finding motels, and I-90 at Issaquah had more snow and ice on the road than the pass did. It was so bad it took until the thaw this morning for King Country Metro to dig all their busses out of the snow and ice. True Northwest style frozen doom!

[jon787.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly. The most dangerous part of winter driving where I used to live was the tourists. I just moved somewhere else and am about to go through my first winter. I'm terrified of the other drivers.

My rule of winter driving:
If you think you need 4WD, then you need to learn to drive.

How much did you guys get down there to shut everything down? 1 inch?

[snarl817.livejournal.com]

About 1 inch of snow, and half an inch of ice. On Friday it took me an hour and a half to get to work (a trip that normally takes me 30 minutes). People were in full-blown panic about "ice" on the roads...when most of it was just water. Everytime there was a bridge coming up, they would slam on the brakes to try and slow down. Me? I would just let up on the throttle a little and keep the wheel straight so if I did lose traction, I'd keep going straight.

Bunch of MORONS out here, I tell you.

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

This is what we were told during our training.

"If there is bad weather, you can always sign out and go home. We won't stop you, or ever hold it against you. We may ask for volunteers to stay at the motel down the street overnight, at our expense of course, to make sure we can keep the call center open. In any case, bad weather will never be held against you."

Most of my team will do the motel thing. After all, it has a bar.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with working in Silicon Valley - you almost never have to stay home due to weather. Unless there's a massive, area-wide power outage, the trains run, the busses run, and the office is full.

Enjoy your bad-weather day.

[wignersfriend.livejournal.com]

The way people drive out here when it's rainy should encourage officials to deem anything more than a light sprinkling a state of emergency, however.

I've had more fun on the clock, at home, than playing WoW. ;-)