are federal government offices closed tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

Who are considered "Emergency employees?"

[Anonymous]

The Federal Government closes pretty easily. I don't think the taxpayers appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

The "federal government" isn't closed tomorrow. The "federal government" includes people working all over the US and the world.

Offices in the DC area are closed tomorrow due to weather-related conditions, poor access by road and metro, lack of available parking, and so on. There's good reason to close most offices in the DC area tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

PP. I diagree The Federal Government does not close very often. Usually, they do liberal leave policy.

[Anonymous]

That should be disagree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are considered "Emergency employees?"

Anyone so designated by their agencies.

http://www.opm.gov/status/index.aspx

Designation of Emergency Personnel

Agencies should designate emergency employees who are critical to agency operations in dismissal or closure situations. Each agency head has the discretion to identify and designate those employees who he or she judges to be necessary to continue agency operations in any given emergency situation. There are no standard definitions or categories in this regard, and agency heads (or their designees, as applicable) are free to make such determinations based on the agency’s unique mission requirements and/or circumstances. The designation of emergency employees may vary according to the particular nature of an exigency. Such designations should be part of an agency’s emergency response/continuity of operations plans and should be communicated (preferably well in advance) to emergency employees, so that they can be prepared to support and sustain agency operations in an emergency.

[Anonymous]

How did we go from federal government closing to Obama and Bush bashing?

Obama did kid about closing over nothing last year. It was nothing! Maybe for MD/DC it was a lot but for Chicago and for New England (where I used to live) it was nothing.

Same with this snowstorm. It ended Saturday night, in CT, ME, Mass. or Chicago they'd all have school Monday and everyone would be back to work. No big deal. People around here just don't have the same resources and guts to deal with it.

My goodness people take a chill pill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did we go from federal government closing to Obama and Bush bashing?

Obama did kid about closing over nothing last year. It was nothing! Maybe for MD/DC it was a lot but for Chicago and for New England (where I used to live) it was nothing.

Same with this snowstorm. It ended Saturday night, in CT, ME, Mass. or Chicago they'd all have school Monday and everyone would be back to work. No big deal. People around here just don't have the same resources and guts to deal with it.

My goodness people take a chill pill.

ONCE IF FOR ALL QUIT COMPARING DC TO CHICAGO AND BOSTON AND MASS AND CLEVELAND, ETC. THAT GET SNOW ALL WINTER LONG!! DC is a southern city---we rarely get one this big. I was in Atlanta during a 4 inch snowstorm and things were shut for days. We do not have the resources or the capacity to handle this. I am a native Washingtonian and this is one of the things I always loved about this city. We DO shut down during a big snow. It's wonderful. I feel like a kid. Our schools would close for a week (we'd make it up in the summer) and it was the greatest thing ever.

I am married to a Clevelander so he is in disbelief and loves to get his digs in, but even he understands it. I did not drive in the snow, never learned how. He grew up doing it. I'd be a danger on the road today--he would be fine.

Okay?