Everybody’s CDO

The government has a funny thing called CDO – Compressed Day Off. It’s part of a condensed work week, wherein an employee works four 10-hour days and then gets a day off (usually a Friday or a Monday). The use of the term is strange – people will say “I’m on CDO tomorrow” instead of “I’m taking a CDO tomorrow” or something like that. Anyway, I could really tell that a lot of people took today as their CDO. I was supposed to have a job in the morning and then go back to the office, but at 7am the coordinator called me to ask if I could cover at my usual place for the other on-call terp. (:B: and I only work Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and we serve about 15 clients; the other terp on-site works five days a week and serves just one client. The latter is the one I’m replacing right now.) When I arrived at the building around 8:25, the parking lot was as empty as it is at 7:30! (On Thursdays I arrive at 7:30 for an 8am meeting, but on Tuesdays and Wednesdays I don’t get here till 8:30 and I have a longer walk to the building.) Everything has seemed rather quiet around here today, but I’m not really able to do anything productive online because I’m borrowing my co-worker’s LAN access. (I have my own access when I’m at my desk, but this part of the building is on a different network.) So I can’t save anything to disk or use my bookmarks or anything…I’m basically spending the day on Neopets and ODP.