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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe OPM shut down the government at 3pm for that. Well, no I can believe it. [/quote]

Again, you're a moron. [/quote]

Oh, did you have a crazy storm at 3pm? 4 pm? 5pm?  I think we all know who the morons are. Did you make this call for OPM or something?  I hope you get fired. [/quote]

NP. If they'd closed government offices at 3 p.m. because a crazy storm was expected at 3 p.m., THEN I'd be expecting to see someone fired for it. The whole point of closing before you think the storm is going to hit is so people have ample time to commute home.

As for everyone who's outraged that preparations were taken that, in retrospect, did not turn out to be needed for most of the area, that seems like a win? Definitely better than the reverse. Feel free to stay at your office until exactly when the weather it supposed to get bad the next time the National Weather Service says conditions are ripe for a tornado; [b]was anyone actually FORCED to go home today instead of staying at the office working?[/b][/quote]

My DH, who is a contractor and works in a fed office, was FORCED to go home.  He had planned to stay at work and wait out the storm.  A senior government manager walked around the room and told everyone to leave.  Because he's a contractor, he had to take PTO since he didn't work his 8 hours.[/quote]

That's pretty silly, then — bad policy on OPM's part and on the part of the contractor. People should be permitted to stay in offices when they close early, and definitely no one should be required to take mandatory PTO when weather forces closures. The employer should just eat those hours; maybe next time they bid on a contract, they should increase the bid a bit to cover similar possible incidents.[/quote]

That’s generally how it works with contractors- you get paid by the hour worked. If you don’t work, you take leave or make up the time later.  [/quote]

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