#shutdown — Drewdy (@Drewdy) 30 Sep 13 We really watching the "Countdown to Shutdown" in our Office today because we are the nonessential employees.
The concern is noted even in the Bloomberg administration, where some speak of invisible countdown clocks in every city office, reminding officials of the dwindling time to complete projects.
The mayor already has various countdown clocks all over government offices reminding him and his employees how many days he has left in his second term.
And this does seem to be a golden age of documentaries; my colleague in the office next door was attending a screening of Countdown to Zero, a polemic on nuclear weapons, last night.
In the countdown to Syriza marking 100 days in office, Greece got its first crisis monument.
In many offices, calendars posted in the halls even have a countdown to January 1992 printed in the lower right-hand corner.
For city employees who somehow miss the mayor's ritual time readings, Mr. Bloomberg's staff has helpfully installed large digital countdown clocks in at least 14 government offices.
There was the "countdown calendar" to President Bush's last day in office, sitting openly on a soldier's desk.
In interviews, Mr. Obama's aides wistfully recalled when the office had just opened, a vast, mostly empty space with a countdown of the days scrawled in Magic Marker — then well into the hundreds.
The office zombie song "Re: Your Brains" made the Dr. Demento Funny 25 countdown for 2006.
