Who Else is at Work Today??? [Archive]

paiger81

10-10-2005, 09:20 AM

Me too!!

And I felt like a dumbass cause I kept seeing "Closed" on the banks and didn't know why.......took till I turned on the radio before it dawned on me.

wordsmith

10-10-2005, 09:20 AM

Always...I wasn't even thinking about it being a holiday!

meatwad

10-10-2005, 09:23 AM

Yup. Here too.

winneythepooh7

10-10-2005, 09:26 AM

Me too. I just realized that is why it is so slow on the boards this morning. Everyone is probably sleeping in!

summergold

10-10-2005, 09:32 AM

Me too. The train was great this morning. Almost no one on it, but I would have rather had the extra hours of sleep.

Bugsey34

10-10-2005, 09:34 AM

Me too, as always.

Tayl405

10-10-2005, 09:35 AM

I'm at work. :mad:

It's MISERABLE outside too and I had the hardest time getting out of bed.

winneythepooh7

10-10-2005, 09:38 AM

Yes, this weather completely sucks. I knew this was going to happen here. It goes from being really really nice to being really really shitty instantly. I must say though that no one on the train this morning was such a pleasure.

pisces2473

10-10-2005, 09:41 AM

I'll be at work when I finally get myself in gear. :p

lilyflower

10-10-2005, 09:45 AM

I'm here too. I actually don't mind too much because this is the first time in weeks traffic in the morning hasn't been a nightmare.

jrwilheim

10-10-2005, 09:50 AM

Me too! Actually, my office faces Fifth Avenue and I'll be able to see the Columbus Day Parade when it marches by starting at around noon.

Columbus Day just never really made it for me as a holiday...kind of like Groundhogs Day or Arbor Day.

Morgan81

10-10-2005, 09:57 AM

Holiday schmoliday.
I'm at my desk. Better question who has the day off? Besides people at Verizon, I already know they're closed.

Winter Storm

10-10-2005, 09:58 AM

Better question who has the day off? Besides people at Verizon, I already know they're closed.

Everybody that's not on today. They're probably still in bed.

Tayl405

10-10-2005, 10:00 AM

I really don't even have much to work on today, so it's gonna be long and slow...

wordsmith

10-10-2005, 10:11 AM

I posted this on the bad things thread, but I made my classic holiday monday blunder...forgot that it's a holiday, and held off contacting some people until today, only to realize that I'm never going to get ahold of anybody who works in the city office. Oops. My boss will be thrilled. I simply cannot file away holidays, since I really only get Christmas, New Year's, and Easter. Everything else, I blank out, since I'm working for it, guaranteed.

LakeJay

10-10-2005, 10:28 AM

Here! :mad:

SmilesSoSweet

10-10-2005, 10:31 AM

I'm at work today. I just got in the office. My next paid holiday isn't until Thanksgiving. :(

Angyl

10-10-2005, 10:32 AM

Chameleon

10-10-2005, 10:42 AM

Checking in. My alarm didn't go off this morning, I rushed in for a 8:30am conference call which didn't happen and the weather is miserable outside. Happy Columbus Day!

labrat2111

10-10-2005, 10:54 AM

I'm here and it's pretty much a normal day for me. I'm reasonably busy and if anything I noticed more traffic on my route into work today.

coll214

10-10-2005, 11:08 AM

Unfortunately me too. Though i have had about 6 people assume i wasn't working today :rolleyes:. Oh I wish!

mishl982

10-10-2005, 11:10 AM

I actually don't mind working today. I'm off Thursday and Friday so I need today to do all my work before then.

I love govt holidays because then my commute to work is almost cut in half.

Kitty

10-10-2005, 11:23 AM

Crap, I didn't even know there was a Holiday until I read this thread. Then, I had to IM Paige to figure out what holiday.

I am out of it!

meatwad

10-10-2005, 11:31 AM

I think I'm gonna go drinking tonight and take tommorow off! :D

wordsmith

10-10-2005, 11:46 AM

ack. same thing, and he was my ONLY contact for this story thats due Tuesday. Man, I'm up shit creek now. I've got one story and a brief when i should have four.

This is the position I'm in, too. I'm wincing every time my boss comes through, I need to come up with a plan B really quickly, here. Fortunately, I tend to do my best thinking when in ass-covering mode. ((hugs)), I'm totally there.

MollyMe

10-10-2005, 12:10 PM

I'm off today.

analogman

10-10-2005, 12:43 PM

Just another normal working day for me :)

Mad Dawg

10-10-2005, 12:50 PM

Not only am I at work, but it is the first day of another lovely week of being on-call. Grrr!!!

Thankfully my next week in the rotation was taken by a guy who needs the money, so I won't be on-call again until the week before Christmas. If I can just make it to Sunday, I will have a nice, long break before engaging my ultimate stresser again.

tina1979

10-10-2005, 12:53 PM

I'm here. I had forgotten about the holiday. no wonder the calls are slow as hell. (not that i am complaining about that)

and1grad

10-10-2005, 01:02 PM

I would like you all to know that Regis & Kelly was damned entertaining this morning. :razz:

Angyl

10-10-2005, 01:03 PM

I would like you all to know that Regis & Kelly was damned entertaining this morning. :razz:

ass. And I was going to vote for you in the wrestlemania thread too.

and1grad

10-10-2005, 01:06 PM

HA! ass or not...you know I would whip their asses in a wrestling match.

Angyl

10-10-2005, 01:07 PM

no way, I know for a fact that girls are often stronger than they appear. Gotta back up my fellow cowardly journalist.

SmilesSoSweet

10-10-2005, 01:16 PM

I would like you all to know that Regis & Kelly was damned entertaining this morning. :razz:

Damn, I need to find a government job!!! :mad:

and1grad

10-10-2005, 01:17 PM

no way, I know for a fact that girls are often stronger than they appear. Gotta back up my fellow cowardly journalist.
HA! I guess you really DO have your head in the sand. ;)

Angyl

10-10-2005, 01:19 PM

HA! I guess you really DO have your head in the sand. ;)

ostriches are Damned hot, if you ask me. Sexiest birds alive!

and1grad

10-10-2005, 01:24 PM

ostriches are Damned hot, if you ask me. Sexiest birds alive!
My only response to that is....Yikes.

Deavan

10-10-2005, 01:32 PM

ditto.....

lilyflower

10-10-2005, 01:50 PM

I've actually been busy today and pretty much everyone is here so it's work as normal for us.

I'm consoling myself with remembering that I get the entire WEEK between Christmas and New Year's off with pay so :p to all of you off today.

Angyl

10-10-2005, 01:53 PM

My only response to that is....Yikes.

mmm al the ruffly feathers and weird scaly skin..... mmmmm.. :D

SmilesSoSweet

10-10-2005, 02:11 PM

I'm consoling myself with remembering that I get the entire WEEK between Christmas and New Year's off with pay so :p to all of you off today.

My last job had that benefit too. My new one doesn't, but I don't mind. We have a four-day weekend over Christmas and a half day and one full day off before and after New Years. I don't mind not getting the time off, because then I can stay out here in Phoenix for New Years. I've spent every New Years at my parents' house since.

Winter Storm

10-10-2005, 02:13 PM

Yeah, we also get odd holidays off like the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.

Plus, I'm still trying to find out how many PTO days I have left. If I didn't take any floating holidays, I may have as many as 17 days left for this year.

So I'll make my own holidays!

coll214

10-10-2005, 02:41 PM

Brillo25

10-10-2005, 02:59 PM

I start my new job in two hours. I'm so stressed out I can hardly eat. :sad:

pisces2473

10-10-2005, 02:59 PM

I'm finally here!!!

wordsmith

10-10-2005, 03:31 PM

I start my new job in two hours. I'm so stressed out I can hardly eat. :sad:

But you don't have to write stories anymore!! That would personally make my stress levels go WAAAAY down.

winneythepooh7

10-10-2005, 03:33 PM

I feel like I am falling asleep at my desk. It is so quiet being in an office alone all the time. Plus I did lots of tedious paperwork which adds to the sleepiness. I think I am just going to leave at 4PM to go home.

Brillo25

10-10-2005, 03:38 PM

But you don't have to write stories anymore!! That would personally make my stress levels go WAAAAY down.
Yes but who knows what other stressors I'll be getting into? A much bigger more intimidating paper, news instead of sports, people with bigger egos, etc. I'll start finding out in about an hour and a half. I'm having major first-day jitters.

haloman

10-10-2005, 03:39 PM

That's the good thing about working for a company that is located in a federal building. If the federal building is closed on that day, the people who work in that building get the day off !!! WOO HOO !!!

winneythepooh7

10-10-2005, 03:44 PM

Even though I am tired, I really don't mind being here. I would just be sitting around if I was home anyways. Now if I was still working in psycho-land you better believe I would have been taking the day off for the holiday :twisted:

Jwaler

10-10-2005, 04:17 PM

Not me! Gotta love DoD jobs.

shimmer728

10-10-2005, 05:22 PM

ME!

I'm in journalism. I usually work either Thanksgiving or Christmas, too. :( The news doesn't stop for the holidays.

shimmer728

10-10-2005, 05:23 PM

Yes but who knows what other stressors I'll be getting into? A much bigger more intimidating paper, news instead of sports, people with bigger egos, etc. I'll start finding out in about an hour and a half. I'm having major first-day jitters.

Good luck, Brillo. I'm sure you'll be fine. :)

Angyl

10-10-2005, 05:23 PM

ME!

I'm in journalism. I usually work either Thanksgiving or Christmas, too. :( The news doesn't stop for the holidays.

doncha wish the world stopped for a day or two during the holidays? I do. I miss holidays and a month off for winter break. Boo.

lilyflower

10-10-2005, 06:29 PM

Not only did I work but I ended up working late.

I was actually considering staying even later to do another experiment - then I remembered that my coworker got in at 8:30 and left at 4:10 as he does EVERY SINGLE DAY.

So I went home :)

yankeeyosh

10-10-2005, 06:45 PM

Not only did I work but I ended up working late.

Me too!

I can't remember ever getting Columbus Day off from work...usually I just had the major holidays, but at least when I was in NY, we had the Jewish high holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) off, so that was a help.

lilyflower

10-10-2005, 07:16 PM

Me too!

I can't remember ever getting Columbus Day off from work...usually I just had the major holidays, but at least when I was in NY, we had the Jewish high holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) off, so that was a help.

I didn't get my data until like 4 pm and then I had to analyze it to figure out what to do next and compare two different systems. And yeah, I almost put another experiment on tonight but seeing my coworker never even work a full shift (and he seriously didn't do a damn thing all day) I got annoyed and left. I'd love to know how coming in between 8:30 and 9 every day and leaving just after the bosses leave at four constitutes a full 40 hour workweek.

J-girl

10-10-2005, 07:46 PM

No work today! :D

wordsmith

10-10-2005, 07:59 PM

Not only did I work but I ended up working late.

Same, here. Pretty standard for a Monday.

pisces2473

10-10-2005, 10:19 PM

I just got home...at 945, that is. I had an author event to cover, so I had to schmooze and smile. But my coworker and I left work before the event, went out for a drink, then went back to work...hehehe...