City Worker Forgot None Of His Fellow Drones Come Into Work This Week

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

A member of our town’s laptop worker class was forced to confront his own irrelevance this Tuesday morning after arriving at work to discover he was the only person on-site during this gooch week between two great national holidays.

Gus Grady, a mid-level marketing coordinator at a mid-level French Quarter consultancy, made the 6:41am Betoota Metro service from Betoota Heights expecting a normal workday. Instead, he found himself alone in an empty office tower, part of a broader trend of younger white-collar workers avoiding the workplace in general.

Reality set it at around 7:45am, when Grady used his security swipe to access Level 4 of the McMahon & Price Building above Priceline on Rue de Putain. Upon entry, he observed no lights on, no staff present and the warm welcoming slap of dank, unairconditioned air.

“I just assumed people would be back by now,” said Grady, who also noted the train into the CBD was pretty empty and that the station café was closed.

“I thought it just quiet because of the Pope or whatever.”

What’s happening, according to multiple sources in the French Quarter, is that most staff are either remote working from coastal towns or have strategically taken leave to extend the back-to-back public holidays into a 10-day break.

The company confirmed Grady was the only employee to badge in. He has since returned home. The office will remain effectively closed until April 29.

More to come.