School's out Monday AND Tuesday (house, schools, contractor)

[sullyguy]

Just an FYI in case ya hadn't read/heard: FCPS Emergency Page

[choff5]

Originally Posted by sullyguy

Just an FYI in case ya hadn't read/heard: FCPS Emergency Page

Best thing to do for the next two days is hunker down and stay put. Use the power now, I'm baking brownies , then when it goes out, find a flashlight and start reading the old fashion way.

[hilsmom]

this whole thing is nothing but bad in my house. BAAAD timing. Several work deadlines, now kid at home, a husband complaining about being a gov't contractor who WON'T just be given the day off, possibility of losing power and internet at such a busy time for work...and I'm pretty sure I'm PMSing. I'm just venting - I obviously want everyone to be safe, but FCPS was already off for 2 days NEXT week. As an hourly employee, my next paycheck is going to SUCK!

BOO!

[choff5]

The real scary part of this is we are now using two of the three build in snow days, IF we even get back on Wednesday, and if there are wide spread power outages there is a possibility of more than just two. Then on top of this they are predicting a hard winter. At least by having these early I can foresee the loss of some of the work days already, which is fine by me, rather do that than go later in June. The days next week will stand, they are parent-teacher conferences plus election. Instead all the teachers are going to be scrambling to redo lessons, etc.

[ChristineVA]

Originally Posted by hilsmom

this whole thing is nothing but bad in my house. BAAAD timing. Several work deadlines, now kid at home, a husband complaining about being a gov't contractor who WON'T just be given the day off, possibility of losing power and internet at such a busy time for work...and I'm pretty sure I'm PMSing. I'm just venting - I obviously want everyone to be safe, but FCPS was already off for 2 days NEXT week. As an hourly employee, my next paycheck is going to SUCK!

BOO!

Tell him not to be too bitter! Since 2010, many government employees have gone under telework agreements. When the government is closed, we are required to telework. My office will be teleworking tomorrow. If they do not do it, they will be docked annual leave.

[CaliTerp07]

Originally Posted by choff5

The real scary part of this is we are now using two of the three build in snow days, IF we even get back on Wednesday, and if there are wide spread power outages there is a possibility of more than just two. Then on top of this they are predicting a hard winter. At least by having these early I can foresee the loss of some of the work days already, which is fine by me, rather do that than go later in June. The days next week will stand, they are parent-teacher conferences plus election. Instead all the teachers are going to be scrambling to redo lessons, etc.

That was my thought too. I realize they didn't really have a choice about closing, but I'm nervous about what's going to happen if we miss a week due to snow in January.

And yeah, I actually had Monday AND Tuesday/Wednesday (we have block schedule) lessons all planned out, and now if we go back to school on Wednesday it's all shot to heck (since I'll see half my kids Wednesday, but not the rest...) They should just give us Wednesday too to keep things even

[Carlingtonian]

Originally Posted by ChristineVA

Tell him not to be too bitter! Since 2010, many government employees have gone under telework agreements. When the government is closed, we are required to telework. My office will be teleworking tomorrow. If they do not do it, they will be docked annual leave.

Remind me never to apply for a job where you work!

The OPM Status page seems to say that if you're telework-ready AND were going to telework anyway that day, you have to do so. (Which seems fair.) But what if such a person loses power? Hopefully they'd get the administrative leave, since not being able to work wouldn't be their fault.

Here's the text from that page:

"Telework-Ready Employees who are scheduled to perform telework on the day of the announcement or who are required to perform unscheduled telework on a day when Federal offices are closed to the public must telework the entire workday or request leave, or a combination of both, in accordance with their agencies' policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements."

[choff5]

Originally Posted by CaliTerp07

That was my thought too. I realize they didn't really have a choice about closing, but I'm nervous about what's going to happen if we miss a week due to snow in January.

And yeah, I actually had Monday AND Tuesday/Wednesday (we have block schedule) lessons all planned out, and now if we go back to school on Wednesday it's all shot to heck (since I'll see half my kids Wednesday, but not the rest...) They should just give us Wednesday too to keep things even

If we have massive power outages, and they can't get the bucket trucks out and people up poles until the winds die down, I won't be surprised if we are still out on Wednesday. After last summer's Direcho there was a good hand full of schools that took a long time to get open again. Didn't matter as school was out but I wonder how the county would handle it if some schools were without power and others were good.

[ChristineVA]

Originally Posted by Carlingtonian

Remind me never to apply for a job where you work!

The OPM Status page seems to say that if you're telework-ready AND were going to telework anyway that day, you have to do so. (Which seems fair.) But what if such a person loses power? Hopefully they'd get the administrative leave, since not being able to work wouldn't be their fault.

Yes, if a person loses power an exception is made.

We are ad-hoc teleworkers where I am and we had to sign an agreement. Once you do that, you then become "liable" to telework during a shutdown (this came about from Snowmageddon). We all signed the agreement because, heck, overall, it's a sweet deal for us. We aren't "regular" teleworkers but we ad-hoc telework once a week and it is just a great situation.

[Carlingtonian]

Originally Posted by ChristineVA

Yes, if a person loses power an exception is made.

We are ad-hoc teleworkers where I am and we had to sign an agreement. Once you do that, you then become "liable" to telework during a shutdown (this came about from Snowmageddon). We all signed the agreement because, heck, overall, it's a sweet deal for us. We aren't "regular" teleworkers but we ad-hoc telework once a week and it is just a great situation.

We have a very similar setup. However, the insanely high level of bureaucracy at my agency has meant that neither I nor those I work with have their telework approved. (My agency requires five forms in order to telework, and if one of them has the wrong box checked, or you didn't state which room of the house you'd be working in, etc., it gets rejected.) So my agency's Dilbertian, OCD-level fussiness has in this case produced the opposite of the effect it intended.