Tom Burka on the latest terror threat:
Citicorp employees collectively railed against the fact that the Bush Administration yesterday announced an “orange alert” for a threat to their building which, it turns out, was based upon documents that were three or four years old. Employees were angry because, they said, they should have been given the four years off while higher-ups “worked to counter the threat.”
“Do you know what I could have done with that time?’ said Sally Ackerman, who works in Accounts Receivable.
“Dude,” said Larry Hammerman, a 28-year-old filing clerk, “I coulda probably finished, like, playing the entire PlayStation 2 catalogue.”
Citicorp has a little known policy that employees may take “emergency leave” during a bomb threat. “And the way I see it is, this is like a bomb threat that has been goin’ on for like four damn years,” said Hammerman.
NewMexiKen prays these threats continue their role as straight lines.
NewMexiKen also remembers working at a couple of places that received serious bomb threats. It’s no fun when it’s serious, though on a nice day we did occasionally remark that the threatening call had come in over the internal phone lines.