Well there was no strike and no moving to Puerto Rico. Here I am. Not that I would have minded a day off but I might as well save my last vacation day for something special, besides I am expecting a package at my office so I want to be here when it arrives. Apparently my firm really wants us all to come to work. We received about 15 emails in the last two days describing in incredible detail the firm's contingency plan. Clearly there was no way that they would be like "don't worry about it, stay home" so they gave us transportation alternatives. So if you don't show up for work it is because you are lazy.
If there were to be a strike at some point they would have yellow school buses picking people up on various street corners throughout the city. I was explaining to Nate yesterday that my firm's contingency plan would requiring me to walk 12 blocks and wait on some street corner for a bus to come. Of course due to the anticipated heavy traffic they can't say when exactly the bus would arrive. Sometime between 8:00am and whenever. And even if I did make it to the bus at the correct time my stop is the last stop, so I would be standing all the way to Manhattan. This is when Nate pointed out that I stand all the way to work most days anyway. This is when I told Nate to shut-up. Anywoo thank goodness none of that happened. And hopefully they will just give them what they want so we don't have to worry about it again. The greatest inconvenience would be that even if I were able to stand the 12 block walk to the school bus, no one from the mailroom would be able to make it in (they aren't allowed to ride the buses). That would mean every piece of interoffice mail that I wanted to send to the other floors I would probably have to walk down myself. Uh...I don't think so.
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