What does your place of work do about snow?

[Planogirl]

Our company does its best to ignore bad weather. We luckily rarely have problems but when we do it almost cripples the area. The company will grudgingly let people take a day of vacation or a no-pay day but will heap tons of praise on those who did make it in. The trouble is that often those who make it live a few blocks away while many of those who don't come in live a long distance away.

 

[jsmith]

I work for a defense contractor on a military installation-my company is private but how we handle snow days is driven by the installation commander. We generally come in to work in bad weather although they will take a two hour delay to allow the soldiers not to do Phyiscal training. We are occassionally released at bit early to keep us from flooding the highways if its really bad-they do that in phases-but we have not had aday off for snow since december of 06-and thats uncommon in Colorado

 

[DisneyAngel83]

I work for a small medical office in billing. We do not get snow here, (in Houston) but after Hurricane Ike in 08 my office closed down for 2 business days due to not having any power.

EVERYONE had to take either non paid days or paid time off even though we couldn't have come to work if we wanted to since we were closed. Even though we were in a state of emergency (no power for days), and the owner decided to close, he didn't just give us the days as holidays since he had lost 2 full days of patients, and then they only trickled in the rest of the week as everyone tried to get their lives back on track. Talk about being frustrated when you have to take sick days for a natural disaster!!

 

[acejka]

Not a thing! Turn back to our cozy fires and snuggly pups... We are closed from December 24th-March 10th-ish!I love love LOVE it... I may have to work harder or more days in the spring, summer and fall, but I get almost the whole hated season off! I love being outdoors the rest of the year, and even the first part of December isn't bad since we are gearing up with tons of Christmas stuff.

 

[Disney Doll]

Nurse in a hospital.
I either get myself to work or they'll come and get me.
On days like this, if I have to go in, I usually pack a little oevrnight bag, just in case....

 

[Pluto 2]

where i work we get one snow day a year. they give it to you if you didnt get your 40 hours for the week. before we left yesterday tuesday we knew we were off today wednesday so they schedule saturday on the schedule so we will get our 40 so they wont have to pay us for the snow day.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

We're in CT and no snow yet, but DH called to tell me that after his 10:30 appointments he has nothing on his schedule. However, they have been told that even if they go home, they may have to go out if there is a phone problem. People can deal without cable or internet but apparently phone is considered a lifeline service and has to be fixed no matter what. I personally find it hard to believe that there are a lot of people these days that don't have access to another phone via a cell phone or something but what do I know.


Me, I'm sitting at home (SAHM) wondering why my kids couldn't have at least gone in for a half day. No snow yet and they are already antsy, but it's too cold to go out in the yard and if snow is imminent I'm not heading out anywhere. This promises to be a looooooong day

My grandmother is in her late 80's and lives alone....she does not have other means of communication other than her land line. No medical alert, no cell phone, etc. If she wasn't feeling well, lost her heat, electricity, etc. you bet she'd need her land line to call someone for help so yes, phone people are definitely "essential." Maybe the baby boomer generation on down depend on cell phones but the older generations in general do not.

As for the OP's question ~ I work 2 jobs. The 1st is in healthcare at a home health aide office and I am responsible for opening the office up in the morning - turn over phones from the ans. service, getting our aides their schedules or rescheduling patients, etc. Luckily I live about 5 miles away and have always managed to get to the office....even without 4 wheel drive. My other job is a retail position in the mall. This job infuriates me in the winter when the weather is severe because I know that they will NOT close even when there are no customers. And it's generally not the stores but the anchor locations and mall management that makes that call and will penalize the smaller stores with fines if they open late/close early and then they decide to do just that without getting penalized themselves. But again luckily I live nearby so I've always managed to get there too. DH works in a hospital and is considered essential personnel so if he couldn't get in then there would be someone picking him up.

My advice to my brothers & sister has always been to be prepared.....get up early, take your time, and if your that uncomfortable with the driving conditions then call in sick.

 

[Mkrop]

Nurse in a hospital.
I either get myself to work or they'll come and get me.
On days like this, if I have to go in, I usually pack a little oevrnight bag, just in case....

Just wanted to say thank you to all the essential personnel who go in when there are a couple of inches of snow, or when there are blizzards and record snowfall. The nurses, doctors, other hospital personnel, pharmacists, plow drivers, police, fire, EMTs, paramedics etc, are wonderfully dedicated people who do their jobs despite many obstacles.

Please stay safe!

My advice to my brothers & sister has always been to be prepared.....get up early, take your time, and if your that uncomfortable with the driving conditions then call in sick.

Glad to see some else gives advice to their siblings!



Well the roads were finally reopened around here. We really got nailed here in the Philly suburbs. Record snowfalls!!!! The whiteout conditions were insane!


Stay safe to anyone having to drive in snow, essential or not!, Snow is a fact of life sometimes a messy one but one we must face, so we need to be smart about it!

 

[sdemore]

Luckily I work for a company that makes it very easy to work from home, as does DH. Daycare will probably be closed but we will probably be able to juggle calls and keep the kids occupied and when that gets old they will look like this

According to your ticker you are leaving for the most magical place in the world. Hope your flight makes it out We just got back at midnight Tues. morning. We were supposed to leave Sat. but flight was canceled due to snow in NJ. Now this might sound wonderful to some of us Disers but I was already playing hookie from school (pto) for our 25th anniv. trip, and we couldn't get a new flight out until WED.! DH only had one extra day of meds. for his heart condition, and a new storm was hitting again Tues. night before our flight so now we are looking at another 4 days of delay Time to camp out at the airport and try and get on Stand-by. Took a couple of days but finally got on one Now I'm home because school is closed, just what I needed to do 10 days of laundry and clean the house after my 19 and 20 yr.olds have been here alone!?!
BTW ignore the ticker, just got back and I have forgotten how to change it. Unfortunately, it will be a lot longer before we get back

 

[Pancakes]

Nothing. Shop Rite makes you come through any weather. I just "call out sick"

 

[ZPT1022]

My grandmother is in her late 80's and lives alone....she does not have other means of communication other than her land line. No medical alert, no cell phone, etc. If she wasn't feeling well, lost her heat, electricity, etc. you bet she'd need her land line to call someone for help so yes, phone people are definitely "essential." Maybe the baby boomer generation on down depend on cell phones but the older generations in general do not.

I never said EVERYONE has cell phones, just that MOST people do these days. I'm sure that most older people don't, and probably a few younger people too, but they are hardly the majority of the population. I honestly had never thought about it before and like I said, for the most part his company wants people off the roads because of the liability they are under if there's an accident. DH would definitely go out if he had to but if he doesn't have to be driving around in it, why?

 

[heaven2dc]

I work for a family owned firm and we really don't get vacation days or sick days much less snow days. When I need a day off or few for vacation, I always get my request (but I only took 7 days off in 2008 and none last year for vacation and will only have 5 days off vacation planned so far this year).

As far as snow days, my boss' wife says don't stress about getting in - not worth risking your life for and I've only missed one day (yesterday) with all the snow here in VA. My boss on the other hand says do your best so I take his wife's advice and let them battle it out

 

[pozey]

Wow. After reading all the replies, I have to admit...I work for an absolutely wonderful company.

I work for a large, but privately owned company.

Now...here where I live, our city is not prepared for snow and ice like other cities that routinely get large amounts of snowfall.

We had a "major" snowstorm a couple weeks back. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 - 10 inches of snow.

Snow began falling around 1:00 pm on a Thursday. An email was sent out at 1:30 saying the office was closing at 1:45. Turns out...very little snow fell that day. So...back to work on Friday.

Friday, the snow actually came. Started snowing about 9:30 am. By 11:00, you could tell we were going to get quite a bit of snow, so another e-mail went out saying the office was closing at noon.

Again...nothing like what the northeast is getting, but again, we are not prepared for "major" snowstorms like that.