it will be an interesting week

[mellowtigger]

I'm off work for my "weekend" now. I am, however, on-call for potential overtime during the next 6 days, because I volunteered my name on the list.

I didn't watch either livestream, because it was busy at work this evening. As I type this message, the Board of Trustees already issued their vote on the closure of several university campuses in Pennsylvania. The President of the university also ended a livestream discussion about these profound changes. There is a special phone queue setup for handling calls about this issue. Who attends that campus closure line? Why, it's IT Support, of course, you silly goose.

If it gets too busy for regular staffing levels, they'll call in people to help out. I've turned on the ringer on my smart phone, so I can respond if I'm called to report for duty.

I hope it's dull. I hope there's no increase. It's rational that they're trying to be prepared. I'm just not in the mood to get yelled at, even though all of us are always (not just for this event) empowered to immediately hang up on anybody who is verbally abusive, which is a wonderful policy that I appreciate immensely.

Here is the roadmap for the closures. The data is solidly behind these closures. They did a good job on the recommendations here (PDF file, 15.8MB, 143 pages). I hope all of this phone preparation is completely unnecessary. I don't want to get called in for overtime.