@misslovelymess As a public employee in California, we are all "disaster service workers". I was acting as such for two years during Covid. But hell yeah, I was paid.
@elbutterfield @misslovelymess
Of course, here "disaster" always implied The Big One. Not, you know, a plague.
@LiberalLibrarian @misslovelymess
(nods) (grimaces)
@LiberalLibrarian I worked with a team in Florida, and you couldn’t even say the word hurricane because what they experienced was so traumatic. They served one population, and were sent willy nilly to serve different populations. There was no structured plan for disaster response. It sounded awful.
@LiberalLibrarian @misslovelymess
I guess that's true. I remember staff meetings at school where we were reminded that we would be expected to stay with the kids and not go home to our own children. It worked out for the most part because we knew our own kids were with their teachers.