TGIGF?
I'm staying up late tonight, it is past midnight and way past my workweek bedtime. Ducky's eggs began to crack and I'm waiting for chickies to appear. It can take a few hours. There is a chance that we'll get off early on Good Friday? Every year a few lucky state agencies always get Good Friday off. I think it has something to do with the 4th of July falling on the weekend and a floating holiday thing. There is some esoteric rule for us though: Governor Perry can call the day off when the legislature is in session on the the third day of the full moon in a year ending in an even number, maybe that's an odd number.... then we'd get a half day.
In my office, employees who don't use vacation time show up with dark circles under their eyes or dressed for a picnic with a cooler in the car ready to hear that we can go home. It never happens. Well, I take that back, it happens, I just don't remember the last time it did. Since Governor Perry has been in office it has not happened.
In the past you hear the rumors all day long that work is about to be called off, will be called off. Rumors that the Governor called the day off but it's up to the department to make the official decision. Rumors that the day has been called off officially usually sends those too lazy or unwilling to fact check out the door. Come Monday morning, the time sheets are disputed.
What does happen every Good Friday is employees grow restless and distracted, unable to work because at any moment they all want to hear the day has been called off. The day continues though, emails and phone calls trickle in from happy friends and relatives who are meeting up and asking what the status is on the day. Some do sneak off. Others grow more and more pissed off having lost their usual, daily work flow and just mingle with the other disgruntled and sleepy co-workers.
I am contemplating take the day off to be around when the chicks are born. Then again, I might go in for a half day in the hopes that I won't have to take those last four hours from my own vacation time. I know, I'm playing right into it. If someone brings in candy or donuts, it's pretty much a free for all and it's accepted that no work will get done. Good Friday.
In my office, employees who don't use vacation time show up with dark circles under their eyes or dressed for a picnic with a cooler in the car ready to hear that we can go home. It never happens. Well, I take that back, it happens, I just don't remember the last time it did. Since Governor Perry has been in office it has not happened.
In the past you hear the rumors all day long that work is about to be called off, will be called off. Rumors that the Governor called the day off but it's up to the department to make the official decision. Rumors that the day has been called off officially usually sends those too lazy or unwilling to fact check out the door. Come Monday morning, the time sheets are disputed.
What does happen every Good Friday is employees grow restless and distracted, unable to work because at any moment they all want to hear the day has been called off. The day continues though, emails and phone calls trickle in from happy friends and relatives who are meeting up and asking what the status is on the day. Some do sneak off. Others grow more and more pissed off having lost their usual, daily work flow and just mingle with the other disgruntled and sleepy co-workers.
I am contemplating take the day off to be around when the chicks are born. Then again, I might go in for a half day in the hopes that I won't have to take those last four hours from my own vacation time. I know, I'm playing right into it. If someone brings in candy or donuts, it's pretty much a free for all and it's accepted that no work will get done. Good Friday.
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