Tunnels

You are not going to believe this. There are tunnels underneath the building.

Tunnels.

We were told about them yesterday, as part of the briefing Jennings held separately for each department. Yes, we are expanding, as a result of new threats that have arisen and the need for our parent organization to handle more things "off the books". There will be anywhere between 10 and 15 new field agents joining us within the month, and around 30 support staffers. Naturally, the question was asked, "Where are we going to put all of these people?" The office doesn't have nearly enough space to hold the new people... there are only 3 or 4 empty offices and they are being used as temp conference rooms. But Jennings just calmly mentions that the teams will be reorganized and some will be using the office across the parking lot.

Arrington, who has recently stepped up his already impressive whining efforts, immediately starts a diatribe about how it's hard enough to work with people on the other side of the building, but it's impossible to work with people in another building altogether. Phone calls and e-mails, while secure, are not the best way to communicate, he says. And walking from building to building is an unacceptable security risk. Note that I'm in agreement with everything he's saying... I just would have stated it differently, if at all, because I know that Jennings isn't an idiot and he's already addressed these issues.

"That's why we'll be using the tunnels," he says, as though everyone will just naturally nod their heads and say, "Oh yes, of course! The tunnels!" No, everyone's reaction was, "What in the blue hell are you talking about?" Then he brings us all to see the tunnels.

At the bottom of one of the internal stairwells there's a double-doored electrical closet. It's actually the entrance to the tunnel. Sort of. There's the standard electrical closet stuff, but there's also an access panel used to open the back wall of the closet, and *poof*, that's where the tunnels are. And they lead to every damned building in the office park, where presumably a similar electrical closet it set up for the same reason.

Jennings says that we'll be using only one set of tunnels and the rest will remain sealed off for the time being. Standard protocols will be put in place to ensure that people don't enter one building and exit another by accident. This, in particular, has the potential to get really annoying. Because the new office has a different cover story, and those who work in the current building can't change their cover story, if I am reassigned to the new building, I'll still have to enter and exit through the old building and use the tunnels to get to my office.

Stay tuned for more crazy.