They done done it again.

Another major event that's going to affect the Ops Floor, that Ops Floor workers have received no notification of.

Seems there's going to be a drill downtown (Zone 4, Citywides 1/5/6, have fun). An evacuation drill. We believe it's tentatively scheduled for 07Sep06, but then, how the hell would we know for sure.

Quoth Senator Dick Durbin:

"You know what happens to our kids when they go to school? They have fire drills. They tell kids what you have to do to get out of the building safely — and we’re glad they do this."

Quoth your favourite blogger:

You know what happens to us when we go to work? They don't have a damned thing for us. They don't tell us what to do to get out of the building safely, or what's even going to happen that's going to affect the building/Operations - and we hate that they do this.

Trotter had information that he "told a news conference at the city's 911 emergency center." The 911 emergency center whose own workers knew, as a whole, of no such conference. And guess who's going to be faulted in no uncertain terms and seen as totally incompetent if the slightest bit of detail about the situation is unknown to the dispatcher(s).

At least we're not alone. According to SecondCityCop, "Certain elements of the Department have already stated that the lowly beat guys and gals don't have to be made aware of the plans."

The Chicago Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications. So different, yet so much alike.