Avoiding the riots and the strikes
Oct. 19th, 2011 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI'm okay.
Just wanted to get that out of the way. I don't know what the international press has been reporting about the latest round of protests and strikes and riots and whatnot, but my apartment is less than one mile from Syntagma Square, ground zero, and the only sign of civil unrest I saw was helicopters in the sky and garbage overflowing dumpsters on the street.
If I'd been at the office, it might have been a wildly different story, but yesterday afternoon the word went out from the Senior Partners: don't come to the office. Work from home if you can, go to off-site meetings if you must, but don't approach the protest zone.
So I did. It was also a good excuse to bundle up and shake off the cold bug that hit me over the weekend.
Work came in via e-mail, and got taken care of and sent back out. Our clients don't stop needing our services just because the country's gone straight round the bend, after all.
That was the underlying message in the email that came at about 9:30 this evening, too. Tomorrow, same deal: work from home. This isn't a vacation, this is us trying to serve our clients without getting the entire office staff from the Senior Partners down to the secretaries and couriers choking because the cops run out of patience with the firebombs and lay down a saturation strike with the tear gas.
Amazing what a person can adjust to, huh?
Then again, from what I hear from back home, things are getting tense down by Wall Street, too. Although the 99%'ers don't seem to be using firebombs or breaking stones off the Brooklyn Bridge or City Hall to throw at the NYPD.
Then again, the NYPD has been behaving worse than the Athens riot cops from what I've seen.
Oh, yeah.
Hopeful sign: the garbage haulers were moving around the Kolonaki neighborhood tonight when I went out to grab a bite, emptying the dumpsters into a garbage truck.
They were using shovels.
Just wanted to get that out of the way. I don't know what the international press has been reporting about the latest round of protests and strikes and riots and whatnot, but my apartment is less than one mile from Syntagma Square, ground zero, and the only sign of civil unrest I saw was helicopters in the sky and garbage overflowing dumpsters on the street.
If I'd been at the office, it might have been a wildly different story, but yesterday afternoon the word went out from the Senior Partners: don't come to the office. Work from home if you can, go to off-site meetings if you must, but don't approach the protest zone.
So I did. It was also a good excuse to bundle up and shake off the cold bug that hit me over the weekend.
Work came in via e-mail, and got taken care of and sent back out. Our clients don't stop needing our services just because the country's gone straight round the bend, after all.
That was the underlying message in the email that came at about 9:30 this evening, too. Tomorrow, same deal: work from home. This isn't a vacation, this is us trying to serve our clients without getting the entire office staff from the Senior Partners down to the secretaries and couriers choking because the cops run out of patience with the firebombs and lay down a saturation strike with the tear gas.
Amazing what a person can adjust to, huh?
Then again, from what I hear from back home, things are getting tense down by Wall Street, too. Although the 99%'ers don't seem to be using firebombs or breaking stones off the Brooklyn Bridge or City Hall to throw at the NYPD.
Then again, the NYPD has been behaving worse than the Athens riot cops from what I've seen.
Oh, yeah.
Hopeful sign: the garbage haulers were moving around the Kolonaki neighborhood tonight when I went out to grab a bite, emptying the dumpsters into a garbage truck.
They were using shovels.
