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« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2009, 08:25:28 pm » |
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Absolutely! You just tell him to call me if he has any problems...  Marie Peer Moderator |
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Katie G
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« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2009, 09:33:58 pm » |
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Snow I don't mind so much, but we've been getting a lot of freezing rain this season -- falls as rain and freezes on contact with cold surfaces. It can turn a street into a sheet of ice in less than a minute, and you can't always tell it's happening until it's too late. Very frightening. My boss knows that if it's an ice storm, I'm not budging. Fortunately, I have the ability to log into the network from home if it comes to that.
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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2009, 10:56:59 pm » |
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41 and rainy here. We were supposed to get snow tomorrow but now it's just cold and rain. {Darn It!}
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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2009, 11:19:54 pm » |
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Well I couldn't decide whether to walk or drive to work this morning - in the end I drove and once I got onto the main road it was fine, apart from it taking me 20 mins instead of 5!!!. Took the dog to work with me and took him in the field at the back of the office at lunchtime - he had great fun. Then I decided as it was so lovely and snowy and a lovely evening that I would leave the car at work and the dog and I would walk home - via the post office. We had a lovely snowy 50 mins walk home. We are walking to work in the morning  |
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2009, 09:09:02 am » |
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Just rain here overnight, no snow. Hope you are thawing Jess!
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JessW
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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2009, 11:11:55 am » |
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hmmm! Well, I left the house at 7.20am and managed to get to work at about 9.45am - usually only takes me an hour to get in. Am wondering whether it was worth it and if and how I am going to get home again this evening!
Hope everyone else is doing better.
The concensus at work is that the only people who made it into work (about 15 out of over 100) all came in to London from Essex!
Jess (very cold and feeling very narked!)
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gee4
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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2009, 11:12:47 am » |
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Well if your company has any sense they should alllow you to leave the office any time between 3-4pm to ensure you get home.
Failing that I would just tell them you are doing so.
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JessW
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« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2009, 11:14:02 am » |
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This is the same company that sent this email to everyone's work email address:
"In view of the severe weather conditions, it will be quite understandable if people can not get in to work today."
That is word for word!
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« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2009, 11:16:45 am » |
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Eh, excuse me for being blonde, but how on earth can you read that if you haven't even made it to work? Duh.
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JessW
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« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2009, 11:31:30 am » |
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Mind you, Gee, I knew about that email yesterday - remember I did put "have also just heard from a colleague at work. She got in to find an email sent out by the biggest boss saying don't come in to work! How stupid can you get. She is, of course, going home!" I just didn't know the extent of the staffing deficiency yesterday when I originally posted!
Bosses are not employed for their brains - that is why they employ us (we act as their brains so they do not need to think logically)!
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« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2009, 11:34:31 am » |
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Even so. If I was one of those 15 who made it in I would have been livid! I am just jealous I didn't have a Monday morning lie in....  |
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« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2009, 12:45:14 pm » |
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Gee
I didn't get a monday morning lie in - I was up at 6.30am and found out about the trains at 7am! There was no point in going back to bed as I would have disturbed OH who was fast asleep!.
One day, maybe!
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« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2009, 01:09:34 pm » |
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Oh no, bummer!
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« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2009, 04:36:21 pm » |
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Jess, I don't know how such things work in the UK, but is there a possiblity that you and your brave colleagues would be entitled to an extra day off as compensation? A former workplace of mine did that. Four people out of an office of 40 made it in during a snowstorm because they were within walking distance. They were permitted to an extra day off to use sometime else since everyone else had the day at home.
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« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2009, 05:10:54 pm » |
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Didface on this occasion there may be a case, but I have never had an employer allow this - Jess maybe you could comment.
They think if they can make it in so can you. I had to forfeit a day's leave in the past due to bad weather conditions. I think companies should make allowances for those that live a distance away or who travel by public transport.
Anyone could have an accident and what's the point risking your health/life just to get to work?
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