The fate of Friday, March 13th 2020

Hello everyone.

What an adventure!

Bit of backstory. I've been a clerk in an office for about 5 years. Our office currently has 4 clerks, about 14 case workers and 5 members of management.

Historically, our office had 5 clerks. 
Mrs. KK was the boss and retired last May.  Super lady. 
Mrs. JH promoted to the boss position. She's also good people. 
Mrs. KW was a bitter person who loved to point out the failings of everyone but like all bullies hated to have her failings revealed.  She "retired" about two years ago and was never replaced.  We all agreed that we did not have enough work for a team of five.
My "partner in crime" and Halloween compatriot, Ms. ML found a different job a couple years ago. Ms. CH replaced her. 
A year ago, ML was laid off from her new job.  She came back to our office for a few months but she wasn't happy and left in November. 
Mr. TV replaced her.

At 8:00, I arrived at work this morning to find that our office's telephones and computer network are down.  Of course being 2020, we have no real capability of doing work in our office with no computers.  It's Friday, the office is already staffed a bit light. 

The management team instructs us to use pen and paper to get our customers checked in and the rest of the staff will do as much as possible. 

I take my break at my usual 9:15 and after my coffee, come back to find one of my two direct co-workers, Mr. TV, had gathered his belongings and looks ready to head home.  My other co-worker  Ms. CH, said TV had offered his resignation.  He is called into the manager's office, the door's closed, minutes later he walks out the door without saying a word and proceeds to leave.

Mr. TV had transferred from another location and before that another location and before that yet another location.  Our office has suffered with Mr. TV for about 3 years. He's filed grievances with management throughout the course of his tenure in our office.  He moved from the back office and a case worker position down to the front office into a clerical slot back in December.  We all know his quirks and how his personality traits are and had been advised to accommodate him as well as possible.  We worked with him, trained him and there were good moments but apparently there was some sort of transgression which cost him his job.

Back to the first part of the story, our phones and computers were down for seven hours.  We were advised at 3:00 to reboot our PCs and everything was functional.  Between additional customers coming and in two of us trying to get 7 hours of work processed, we barely made a dent in the pile.

Monday is going to be wicked busy especially since we've lost a member of the team.

We had a full moon and Friday the thirteenth in the same week, was that a sign?