Last shutdown I was, by some horrible mistake, deemed essential and worked the 28 days only to have my sitting-at-home-on-their-butts brethren get paid also. I didn't begrudge them the pay, I knew they had bills and it certainly wasn't their fault. I did begrudge them the sitting on their butts thing though. Let me tell you what I do so you can decide if I am essential.
Absolutely nothing.
And to make it worse, I require an army of people to help me do even that. I work from home which requires a lot of technology; a blackberry, a laptop, a secure token to generate a password, an aircard, etc. On any given day, I am lucky if I have one of the those things available. The technology doesn't fail. I do. I lose things, I break things, I drop things in toilets, I forget things. Go in any airport bathroom after I have been there and you will find a treasure trove of my things; my badge, my credentials, my purse, my coat. I have broken records for password resets.
My office has written SOPs to deal with such incidents. When I left my token and government issued blackberry last week they were ready. One was assigned token duty each day, carrying their phone and my token everywhere so I could call and get my password, several times each day. Another picked the phone and token up at the office and rode the train home. I met him at the station in a trenchcoat with a briefcase full of cash. I am back in business and just in time.
I am essential again.
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