Dec. 19th, 2008 09:49 am
The White Stuff
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muckefuckSo here we are: Despite a punishing, unprecedented 2.5" (6.35 cm) of snow, my workplace has failed to place the safety and well-being of its employees at the forefront of its decision-making and shut down. God help us all!
The walk in was basically fine, despite the fact that no one on my street had shoveled. Actually, that depends on what you consider "my street". Arthur does this little jog at Glenwood; on the west are mostly larger apartment buildings (like mine) and on the east mostly duplexes and three-flats. Earlier in the week, I was bitching about the Easterners' aversion to salt and comparing their walks unfavorably to those of the larger buildings. Well, I take it all back: Half or more of them were out there today breaking their backs hoisting shovels or pushing snowblowers so my commute would be a little less arduous whereas the building engineers had done exactly jack shit. For shame!
That includes our building, by the way. Since we're self-managed (and more than a little stingy), we don't have an engineer or a service. Instead, we pay our neighbour to run the snowblower. The trouble is that snow-blowing, unlike say lawn-trimming, really needs to be done first thing after the snow falls, not whenever you can fit it in between your regular job and your classwork. I considered doing some shovelling before I set out, but if I'm going to do his work, then you better believe I want his pay.
I also noticed that the streets were completely unplowed. Some of my co-workers were asserting that the City was a lot more lax about snow removal on Tuesday than they were last year (where we exceeded the budgeted amount by half again as much or more), but since I moved, it makes it hard to judge. Certainly Sheridan road seemed fine and the shuttle had no trouble keeping to its regular schedule.
So even though I was in 9ish as normal, "10 before 10" isn't going to happen today. IT is switching around some servers, so various vital functions are inaccessible indefinitely. This is in addition to the creeping virus-like malfunctions yesterday which were preventing people from working on records that had elements beginning with particular sequences of numbers or letters. (You could save a record with the geographic code for "Germany", for instance, but not an identical record with the code for "Kenya".) So I really might have to scrape some barrels to fill out my 7.5 hours.
The walk in was basically fine, despite the fact that no one on my street had shoveled. Actually, that depends on what you consider "my street". Arthur does this little jog at Glenwood; on the west are mostly larger apartment buildings (like mine) and on the east mostly duplexes and three-flats. Earlier in the week, I was bitching about the Easterners' aversion to salt and comparing their walks unfavorably to those of the larger buildings. Well, I take it all back: Half or more of them were out there today breaking their backs hoisting shovels or pushing snowblowers so my commute would be a little less arduous whereas the building engineers had done exactly jack shit. For shame!
That includes our building, by the way. Since we're self-managed (and more than a little stingy), we don't have an engineer or a service. Instead, we pay our neighbour to run the snowblower. The trouble is that snow-blowing, unlike say lawn-trimming, really needs to be done first thing after the snow falls, not whenever you can fit it in between your regular job and your classwork. I considered doing some shovelling before I set out, but if I'm going to do his work, then you better believe I want his pay.
I also noticed that the streets were completely unplowed. Some of my co-workers were asserting that the City was a lot more lax about snow removal on Tuesday than they were last year (where we exceeded the budgeted amount by half again as much or more), but since I moved, it makes it hard to judge. Certainly Sheridan road seemed fine and the shuttle had no trouble keeping to its regular schedule.
So even though I was in 9ish as normal, "10 before 10" isn't going to happen today. IT is switching around some servers, so various vital functions are inaccessible indefinitely. This is in addition to the creeping virus-like malfunctions yesterday which were preventing people from working on records that had elements beginning with particular sequences of numbers or letters. (You could save a record with the geographic code for "Germany", for instance, but not an identical record with the code for "Kenya".) So I really might have to scrape some barrels to fill out my 7.5 hours.