Can't anybody around here do basic math? Update!

Short answer? No. Hot on the heels of our hours window being cut for Fridays, we got this bombshell this afternoon:

Good evening,
We understand there is a freezing rain advisory for the DC area tonight. Should the federal government announce a two hour delay tomorrow (Wednesday 2/5/14), A&P will also be on a delay and your project will open at 11:00am (no earlier!). You do not need to report late arrivals this morning, but if you expect to be absent please let us know. Thank you and travel safely in the morning!

This obviously is a reaction to the 2-hour delay announced by the feds a couple weeks ago, when a number of us came in at 7 am anyway. The delay is not mandatory, after all, under fed policy or under firm policy. It's an excuse to be late, not a mandate to be late. So the agency, apparently at the behest of the firm, make it a mandate.

Well, since our project opens at 7 am, somebody did the math and hit "reply all" to send the following:

Um, that's a four-hour delay. 

That quickly prompted another email from the agency, also at the behest of the firm, that since the firm doesn't officially open until 9 am, that is a 2-hour delay, thank you very much, so shut the fuck up. I like to think of it as Orwellian math: you only think that 11 am is 4 hours later than 7 am. Silly temp.

Update: Yes, this "reply all" was sent by the same guy who sent the classic "reply all" to the announcement just before Christmas that there would be no more paid holidays for temps as this agency. He knows no fear, or has a trust fund and doesn't worry about getting fired. Not sure which.