Forget about getting the whole week off, federal employees. Federal agencies will open Friday after four days off for a couple of blizzards.
So if you were planning to attend another "let's get plowed" party Thursday night, we hope you planned, instead, for your Friday commute.
Feds don't have to get up extra early to brave the wintry conditions and extended commutes. Federal employees can plan to get to work no more than two hours later than scheduled. Any later, and the time will be charged as annual leave or leave without pay.
So if you take Metro to work, leave when you usually would and you should make it on time.
If you still haven't seen a plow in your neighborhood and just can't make it to work, unscheduled leave will be permitted.
Emergency employees and telecommuters will again be expected to start on time.
Non-emergency and non-telework federal employees got Monday and Tuesday off as the D.C. region tried to dig out from a weekend snowstorm. Another snowstorm gave them Wednesday and Thursday off.
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Meanwhile, D.C. Public Schools are closed, but teachers and administrators were asked to report. Why? Because it is a professional development day, and Chancellor Michelle Rhee thinks that's important. She said the following in a letter to teachers on Thursday:
"One of the key messages I hear from teachers at the listening sessions I do at schools across the city is that we need to do more to support you in our work. The district-wide professional development days are a key opportunity to do exactly that. Because we have such a limited number of these days, and because the worst of the weather has passed, I have decided to move forward with the scheduled activities tomorrow.
"Though the roads may be challenging tomorrow morning, we have been advised that Metro will be fully operational. If you simply cannot make the trip in, please inform your principal right away."
Teachers were asked to inform their principals if they couldn't make it in because of bad road conditions.
