Sadly sensible
Nov. 16th, 2011 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularTomorrow is Polytechnio Day in Greece. It's not an official bank holiday, but it marks the student protest against the military junta of the late Sixties and early Seventies. Given that the date commemorates a protest, it's likely to be marked by protests.
And given the nature of protests these days in Greece, being in an office building two blocks from Parliament is not a very good place to be.
The Senior Partners have, therefore, called tomorrow a "work-from-home" day, realizing that if the protests do go wahoonie-shaped, a bunch of people in business attire could find themselves in a ... dicey ... situation.
So I'll be cranking away at tasks from the home computer tomorrow, it appears. Theoretically safe and sound, most of a mile away from the protest zone.
Except ... the Polytechnio Day protests traditionally end with a march from Parliament to the American Embassy (the US supported the junta; not America's finest hour by any means). The Embassy is only about two blocks from my apartment.
I'll go out on a limb and assume that any protests will be less violent than the incident a few years back when someone decided that the proper method of protest against the United States involved a rocket-propelled grenade. But I still plan to be cautious tomorrow.
And given the nature of protests these days in Greece, being in an office building two blocks from Parliament is not a very good place to be.
The Senior Partners have, therefore, called tomorrow a "work-from-home" day, realizing that if the protests do go wahoonie-shaped, a bunch of people in business attire could find themselves in a ... dicey ... situation.
So I'll be cranking away at tasks from the home computer tomorrow, it appears. Theoretically safe and sound, most of a mile away from the protest zone.
Except ... the Polytechnio Day protests traditionally end with a march from Parliament to the American Embassy (the US supported the junta; not America's finest hour by any means). The Embassy is only about two blocks from my apartment.
I'll go out on a limb and assume that any protests will be less violent than the incident a few years back when someone decided that the proper method of protest against the United States involved a rocket-propelled grenade. But I still plan to be cautious tomorrow.
