CANCELED: Way too far ahead

Nothing gets me a little wound up like when people start canceling things way to prematurely, and screw up an entire evening. Well, I guess my evening wasn't screwed up, I got to spend time with friends and play some games, but I'm used to hitting the hardwood, and they canceled our games tonight by 11am. I wasn't happy when at 2:30, you could see for miles. We don't start until 6:30 at the earliest, so why in the world just jump the gun. Its not like a team had to make a 4 hour trip to play in our league tonight. Didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I did get a good trick in though. Our office sends notices out to other companies when we have bad weather, to tell them we have limited staff in the office to support the software, but we'll handle their problems as quickly as possible. It's a courtesy notice that if we're appearing slow, it's because we aren't staffed fully due to weather. Anyhow, this is due to the fact that I think about 90% of the support people for our software live in Mitchell. Anyhow, our department it not all in Mitchell, our "Team Leader" (Eric and Jess, that's for you!) is out in the Black Hills, and the rest of our group is in Montana. So, there was a notice sent out today that our Mitchell office was expirience very bad weather and was dismissing some of our employees. Our supervisor sent a note to us wondering if we had to leave. He didn't know we all three lived here in town, so travel wasn't an options, but two of us had fun with it anyway. Here are the contents of these emails (paraphrased because all our company email is confidential or something like that)

Dear "Team Leader," we are not wusses, we will all stay. - Carl

Dear "Team Leader," Speak for yourself Carl! I'm really concerned, and the weather here is bad. I'm going to have to go home to make sure my snowblower starts - Jeff

Dear "Team Leader," the reports here in Mitchell are bad on the west side of town (where our office is). The word is that they are going to suspend all snow removal on the east side of main street, where my house is, because the roads keep filling up with snow. They are going to stop travel at noon today on the east part, so I need to leave. - Tyler

Needless to say, Carl was not popular. After I sent mine, our "Team Leader" called me to make sure I wasn't serious. It was kind of funny, but I guess our "Team Leader" was looking out for us and doing his job, which does make us appreciative. (Eric and Jess, my "Team Leader" count was 7! I'll try to do better next time.)