FCC Open Today: Area Applications

[Robert S Chase]

Regarding the post quoted below, I wonder if the FCC has a telecommute 
program. That would explain the approvals on a day when everybody else was 
snowed under. One of the good things about telecommuting is that you can 
earn money when everybody else is up to their eyeballs in snow. I would 
suggest that booth announcing and anything else that doesn't need a personal 
appearance could be done that way in this age of communications and virtual 
presence. If one can have a virtual office, why not a virtual studio?

However, after I wrote the above, I researched the issue and discovered that 
the real reason was that federal agencies were open on Friday although 
openings were delayed a couple of hours.

>From the OPM website at http://www.opm.gov/ :

Feb 12, 2010
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are OPEN under a DELAYED 
ARRIVAL\UNSCHEDULED LEAVE policy. Employees should plan to arrive for work 
no more than 2 hours later than they would normally arrive.

Feb 11, 2010
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are CLOSED.

Feb 10, 2010
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are CLOSED.

> From: lglavin@mail.com
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> Subject: FCC Open Today: Area Applications
>
> I guess some Federal employees in DC were sufficiently able to dig 
> themselves out to appear at
> work because the fcc.gov website is displaying applications and actions 
> today (Friday;  they'll be
> off Monday on a scheduled holiday). ...