Because that's sensible

In the time that we've worked at Tartarus, and especially in the time that we've been blogging, we've heard a lot of ridiculous things from our coworkers. What happened today may just be the dumbest of the dumb.

Like a lot of places, we've been getting a considerable amount of snow lately. Today they were predicting a rather nasty storm. Speck, who was scheduled to work a later shift, received this phone call about mid-morning.

We should be glad they made an actual phone call.

Co-worker: Speck, we need you to call in to Tartarus before you leave your house today.
Speck: Huh?
Co-worker: I'm calling you to tell you to call us before you come in. We'll tell you then whether you should come in or not. We might close early.
Speck: Are you kidding me? I have to call you? Why don't you just call me if you're going to close?
Co-worker: No, we need you to call here.

Now, Speck has a pretty short commute, so while it was idiotic it wasn't a big deal. Some of the others we work with have a bit of a drive. Spacey called as instructed right before leaving for Tartarus only to be told they didn't know yet and to wait ten minutes and call back, guaranteeing that Spacey would be at least fifteen minutes late for work.

As if that all weren't stupid enough, listen to what happened later. Spoof called Speck at the appointed time to say "don't come in."
"So, when are you closing," asked Speck.
"No, idea," said Spoof. "The Hutt won't tell us."

Did that really just happen?