Pockets of people throughout Sun help with "Business Continuity Planning".   BCP is about planning for the big disasters and how Sun will continue operations.   Things ranging from natural disasters to global epidemics or pandemics to...   well, I guess anything that can take one of our major hubs offline, or severely impact a key aspect of our work, are taken into consideration, processed, and worked.   The goal is that when the perverbial &%!# hits the fan, Sun has a solid plan ready to execute.

BCP work makes sense at a corporate level.   Yup.   I get it.

What I did not expect was to have to consider this for my own Small Business which I run outside of Sun.

One aspect of our farm is that it is a "boarding stable" where people keep their horses.   We have 4 people on staff who feed and care for the horses throughout the day all week.   Since we both work for Sun full time, Georg and I do the night time chores.

Recently, 100% of my staff called in "sick".   Did I have a plan in place to handle this?   Nope.   Not unless begging counts.

An Asian Bird Flu pandemic or California dropping into the Pacific due to "the big one" won't severely impact my small business.   But floods and blizzards might, and the common cold and broken down cars could.   I, too, need to have a Business Continuity Plan in place...