So, how did your place of work handle the Inauguration?

[hedgehog]

Since I work from home, work was called off so i could watch every minute (although I did have to keep the sound down during my husband's conference call)

My son said everyone was watching on line until they crashed the internet. Then they went to the nearby house of one of the employees to continue watching.

[mucifer]

1. I stayed home today. But, our non profit hospice our boss encouraged us to

take time to watch it and if people were in the office they were playing it on tv in the conference room.

[stray cat]

2. Playing in the auditoriums for people to watch as they had a break from work

They said there was not enough band space for all of us to live stream it in our offices. Others had it playing on their radio by their desks.

[Colobo]

3. USF had TVs in most buildings so that students and faculty could watch.

[AnnieBW]

4. We had it on in our auditorium, and we also watched it in my office

on the office TV. We were trying to spot our co-worker who was somewhere in the crowd.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Every news website was blocked.

Normally, I can get to newspaper sites to read articles, but not today. Streaming is verboten anyway, but I guess the company decided not to allow anyone to be tempted.

Some locations of my company have televisions in break rooms, and the inauguration was on there. My office has no TV. It was Tuesday for us.

[NoSheep]

20. Wow -Where do you work?

[GOPisEvil]

25. Large national insurance company.

If I don't sound upset, I'm not. Sure it would have been nice to watch, but they pay me to work. I could have taken the day off if I wanted.

[NoSheep]

28. That's a good attitude. Just curious if perhaps they were particularly upset with

the new administration for some reason. I'm glad you feel okay about it and didn't have a bad day! My boss had asked if we could have a TV and I reminded her we don't have cable or an antenna! Our TV's are all just monitors for viewing video and power point.

I've wanted to congratulate someone today on their new president. I'll make that you. Congratulations. I'm sure you deserve it.:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

34. Well, I'm sure the powers that be are Republicans, but we have thousands....

...of employees. Plus a great deal of our work is web-based, so streaming could have adversely affected us getting our jobs done.

Thanks for the congratulations. Congratulations to you, too! :hi:

[NoSheep]

36. Thank you! I'm very very happy.

:7

[treestar]

30. Reminds me of a company I once worked for

We could get out of jury duty because they would not pay us for day we served.

They were an insurance company. No doubt they whined about jury verdicts!

[GOPisEvil]

31. Well, my company isn't THAT bad.

We do get paid for jury duty.

[onehandle]

6. Nearly thirty people, all Obama fans. I'm the boss and told them to keep the TV running all day.

I took the day off and stayed home to watch with my wife.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Everyone was in mourning

I chose to not get fired, so I didn't watch it online.

[Xipe Totec]

8. The CEO placed live video feeds in all the meeting rooms

and told employees to break from work at 11:30 to watch the inauguration.

Really cool and hip guy.

[michaz]

9. I am a secretary at a Catholic Church. Father came in about 11:30 and

said, "C'mon, lets go into the sitting room and watch history being made. We don't want to miss this." So we sat till 1:00 watching tv and then I went to lunch. This is one great priest!

[Starry Messenger]

10. They showed a taped version of Barack's speech in the auditorium.

It was nice. I work in a high school and the kids were super excited. Every time the camera panned to Bush they booed. I love the young! :D A student who won a MLK poetry contest for the area recited her poem.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Tuesday is a slow day

without office hours for the doctor--so we could do what we wanted, sort of. There is no TV, and no sound cards on the computers. So I brought a radio and we watched the streaming video on yahoo. It was strange because video and audio weren't in sync. Funny thing was that for about an hour around the time of inauguration, we didn't have anyone call or drop in.

[Kaylee]

12. I am in DC so we were closed.

[moc]

13. I worked at home. However, my university broadcast it in numerous places around campus.

In my particular department, it was broadcast across our webcast monitor, and the employees in the office were going to have a potluck and watch the inauguration.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Tried to watch online.

But apparently everybody else was trying to watch online, too, because about 15 minutes before Obama's address we all got an email from the IT department asking us to please stop watching streaming videos because we were totally clogging the network and slowing down actual work stuff. So I listened to the address on my iPhone using an app that accesses a local public radio station. There were also people watching tv in a conference room.

[housewolf]

15. My workplace blocked access to all the news channels!

Google News, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo News... a screen came up saying that the site was blocked for network safety issues due to the inauguration!

Can you believve that????? I was bummed... on a news blackout all day long!

[democrattotheend]

53. That sux!

You should have taken lunch and gone to a cafe or bar to watch.

[demo dutch]

16. I brought Champagne which we cracked open after the speech, everyone brought goodies to eat

and we celebrated with each other incl 4 first time voters who voted Barack into office

[Still Sensible]

17. Since I'm the boss in my office, the TV was on

never a question really.

My wife is a teacher and her principal made an announcement this morning informing that teachers could turn on all the TVs so students could watch history. He couldn't resist starting the announcement with "Yes You Can!"... and he's a conservative republican in Oklahoma.

[NoSheep]

22. Good for him!!

[Marrah_G]

18. My boss watched it in his office, I watched it in mine

We all cried.

I have a very cool boss. He went door to door in NH on Nov 4th for Obama.

[GrizzlyMan]

32. God I wonder what that must be like

My bosses are complete assholes.

[Marrah_G]

38. I work for a small insurarance brokerage

People always assume those guys are conservatives, but the Brokerage's owner (and my immediate boss)Is one of the coolest, most liberal people I know.

[NoSheep]

19. It snowed here! We all stayed home!!!

[tnlurker]

21. My work

Told everybody to not stream from the internet but to watch on our private network instead(they channeled CSPAN). Most offices have tvs with the network available. However, I was stuck in a meeting that I could not get out of had could not watch it live.

[AndrewP]

23. I had to work, but they let me stream msnbc on my computer

They were cool about me taking an hour to watch the main ceremony. No complaints.

[w8liftinglady]

24. they asked us to not live stream-urgent email sent

[ZombieHorde]

26. I have not worked in a year. I watched it at home. nt

[rainbow4321]

27. The secretaries at the front desk watched it livestream on their computers

which meant the patients in the waiting room got to hear him take office so that was kind of cool. Especially since we don't have a real TV in the waiting room just a loop of health related commercials.
I made sure that any patients that needed injections came back into the room where our TV is located and we all watched it together as I gave them their shots, we all applauded right after he finished getting sworn in...a patient and I high fived :-)
Our TV in that room sucks 99% of the time but it had really good reception right as VP Biden and President Obama got sworn in (well, compared to what we normally get--we didn't have to keep a hand on the rabbit ear antenna for a change!
I know several who went back to the break room to watch the TV there.

[SeattleGirl]

29. Boss encouraged me to stay home as long as I wanted. She was

Doing the same.

Finally went in at 2:30 (pacific); she had just come in shortly before me. We were both so excited, talking a mile a minute about the events of the morning.

[BeyondGeography]

33. My wife's co. invited everyone to watch in the conference room from 11 to 1

Damn good of them.

I work from home; no problems there either.

[BlooInBloo]

35. They let us watch it in the cafeteria on the brazillion-inch bigscreen for an hour....

about 9:30-10:30 PST.

I ended up not taking them up on it; I just stayed home and watched it. I can remote in to work though, so it actually was a net gain in productivity, compared to the company's expectation.

But my company is actually incredibly cool to its employees. We had a snowstorm for about a week, and the office was mostly closed. The board quickly agreed to pay the hourlies for the time missed. That was right before Christmas - I thought it was an incredibly compassionate gesture.

[Brooklyns_Finest]

37. I took the Morning off

But I work for one of SSA's regional offices and when I got to work this afternoon I found out that they played the events in our auditorium. I kind of regret taking a half of day of leave, but oh well.

We were pissed that the new pictures of Obama and Biden had not arrived yet. Thankfully, the pictures of Bush and Cheney were gone.

[dana_b]

39. they ignored it

I recorded it and watched it when I got home.

[Born_A_Truman]

40. I work at home...

but instead of being on my pc I used my laptop today in the living room with the big tv. Set the DVR and then realized that it only recorded the first hour. Luckily I could hit record and it picked up the prior part of the hour and I got the swearing in and speech recorded.

Hubby is a HS math teacher and he let his class watch it during that period.

[Phoonzang]

41. I took the day off. If I had it, I would have streamed it online.

I could pretty much commit murder at work and have no one find out, so it would have been ok.

[blueblitzkrieg]

42. We watched it in the conference room.

Everyone clapped after Obama took the oath. It was really nice!! I was worried I wouldn't get to see it happen live because the connection on my computer was awful (stopping and starting every 2 seconds, probably because everyone else in the office was trying to watch it too).

[davidpdx]

43. On 6 weeks vacation

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:



WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:



WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Dukkha]

44. about 100 people cheered loudly in the cafeteria!

It was something to see

[Catherine Vincent]

45. Most people were watching it from their computers.

Everyone was in good spirits. Except one incident, which I could be mistaken but I doubt it. One of the co-workers got a call on her cell and I heard her tell the person on the other line "well you will have to watch it because I'm not watching that crap". I know she was talking about the inauguration. It didn't bother me because I figure she was a big Bush supporter.

[Okie4Obama]

46. Watched it at the auditorium of my university.

Every classroom had it on, too. Almost missed picking up my daughter from pre-K!

[PylesMalfunction]

47. Luckily

as scary as it can be at times because of the economy, my husband and I own our own internet business. Today we had to check in at times but we let it go during the inaugeration. What a blessed day. :)

[FlaGranny]

48. I work in the small office of a homeower's association

with one other lady. We got the old portable out of the closet and watched. The office was very busy all morning, but NO ONE came into the office after about 11:30. Guess everyone was watching at home so we got to watch with no interruptions.

[democrattotheend]

49. Mine was closed, by order of Secret Service

My office was along the parade route, so they closed it. They would not even let me in this morning when I wanted to stop off to get coffee.

[ddeclue]

50. Since I'm unemployed right now I'd have to say "just fine"...

:( :rofl: :( :rofl:

[TeamJordan23]

51. glad to see you have a good sense of humor about it. good luck with the job search. nm

[ddeclue]

52. I've been throught this enough times before that I've grown accustomed...

especially in 1994, 2002 and this 2008-2009.

[trashcanistanista]

54. I stayed home and made a rethug

cover my shift.

[Iggo]

55. Five of us watched it on TV in the break room.

My brother and I, the CFO of our company, and the two women who work in accounts payable.

The other 40 seemed to not even notice anything was going on.

[alwysdrunk]

56. All of us Americans watched it on the big screen in the board room

I work in London. All us yanks watched the whole thing on the plasma. We had to do with BBC commentary though, which was horrible.

[trusty elf]

57. I'm playing at the Zurich Opera this month.

Yesterday we had a performance. When I arrived at the theater I went straight to the cafeteria where everyone was watching the inauguration!

I walked in just as Obama was being sworn in. Glad I didn't miss it!

[radfringe]

58. we got an e-mail

telling us to get off the internet for "non-work" related use

[Madam Mossfern]

59. We all got a memo at around 10:00AM

that there were TVs set up in several locations in the building. We were invited to watch 'at our convenience' between 12:00 and 2:00. The rooms were filling up at 11:30. There was cheering and crying. It was very moving. I'm in a Welfare to Work office and all the waiting rooms had TVs too so the clients could watch. Yes, there were a couple of people who stayed in their offices or cubes. Somehow I can't understand that.

I hope that Obama does a major overhaul of the Welfare program. It's badly broken and needs fixing badly.

[marigold20]

60. Evil HR Mgr came in and took the TV & stand!

Just as Obama was about to take the oath, she waltzed in and said "I need the TV for training, bye". As she unplugged the TV, she noticed the stunned silence in the room - she said, "why is there some crisis situation you're watching?"

[mnhtnbb]

61. Snow day--work cancelled--for hubby. We watched together at home.

[mtnsnake]

62. Self employed, so I laid myself off all of yesterday

Which means I'll have to make up for it later this week, but damn, it's hard to get back to work after such a glorious day yesterday.