It snowed pretty hard once in Alabama, and the roads got icy so they cancelled work. Management told us that we would all have to use a day of PTO for this unplanned vacation. I told my boss “Fuck that, I’ll walk to work. You’re not getting my PTO.” and he said “You can’t do that, the building’s locked.”
I was prepared to become an Issue, but the next day they must have realized how illegal that paper trail was because they retracted the PTO thing.
A similar, much more severe storm happened a few years later, and I told my boss that I was absolutely not driving to work in my little sedan. He told me he would come pick me up and that I was a big baby, then shows up sliding around in his Prius with no chains or anything. After barely making it in, no one else was at the office and everything was dark. He made me work the full shift anyway before letting me go home, and HR said they wouldn’t give me any consideration for working a day more than everyone else.
I fondly remember the Beast from the East blizzard in Ireland in early 2018. Got a whole paid week off work because the entire country was basically in lockdown since Ireland isn't used to that sort of weather condition. Cozied up at home, and one day I put on my winter gear and walked from Dublin to Howth and back. I was the only person outdoors. No cars, no busses, no trains, no pedestrians. It felt like 28 Days Later, just without the Zombie apocalypse. ^^
As @[email protected] said. However it also has to do with temperature. I work primarily with lime mortar, so hard limit without additives is 5°C. And honestly I don't really like to risk it when it might drop to 6° either. With cement mortar mixes you can get a little bit lower, 3 or 4°C. With cement and an anhydrous additive you can work to like -5° but you still need to wrap it with something to retain heat. Insulated tarpaulin or multiple layers of hessian with a tarpaulin over top.
I have an academic job where I can sometimes skip work (usually when I get mildly sick, so I don’t spread it to colleagues) and I get exactly the same weird feeling of “being at home and missing out” as when I got a doctors note to skip school and stay home.
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It snowed pretty hard once in Alabama, and the roads got icy so they cancelled work. Management told us that we would all have to use a day of PTO for this unplanned vacation. I told my boss “Fuck that, I’ll walk to work. You’re not getting my PTO.” and he said “You can’t do that, the building’s locked.”
I was prepared to become an Issue, but the next day they must have realized how illegal that paper trail was because they retracted the PTO thing.
A similar, much more severe storm happened a few years later, and I told my boss that I was absolutely not driving to work in my little sedan. He told me he would come pick me up and that I was a big baby, then shows up sliding around in his Prius with no chains or anything. After barely making it in, no one else was at the office and everything was dark. He made me work the full shift anyway before letting me go home, and HR said they wouldn’t give me any consideration for working a day more than everyone else.
It really is. Some adults do get actual snow days though in jobs you can't do under the conditions.
During the remote work era it was a bit of a bummer that there were no more snow days
Now that we're in the return to office era, does that mean we get snow days again? Fuck no, you can work from home those days (but only those days)
Nah it means you work remote for that snow day
Yeah, that's a pain in the ass.
I fondly remember the Beast from the East blizzard in Ireland in early 2018. Got a whole paid week off work because the entire country was basically in lockdown since Ireland isn't used to that sort of weather condition. Cozied up at home, and one day I put on my winter gear and walked from Dublin to Howth and back. I was the only person outdoors. No cars, no busses, no trains, no pedestrians. It felt like 28 Days Later, just without the Zombie apocalypse. ^^
Our Atlanta, GA location has snow days when Atlanta gets more than a few cm of snow...
I fucking love that feeling!
I work outside, I literally have snow days. Can't do my masonry job from home.
Not with that work ethic!
As @[email protected] said. However it also has to do with temperature. I work primarily with lime mortar, so hard limit without additives is 5°C. And honestly I don't really like to risk it when it might drop to 6° either. With cement mortar mixes you can get a little bit lower, 3 or 4°C. With cement and an anhydrous additive you can work to like -5° but you still need to wrap it with something to retain heat. Insulated tarpaulin or multiple layers of hessian with a tarpaulin over top.
Should not do masonry work on a very snowy day. You'll just end up with a very botched result.
Except, of course, if you have a roof of some kind to protect the wall.
I have an academic job where I can sometimes skip work (usually when I get mildly sick, so I don’t spread it to colleagues) and I get exactly the same weird feeling of “being at home and missing out” as when I got a doctors note to skip school and stay home.
Their have been power outages that have effected my work. The excitement of getting to go home being crushed by a generator kicking on is terrible.
Isn't it "affected"? I'm not a native speaker though
Yes, you have an effect on something, but you affect something else.
yeah, we've had power and internet issues shut down the shop a handful of times
cancelling a meeting is meh, there's often at least one more scheduled at the same time or one immediately following it. it's hardly an afternoon off
I'm glad my last job was a shitshow for that. There was no generator and we'd even get extreme cold days off