Predictions for fed gov't tomorrow (Tuesday)?

[Anonymous]

Isn't snow mostly done now at 5-6 inches though with the possibility of another 1-3 inches this evening? So it likely depends on how plowing looks late afternoon/evening. I'm guessing liberal telework - while 66 and 395 will be fine - I'm not so sure about neighborhoods or even the major routes in towns being ok to get people to the highways/metro stations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unscheduled leave/telework seems likely since it's still snowing and all of the school districts will close tomorrow.

Really hoping it’s closed and not just unscheduled leave.

I swear -- dcum is full of such lazy people.

[Anonymous]

My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't snow mostly done now at 5-6 inches though with the possibility of another 1-3 inches this evening? So it likely depends on how plowing looks late afternoon/evening. I'm guessing liberal telework - while 66 and 395 will be fine - I'm not so sure about neighborhoods or even the major routes in towns being ok to get people to the highways/metro stations.[/quote


Everything is Fine, I drove two hours this morning in a roundrtrip between 8am and nine am in Maryland, DC and Virginia. Was on tons of roads. No issues

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

That’s ridiculous. I get up at 6 am because I have to get 3 kids to 2 schools, sidewalks won’t be clear for at least a day, and some people need to wait for help to shovel out.

No in the 90s it would be a snow day; and real one without telework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unscheduled leave/telework seems likely since it's still snowing and all of the school districts will close tomorrow.

Really hoping it’s closed and not just unscheduled leave.

I swear -- dcum is full of such lazy people.

I’m going to be taking off either way as I have elementary aged kids, a deployed spouse, and no telework option, but yeah it would be nice not to have to burn additional leave (which is already stretched thin due to two young kids and said lack of teleworking capacity) for a significant weather event out of my control. Nor do I think it’s prudent to call 10s of thousands of non-emergency fed workers into the office tomorrow morning when it’s clear that a massive swath of the roads are still going to be uncleared.

I don’t think that makes me lazy, just pragmatic.

[Anonymous]

I predict two hour delay and unscheduled telework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

That’s ridiculous. I get up at 6 am because I have to get 3 kids to 2 schools, sidewalks won’t be clear for at least a day, and some people need to wait for help to shovel out.

No in the 90s it would be a snow day; and real one without telework.

I grew up here. This would always have been a snow day since the 70s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

If there were normal rush hour traffic today, the plows would not have been able to clear the streets so nicely for you and you would have been stuck in traffic,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m going against the grain and saying closed. (DCUM tends to be ridiculously conservative/off the mark with these predictions)

If it keeps snowing, then closed (possibly liberal leave). I don't know how much they take into consideration folks that have to work in person (I do). If my street isn't plowed it's really not safe for me to make it to the main road - I imagine others are in the same boat.

I think they do and the public misconception that almost all Feds are able to telework actually helps our cause in these circumstances. OPM can declare a building closure/mass telework and those who regularly bash the “lazy Feds all working from home in their pjs” don’t really have anything more to complain about.

I am amazed that two people who know that I am full time remote assumed that I was not working today because they heard the government was closed. It is not closed for people who can work from home. I wish the media would make that more clear,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

It was clear because everyone else was off the roads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't snow mostly done now at 5-6 inches though with the possibility of another 1-3 inches this evening? So it likely depends on how plowing looks late afternoon/evening. I'm guessing liberal telework - while 66 and 395 will be fine - I'm not so sure about neighborhoods or even the major routes in towns being ok to get people to the highways/metro stations.[/quote


Everything is Fine, I drove two hours this morning in a roundrtrip between 8am and nine am in Maryland, DC and Virginia. Was on tons of roads. No issues

Do you seriously not get there were no issues because everyone else stayed off the roads? Are you really that obtuse?

[Anonymous]

Agree with predictions for 2-hour delay and unscheduled telework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company did full WFH today. There really was no reason to do it.

I had to drop off my kid at Amtrak in DC this morning at 9am. I woke up at 6 am, managed to shovel driveway, get dressed, eat, drive in to DC Union station and drop kid off at 9am.

The roads all around Capital and Union station were all plowed, I drove down River Road right down Clara Barton Parkway into DC no problem, on way home made a wrong turn so ended up on 66 back to 95 and back off on River Road. So were on a bunch of roads.

If was the 1990s everyone be at work and at school.

That’s ridiculous. I get up at 6 am because I have to get 3 kids to 2 schools, sidewalks won’t be clear for at least a day, and some people need to wait for help to shovel out.

No in the 90s it would be a snow day; and real one without telework.

I grew up here. This would always have been a snow day since the 70s.

+1

I also grew up here. I guarantee this would have been a snow day in the 90’s. Probably a two-day one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m going against the grain and saying closed. (DCUM tends to be ridiculously conservative/off the mark with these predictions)

I’m with you, PP!!