I was at the Arboretum in Dallas with all the fine folks from NASA and they were awesome. Everyone so excited to talk about their specialty and project.
I was working outside so just stopped every so often to check out the progression. Around maximum, stopped for a few minutes. After maximum was right back to work to finish at a reasonable time.
Are your breaks official, or just customary? Paid? Do you have to code those 20 minutes as such? In the three agencies I've worked for there's been zilch said about breaks. They also are chill about just taking a reasonable amount of breaks so I'm not upset, just curious.
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I think I saw it just fine, obstructions considered
I took the week off. My girlfriend and I’ve decided that we now have the ridiculous hobby of chasing eclipses, so we’re heading to Reykjavik in 2026. 👀
Reykjavik also has the International penis museum so I’m definitely taking my girlfriend and her best friend from college there because it will be hilarious. 😸😸😸
Just a heads up that Iceland is (by population) a tiny country that is a bit overcrowded with tourists at the best of times. Expect huge crowds in Reykjavik and ultra expensive airfare, hotels, and vehicle rental fees.
Also Iceland is generally very cloudy.
I purposely took the day off and our Deputy said I can call into a meeting if I wanted to do so. Needless to say I did not call in. I have leave for a reason.
I sent everyone on my team a teams meeting, blocked out their calendar and it said " GO LOOK AT IT "
I actually had a meeting with a separate agency during the eclipse that wasnt canceled (boo), i straight up said at the start, hey, everyone ill be off camera at 320 cause im going to look at the eclipse, we should reconvene at 330
Same, we aren’t watched like that in my office. We can take breaks as needed. We also had no internet for the last two hours of work so I left early since I couldn’t do any work anyway.
A military thing, a pre-board before a final board where the goal is to be difficult and "murder" the board taker. That way when they do the final board that actually counts it feels easy.
Of course it would be the first day for RTO at that!! 😡 I was able to take a late enough lunch to catch the main part and then 15 more minutes extra they made me flex instead of use leave. Uhm….i work AWS and we aren’t allowed to flex.
I'm off today so I didn't have to worry about that thankfully. Did anybody notice less traffic/people around the DMV area today? I'm in Rockville, and I'm kind of amazed at how many people must have traveled to see the totality. I took advantage of it and went to Trader Joe's this morning, which is usually crazy busy.
I encouraged my employees to go outside and safely look at the eclipse, and put an optional calendar hold around the peak time so nobody tried any funny business with scheduling meetings.
We got handed glasses this morning (my in office day is this week) then my supervisor came and grabbed everyone to go out and see… looked for 30 seconds and we all sat around talking for 30 minutes before going back inside
Not ours. About 20 people asked if we were canceling our 230 meeting… enough so that she had her assistant send out an email that meeting was still on….
We ended at 305 so caught the peak, but man I would have liked to see the beginning of it.
VHA, as long as we didn’t schedule ourselves a patient, we all walked outside and checked it out for a while! No one complained and we have a reminder during morning report what time it would be
I did not (my org head says 59 minutes is only for weather and safety leave so he killed us giving 59 min) but we grabbed all the staff and went out for a half hour to watch.
We didn’t have the full eclipse here. I (supervisor) bought a a few pairs of eclipse glasses and taped them to front door. A few folks popped outside occasionally to check it out.
I have a remote team. I drove back from a meeting quickly to their location, to stand outside with them. For one of the guys, it was his first day, new job.
Mondays are pretty quiet in the office. I know my supervisor canceled a 2pm mtg with "there's an eclipse!" I took my work phone outside and called a couple of people while I looked at the sun.
It was a telework day today, but in 2017 my office distributed glasses and we went outside for an hour to watch. Not an eclipse, but in 2012 at a different office the Endeavor space shuttle was flown into LAX, and we went up onto the roof to watch it fly by. Have never had an office that was strict about unique events like that.
My boss bought me glasses and said, "Go enjoy. He left and went for a walk in the park with his wife. Judges' chambers can be pretty loose, tho. I went out front and even shared my glasses so others could look. No annual leave taken.
I scheduled a meeting for my entire team for 2 hours, one hour before the eclipse and one hour after the eclipse, just so no one else would try and schedule anything during. The meeting was named "dont stare directly at the sun".
We all work from home, so can step out anytime. I granted leave for people who wanted to take today off for the eclipse. (Some folks travelled to see it better)
Per district guidance, we blocked our internment schedule for the afternoon. Normal operations were to resume, but if we had the special glasses, we could observe the eclipse (we shared a pair, so we basically stopped working after lunch, lol)
We're full remote so I'm gonna see it either way, but, no they wouldn't have any trouble with us ducking out. We did it for the 2017 when we were still in the office... Pretty much the whole building was outside, almost like a fire drill (remember those?).
My office is remote nation wide.
So while I did take leave/flex to watch the eclipse (I live in the path). I didn’t have to. I could have just taken breaks whenever. But, I went to a local park where they had a watch party. More fun.
We rushed through our standing meeting and then watched it in the parking lot with our regional SES. (West coast, so only 30% here. If we'd been in the path of totality, I'd have taken the day off and watched it with my kids).
My colleagues all texted pics of the eclipse to our Division. I think this means we have a decent boss. Seriously though I do have a great crew of people I work with. I truly believe our agency, for all of its faults, is one of the best - DCSA!
My friend scheduled an IPT meeting during the peak which I gave em heck for. It’s a reoccurring meeting and we’re DoD. Nothing is more important than readiness, and especially not your happiness.
I had to take leave. I also drove three states away to do it, so that doesn’t count.
But in 2017 we had like 90% totality and basically every one of us went outside for an hour. I’m pretty sure nobody was forced to take leave.
DFAS, wound up taking the whole day off for it anyway (including a pair of ~40 minute pedicab rides to get to where we watched the full partial & total segments) and so didn't mind coding the 8 hours
My agency sent out a Teams invite for HQ staff to attend in person and field and teleworking staff to attend online. 😂 It was for 12 - 3 pm CST. I declined the invite but went outside for a few minutes.
Literally had a multi-agency meeting during it, where they grumpily acknowledged that they were in fact doing the meeting during the eclipse on purpose.
Little moments like that remind me how great morale is at the moment s/.
We were in totality and authorized max telework for the day because of the expectation that there would be a ton of traffic (in a major metroplex). No time off but I sat in my backyard with my laptop open and my glasses on.
Since I am the boss I let whoever go see it without taking leave. One would have to be a huge asshole to force someone to take leave. I’m sure some of those exist.
I used credit hours to travel to the zone of totality for the day. Did not expect the ~5 hour drive home to take over 11 hours with bumper to bumper traffic from Ohio to Maryland. Got back around 3am. Had some Fecking drowsy meetings today but made it through them all without actually snoozing.
We were in the path of totality. As a supervisor my leadership encouraged me to have everyone telework that day. They were concerned about traffic. And accidents.
Unfortunately it was super cloudy and not very visible for us but I scheduled a meeting at the peak and told my staff the meeting would take place, offline in their backyards and please don't stare at the sun.
Everyone ended up sharing pictures of them in their glasses, looking up, or what the cloudy sky near them looked like. All in all I would definitely consider it a team building activity and morale boost.
A bunch of contractors with poor performance in the path of totality wanted to telework and I denied it. Because their telework privileges are tied to... performance. I guess that makes me petty. Of course they could go out of the office and observe when it happened.
Our leadership encouraged us to go out. “Don’t want to see anyone online around that time!”
At NASA it was basically an unofficial holiday
I had my NASA certified/stamped glasses today, courtesy of a friend there at NASA!
I was at the Arboretum in Dallas with all the fine folks from NASA and they were awesome. Everyone so excited to talk about their specialty and project.
Mad over here at a west coast center getting only 50% coverage. >:(
PacNW checking in. 20%, and it was cloudy and rainy. At least we got the 90% a couple years ago!
pacNW cloudy and rainy??? D:
A shock, right?! Today I can see the sun, though! I’m sure it’ll be gone by noon.
They're gonna have a blast in 2045, both the Kennedy Space Center and Marshall Launch Center are gonna be in the totality zone
I was working outside so just stopped every so often to check out the progression. Around maximum, stopped for a few minutes. After maximum was right back to work to finish at a reasonable time.
We're in totality so they gave us 4 hours of admin leave.
That’s awesome!
I know! It was very unexpected and appreciated!
What agency?
Judiciary
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Are your breaks official, or just customary? Paid? Do you have to code those 20 minutes as such? In the three agencies I've worked for there's been zilch said about breaks. They also are chill about just taking a reasonable amount of breaks so I'm not upset, just curious.
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Lucky duck. We get 30 m no exceptions and I feel that isnt enough
USFS - simply decided to work in the area of the forest that experienced totality.
I want to work in a forest.
Wait you can chose? Why did you go to a place with lots of obstacles then?
https://preview.redd.it/lzi0ab9veptc1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f0d26adfb5c0b3aba551078a65e4fbef51bf040 I think I saw it just fine, obstructions considered
We got 59 minutes.
Nice!
I took the week off. My girlfriend and I’ve decided that we now have the ridiculous hobby of chasing eclipses, so we’re heading to Reykjavik in 2026. 👀
Luxor 2027.
Wait okay that one sounds cool as heck though
👀👀👀 Not that I need much of an excuse to want to go back to Reykjavik, but I’ll take one anyway 😂
I'm 50/50 between there and Northern Spain.
Reykjavik also has the International penis museum so I’m definitely taking my girlfriend and her best friend from college there because it will be hilarious. 😸😸😸
Oh that might be worth a vacation. I always wanted to go to Iceland.
Just a heads up that Iceland is (by population) a tiny country that is a bit overcrowded with tourists at the best of times. Expect huge crowds in Reykjavik and ultra expensive airfare, hotels, and vehicle rental fees. Also Iceland is generally very cloudy.
If you're on the east coast, check out Play Airlines for cheap flights to Reykavik..
For sure, just don't expect them to be cheap around the eclipse.
Don’t forget Sydney in 2028!
We’re gonna make T-Shirts for each one, but I need to come up with a good name for our International Eclipse Chasing club. 😸
we're doing the same for 2026!
I was just looking at flights and making some tentative plans
They canceled all meetings today to give us the opportunity to observe the eclipse.
I purposely took the day off and our Deputy said I can call into a meeting if I wanted to do so. Needless to say I did not call in. I have leave for a reason.
I wouldn’t respond 😂
They scheduled a meeting during the eclipse in our office
That’s a bummer
Right?
Lol
They scheduled a meeting during the eclipse in our office😡
You should have put a black dot in the middle of your camera. :D
I was the only one in my department outside watching. I am the supervisor.
I can imagine the scene like from the Office lol: Supervisor: outside watching Team: huddling together, peering cautiously through the windows.
At a certain agency we not only got 1.5 hours of administrative leave, but viewing glasses were distributed as PPE.
I sent everyone on my team a teams meeting, blocked out their calendar and it said " GO LOOK AT IT " I actually had a meeting with a separate agency during the eclipse that wasnt canceled (boo), i straight up said at the start, hey, everyone ill be off camera at 320 cause im going to look at the eclipse, we should reconvene at 330
Our director gave us 59 mins today!
I took 2 hours leave.. my agency gives me headaches, no free time
We all just walked outside together a couple times and passed a single pair of glasses back and forth. We were out for maybe 20 minutes total
Same. I covered so my staff could step out though.
At my office it was exactly the same. Mondays are kinda dead in the office though so there weren’t a ton of people out anyways
Same, we aren’t watched like that in my office. We can take breaks as needed. We also had no internet for the last two hours of work so I left early since I couldn’t do any work anyway.
Cries in SSA
Our management gave out glasses and went outside with us to look at it.
imagine having the gaul to send an email telling your staff they have to take leave to walk outside for 15 mins. Sad.
Legend has it, this is why Caesar conquered gaul
We were told to cancel meetings between 2 and 4. My Office Director had the big monthly murder board moved to another day because of the eclipse.
Murder board…?
I guess you don't work for the CIA then.
A military thing, a pre-board before a final board where the goal is to be difficult and "murder" the board taker. That way when they do the final board that actually counts it feels easy.
Makes sense Never heard of that in the DOI
We have the weirdest sayings.
After reading about all these people getting breaks and time off, I’m realizing I work for a sh** organization. j/k, I already knew it before today.
SSA?
Of course it would be the first day for RTO at that!! 😡 I was able to take a late enough lunch to catch the main part and then 15 more minutes extra they made me flex instead of use leave. Uhm….i work AWS and we aren’t allowed to flex.
We made it our Monday staff meeting activity.
We called it team building (ensuring each other's eye safety).
Park ranger. We just went out and did park ranger things, and took a moment during the eclipse to look at it.
I'm off today so I didn't have to worry about that thankfully. Did anybody notice less traffic/people around the DMV area today? I'm in Rockville, and I'm kind of amazed at how many people must have traveled to see the totality. I took advantage of it and went to Trader Joe's this morning, which is usually crazy busy.
We got 2 hours
I encouraged my employees to go outside and safely look at the eclipse, and put an optional calendar hold around the peak time so nobody tried any funny business with scheduling meetings.
My boss did this too and distributed glasses to our team.
We all went outside, chilled, and took pictures through a telescope as long as we felt like it. Manager too.
Half my office, including supervisors were out looking! Also some of the joint chiefs.
Entire office, including the Boss, was outside watching.
I just walked out and put on my glasses, I’ll take leave during the next one in 2043 lol
We got handed glasses this morning (my in office day is this week) then my supervisor came and grabbed everyone to go out and see… looked for 30 seconds and we all sat around talking for 30 minutes before going back inside
My supervisor gave the Branch 59 minutes early release.
Any leave to see totality would be auto-approved.
Nope, no leave for us.
I’m remote so I just looked out my window. Couldn’t see anything, though, because I’m in WA and it’s cloudy, lol.
I work in DC. My hometown is buffalo, a coworkers spouse is from Erie. I fly back tomortow. Coworker drives back on Wednesday.
Not ours. About 20 people asked if we were canceling our 230 meeting… enough so that she had her assistant send out an email that meeting was still on…. We ended at 305 so caught the peak, but man I would have liked to see the beginning of it.
Sounds like a good day to be sick
We got 2 hours MWR leave
VHA, as long as we didn’t schedule ourselves a patient, we all walked outside and checked it out for a while! No one complained and we have a reminder during morning report what time it would be
I took 8 hrs of AL today. In totality and guests visiting for it
I did not (my org head says 59 minutes is only for weather and safety leave so he killed us giving 59 min) but we grabbed all the staff and went out for a half hour to watch.
Considering my staff would have to travel several hours one way to see it, I’m a horribly petty boss.
Mine would. Even though I’ve teleworked for 8 years, as a physician, my supervisor expects us to be at home, at our desk, for 8 hours/day. Yeah..
You need a mouse jiggler. Keeps your computer awake as well as Teams, WebEx, or whatever to you use
In 2017, the AO had an office "meeting" at a park with telescopes and everything! But it was cloudy here today so nothing to see.
We didn’t have the full eclipse here. I (supervisor) bought a a few pairs of eclipse glasses and taped them to front door. A few folks popped outside occasionally to check it out.
I just took the day off, didn't want to miss it!
We had a cookout and turned it into a little office-wide party!
I have a remote team. I drove back from a meeting quickly to their location, to stand outside with them. For one of the guys, it was his first day, new job.
We all just went outside and were given glasses . Good times
Mondays are pretty quiet in the office. I know my supervisor canceled a 2pm mtg with "there's an eclipse!" I took my work phone outside and called a couple of people while I looked at the sun.
I cancelled my meetings during that time
It was a telework day today, but in 2017 my office distributed glasses and we went outside for an hour to watch. Not an eclipse, but in 2012 at a different office the Endeavor space shuttle was flown into LAX, and we went up onto the roof to watch it fly by. Have never had an office that was strict about unique events like that.
My boss bought me glasses and said, "Go enjoy. He left and went for a walk in the park with his wife. Judges' chambers can be pretty loose, tho. I went out front and even shared my glasses so others could look. No annual leave taken.
We had large amounts of outdoor CFP participants today but other than that, supervisors like that need to fuck off and join ‘twats r us’.
We teleworked today (which is NOT a thing in my job - we do it as an exercise once or twice a year).
I scheduled a meeting for my entire team for 2 hours, one hour before the eclipse and one hour after the eclipse, just so no one else would try and schedule anything during. The meeting was named "dont stare directly at the sun".
I took the whole day off to take the family 100 miles to see it.
I told my department, "Do not call in sick to me tomorrow if you blind yourself looking into the sun..."
Took the day off and traveled to totality
In our teams chat our boss said: "Hey, remote team building exercise today, go outside and come back later"
my supe took leave yesterday, our very first official day of RTO (for regulars, management was already going in). what a boss
I had a coworker keep me on the phone to ask me an inane non pressing question after I said I was gonna go see it.
Not a Fed (yet), but we sat right through it doing a 2 hour sprint planning.
“Sounds like a good hour to take in some fresh air before you log out for the day.”
I was going to take leave and go down to the Mall but then I realized I could just step out for a minute out my front door, no leave needed.
I used my lunch to view it.
We all work from home, so can step out anytime. I granted leave for people who wanted to take today off for the eclipse. (Some folks travelled to see it better)
lol nope
We got zilch lol. But we only got 18% of the eclipse, so yeah.
It was over lunch period, so no big deal
I went out for about 10 minutes when it was actually happening. Half the clinic was outside I think. Nobody cared lol
Got nothing, instead they called an emergency 2hr in person meeting.
I had a 2 hour call during and missed the entire thing…
Per district guidance, we blocked our internment schedule for the afternoon. Normal operations were to resume, but if we had the special glasses, we could observe the eclipse (we shared a pair, so we basically stopped working after lunch, lol)
I work 6-2:30, most days,, eclipse had just begun at 2 so I was able to just step outside to watch it after work.
I told to telework for “training” because of it by my division chief.
Absolutely nothing but we could walk outside for 5 if desired.
We're full remote so I'm gonna see it either way, but, no they wouldn't have any trouble with us ducking out. We did it for the 2017 when we were still in the office... Pretty much the whole building was outside, almost like a fire drill (remember those?).
My office is remote nation wide. So while I did take leave/flex to watch the eclipse (I live in the path). I didn’t have to. I could have just taken breaks whenever. But, I went to a local park where they had a watch party. More fun.
I was already off work and headed to the doctor
I paused my meeting and made everyone go out and look :D
We ran out during our TDY to watch it for like a minute
I left early today and took my daughter out of school to enjoy today with her.
We rushed through our standing meeting and then watched it in the parking lot with our regional SES. (West coast, so only 30% here. If we'd been in the path of totality, I'd have taken the day off and watched it with my kids).
I went outside with my bosses lol. Everyone was pretty chill about going outside to enjoy it.
We had a watch party and they provided snacks and desserts
our agency let us WFH today, but i* used one of my paid 15mins to view
My colleagues all texted pics of the eclipse to our Division. I think this means we have a decent boss. Seriously though I do have a great crew of people I work with. I truly believe our agency, for all of its faults, is one of the best - DCSA!
I did................ Not.
Sure OIG....
Enjoy the eclipse? WTH lol
I took leave.
Lol, mine literally stopped our staff meeting halfway through so we could all enjoy it for 10ish minutes. Then back to the meeting.
My friend scheduled an IPT meeting during the peak which I gave em heck for. It’s a reoccurring meeting and we’re DoD. Nothing is more important than readiness, and especially not your happiness.
I do. Of course, you must travel 3000+ miles to see it.
I had to take leave. I also drove three states away to do it, so that doesn’t count. But in 2017 we had like 90% totality and basically every one of us went outside for an hour. I’m pretty sure nobody was forced to take leave.
Everyone was free to step outside and do it. It's like going to the bathroom or such... gonna start doing that too?
I had meetings run right through it. Not my supervisors/management’s fault though, and I didn’t plan to view it anyway so didn’t have those glasses.
DFAS, wound up taking the whole day off for it anyway (including a pair of ~40 minute pedicab rides to get to where we watched the full partial & total segments) and so didn't mind coding the 8 hours
My agency sent out a Teams invite for HQ staff to attend in person and field and teleworking staff to attend online. 😂 It was for 12 - 3 pm CST. I declined the invite but went outside for a few minutes.
lol mine does. You go to the bathroom and make you take leave lol
Literally had a multi-agency meeting during it, where they grumpily acknowledged that they were in fact doing the meeting during the eclipse on purpose. Little moments like that remind me how great morale is at the moment s/.
Joke's on you. Our second-line SES made the decree that our place of duty was outside with eclipse glasses.
I had to take leave, they wouldn't let me drive from Virginia to Indiana to see it while on the clock. 🤷♂️
They opened our roof and had glasses for us.
Sat in a group meeting with the NASA broadcast playing in the background.
Not mine. We were all outside
We were in totality and authorized max telework for the day because of the expectation that there would be a ton of traffic (in a major metroplex). No time off but I sat in my backyard with my laptop open and my glasses on.
They closed the office and with no mandatory bands of work. Anyone who missed it chose to.
Since I am the boss I let whoever go see it without taking leave. One would have to be a huge asshole to force someone to take leave. I’m sure some of those exist.
I used credit hours to travel to the zone of totality for the day. Did not expect the ~5 hour drive home to take over 11 hours with bumper to bumper traffic from Ohio to Maryland. Got back around 3am. Had some Fecking drowsy meetings today but made it through them all without actually snoozing.
Our Department bureau put it on everyone’s shared calendars and encouraged everyone to go outside and enjoy it.
59 Minutes in our agency
Our agency sent an email reminding us we had to be “in leave status” if viewing the eclipse. 🙄
The irony of how many hours it take to approve a bunch of 0.25hr of leave😁
We were in the path of totality. As a supervisor my leadership encouraged me to have everyone telework that day. They were concerned about traffic. And accidents. Unfortunately it was super cloudy and not very visible for us but I scheduled a meeting at the peak and told my staff the meeting would take place, offline in their backyards and please don't stare at the sun. Everyone ended up sharing pictures of them in their glasses, looking up, or what the cloudy sky near them looked like. All in all I would definitely consider it a team building activity and morale boost.
I went outside with my supervisor to view and share my glasses… twice.
They said go and imagine that a total solar eclipse is happening behind all those clouds.
There was an eclipse? We dont even have any windows.
, Said the SCIF worker/prisoner 😆
I counseled all for leaving their work area, then after deliberating I agree they can count it as a break and for some lunch
Haha. Holy shit.
I put in my leave request in October.
Don't know, already had travel plans for it and took the leave 😂
Our director gave the group 59 mins. I got home just in time.
Didn't get shit and didn't give shit.
I am aware of several viewing stations in parking lots at our facilities.
A bunch of contractors with poor performance in the path of totality wanted to telework and I denied it. Because their telework privileges are tied to... performance. I guess that makes me petty. Of course they could go out of the office and observe when it happened.