Now, I could, of course, work from home this morning, but it's still pretty well guaranteed to be a less productive day than I would normally have had. It's crazy -- I wonder if we'll send an email to all our customers regarding our unexpected unattended office this morning. If we did, I think it should be something like this.
Dear Customers,
We don't normally slack off on taking your phone calls on Monday mornings, but today we have a good reason. There were a bunch of dead birds found on the street near our office, and EMS shut down the area for the whole morning. Most likely there is no toxin in the air and this was a prank, but in our ultra-terrorist-sensitive society, we have to be excessively cautious -- shutting down businesses for hours just in case. Hopefully, there won't be any dead squirrels tomorrow.
We'll be back in the office when the paranoia lifts. Thanks for your patience.
I'm sure there'll be no backlash from that. Right?
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didn't know you worked downtown. we should get together for lunch sometime. not that I work downtown, or work for that matter, but you know, I'm in the area.
My wife got to stay home today also. Weird thing is, when I used to work at the IBM plant, sometimes we'd notice lots of dead birds lying around. Of course, this was before 9-11...
James, I think that's the part that makes me feel like fear is at work way too much in our country now. Birds die in big groups all the time, and it's almost always some kind of local poisoning if it's not the weather, but now with our over-abundance of caution since 9/11, it seems to be perfectly acceptable to lose a whole lotta man-days of productivity in downtown Austin, "just in case." I don't want my days to be ruled by fear.
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