Anyone work at a place that doesn't ever allow snow days?

[Alexander]

I sure do, and it sucks trying to get to work during some of the recent storms.

I'd rather not risk life and limb to show up to work, but if we take too many personal days in too short a time, we face disciplinary action.

The CEO himself was snowed in a couple weeks back, and everyone still had to show up to work.

[rurallib]

1. In my working days i did. 20 miles of open road one way

never missed work, but Jesus I had some close calls. All to make shampoo.

[IcyPeas]

2. it's not fair...

we never get snow days here in los angeles.

[csziggy]

3. Or here in Florida

Though once we did have an ice day - December 1989 when an ice storm went through around Christmas time. That pretty much shut down Tallahassee.

[bigwillq]

4. Kind of sort of

Technically, if we're scheduled, we're supposed to go in.
But I can usually work from home since I have a bit more flexibility, as far as my duties are concerned, than some of the other folks I work with.

[Chan790]

5. I do.

Technically, they don't not allow them but we get paid for them when they occur so they don't ever occur. Last year there were two in the same week and in response the CEO fired the regional VP. General rule of thumb is that we're not getting a delay or closure unless the government closes the state down.

All so old ladies can withdraw $20 for bingo. Nobody else ever comes in on snow days.

[TZ]

11. You work for the world's largest douchebag company

BTW, DON'T FORGET TO TAKE METRO IN TOMORROW!!
:)

[Chan790]

18. Oh "in" doesn't concern me...

if I get stuck on a bus inbound for 8 hours, I still get paid for it. It's outbound I need to remember to take the train.

[era veteran]

6. I cannot miss work

and that is the way it is. I live at the end of a dead end on a hill. I have the best snow moving tool. A blade you push like a lawnmower. I have moved a lot of snow this year.
Spring will come, the days are getting longer.

I don't remember this much snow in Lexington since '77-'78.

[denbot]

7. If it ever snowed heavily here it would be the Donner Party times 16 million.

It is bad on the Freeway's here in Los Angeles during the first rain of the season.. I can't imagine how we'd cope with substained snowfall.

[Initech]

8. Yeah but I live in southern California where it doesn't snow anyways...

[LynneSin]

9. I'm really challenged by that after a wretched real life story I witnessed

I worked at a place ages ago that had a policy of requiring everyone show up to work regardless of the weather. We were a 24x7 support line guaranteeing someone would always answer the phone.

A guy who use to nightshift ended up in a car accident that really boogered up his body. Mind you banged up bodies usually end up with prescriptions to pain killers and pain killers can sometimes lead to addiction. After a year, the guy became so erratic at work, mainly because it was obvious that he had a serious drug addiction and previous attempts to get him into rehab failed, that he was fired.

About six months later the guy was found murder - he was shot in the head and then his car was dumped in a bad neighborhood where it was set afire.

I sometimes wonder if story would have ended like this had the policy of 'no snow days' not been in play.

I am happy that I work somewhere that has options when it comes to snow. We aren't technically given 'snow days' since we can all work remotely, but we are given extra time during the day to get our cars dug out.

[zen_bohemian]

10. I live in the northern plains. I guess we could have optional snow days,

if the DOT closes the roads, then I guess we cant get to work, I guess that would be a snow day, but otherwise we don't really have snow days. Here they don't even cancel school unless it's a bad blizzard, if school was cancelled every time it snowed, the kids wouldn't go to school from November to March :)

[bif]

12. I'm a free-lance copywriter

And the company I work for is going to let me work from home if we get the expected snowfall tonight. That's pretty nice of them.

[struggle4progress]

13. I worked at a school that never announced a snow day until mid-morning

Taught 8 AM classes. Would check the website and call up at 7 AM to find out if it's a snow day: invariably was told -- No, it's not a snow day. Would drive in very slowly on unsalted uniced unplowed Southern roads, with some Bubba tailgating me and tooting, until the inevitable near accident when the road turned slightly. Would get to school: no sidewalks or steps deiced, except maybe in front of the administrative offices. Nobody anywhere in sight. Would sit around in my empty classroom just in case. Eventually would call again: invariably was told -- Of course it's a snow day! What's wrong with you?

Had some jerks do that to me for a statewide meeting once, too. Five hour drive for me, and the meeting was to start at 9 AM. So I planned to go the night before. Called before I left town: Yep! The meeting' still on! Drove, arrived late at night, got up the next morning, nobody in sight. Pounded on the door a while -- finally somebody answers: Of course we cancelled the meeting: we called everybody late last night to tell em! What's wrong with you?

[lukasahero]

14. Since the invention of telecommuting,

there's been no such thing as a snow day in my vocabulary. I may not be in the office, but I'm working.

Sorry for you and folks that have to go in or worse, drive for a living. Poor FedEx guy just left here - I wanted to offer him some hot chocolate. :(

[Crystal Clarity]

15. Yup, not only that, but showing up late

(over 8 minutes) meant a loss of so-called 'bonus-pay' (regular-pay, people counted on it). Weather had no bearing on the matter. BTW, my drive of 17 miles is not uncommon around here in the boonies. In fact, I had it better than many.

I don't know how things are now- but this was an improvment... It used to be that if anyone on your 'team' came in late (teams of 4- at the time), everyone on the team lost their 'bonus'. That was in the early days of the team-thing where I worked. I've no idea idea why they (thankfully) stopped that policy.

Back in the late 80's, when I first began working in the factory, if you were late over 8 minutes (and it happened to be a holiday weekend) you lost your Holiday pay. That happened to me once. My childcare provider had some sort of personal issue, therefore didn't open on time. I got to work over 15 minutes late and lost 2 days of Holiday-pay. (Thanksgiving and the day after).

Oh my, the stories I could tell... conditions, mandatory overtime, ect, but no one ever wanted a Norma Rae 'running her mouth' in my neck of the woods. They were afraid, and rightly so. I've learned that lesson well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeHsl_owrAk

[Kat45]

17. That s hit shouldn't be legal.

I don't doubt that the company did that, but I still say it shouldn't be legal.

[Crystal Clarity]

19. No recourse

even when we were still a 'blue state'. But now?... I'd laugh but, that might make me cry...

The only game left in town has me blacklisted for speaking out. Dexter Shoe (my first factory employer) is gone and this one (I can't say the name) is the only one left within my line of work in the entire state.

They've downgraded my abilities to that of a newbie despite 12 yrs of experience for political reasons that I cannot go in to. Bottom line is that I have effectively and thoroughly been silenced. The downgrading was only part of the fun I think. You know, the credibility thing...That, and to make sure other branches of their factories w/in this state will not hire me by accident.

I'd love to tell my story but I am (clearly) no writer, and even if I was able/had the talent, I can see no good coming of it for the people I originally spoke for in the first place.

Right or wrong, I may be f'd for the rest of my life (in the only line of work I know) but others have asked for no part of this and NEED their jobs ...

I've already (probably) said too much and can say no more. Thanks for your concern though Kat.

[county worker]

16. I work in Santa Barbara, we don't have snow days.

It does snow in the mountains behind us but you can always drive along the coast to avoid the maybe once a year 1/2 inch or so snow in the pass. I think it was 70 degrees and sunny today.

[Brickbat]

20. I used to work in newspapers. No such thing as snow days there. I've spent the night at work.

Also, Mr. Brickbat works for the railroad, and the trains almost never stop.

[Nikia]

21. I live on the main hospital route

The owner lives further down, away from work, on a side street. If he can make it to work, I have no excuse for not being there. He actually said this to someone when we had a bad snow storm and the person remarked on who made it to work on time. The people who live out of town are given more of a pass. The few times that it was really bad and people in town tried to call in, they were picked up and brought to work.