I cant believe work.....

why not if i do a late shift i proberly cant get home with a bus service , think it would take a long time by bus (12 miles) there so 24 miles in total , i also sometimes have to stay longer than what my shift is so a bus is completly out of the question.

i dont think there is many people who would want to finish work at 11:30pm not knowing when the next night bus is coming along in freezing temps and then sitting on a bus possible 2-3 buses for 12 miles.
 
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SDK^ said:
My other half is a deputy store manager at Sainsburys.
She worked yesterday, had trouble getting home but made it.

This morning I drove her into work as she wasn't too confident. We both got up at 7am, cleared the car and got there for her start at 9am.
The roads were pretty bad but passable. The motorways were down to a single lane and all other roads were like a sleigh ride. The journey home was better due to gritters and increased traffic.

She sent me a text at 9:30 saying a lot of people were phoning in sick and they are expecting a very busy day; forecasted turn over - £500k+
So, those that made it in are going to be up against it with a reduced work force, probably work through their lunch and do unpaid ovetime.

I'm sitting at home thinking what a bunch of lazy, work shy people this country has.

Get into work and support your co-workers !!!!

I'm also guessing the same people who have posted 'stay at home' throughout this thread will be the first people complaining when they can't get food for Christmas because no one has turned up to work.
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How come you weren't in work? :p
 
To be honest, I'm all for the work ethic and all that, but the day anyone, in any country, walks 16 miles in snow, in the middle of the night, to stack shelves at Tesco, is the day they become internet meme.

He's not a fire fighter, paramedic or the guy that switches rail tracks for the 2am Northern Express from Paris to Johny O'Groat's. There is no precedence, nor a designated title of Work Hero for plowing through snow on foot for 1.6, let alone 16 miles in his line of work. I vote he stays at home and the manager who coined "walk it" remark finds a dead fish in their locker the next day.
 
SDK^ said:
My other half is a deputy store manager at Sainsburys.
She worked yesterday, had trouble getting home but made it.

This morning I drove her into work as she wasn't too confident. We both got up at 7am, cleared the car and got there for her start at 9am.
The roads were pretty bad but passable. The motorways were down to a single lane and all other roads were like a sleigh ride. The journey home was better due to gritters and increased traffic.

She sent me a text at 9:30 saying a lot of people were phoning in sick and they are expecting a very busy day; forecasted turn over - £500k+
So, those that made it in are going to be up against it with a reduced work force, probably work through their lunch and do unpaid ovetime.

I'm sitting at home thinking what a bunch of lazy, work shy people this country has.

Get into work and support your co-workers !!!!

I'm also guessing the same people who have posted 'stay at home' throughout this thread will be the first people complaining when they can't get food for Christmas because no one has turned up to work.
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And if a few of those who tried to get in had accidents on the way there, what would you say?

"What a bunch of pathetic, careless drivers we have if they can't drive to work safely on black ice!

There's no excuse for missing work!"

Sheesh, some of you are really hard-line.
 
I wouldn't have walked 16 miles to work and back unless you're attendance is a case of life or death. I walked 3 miles in it last night, that was enough.
 
Lopéz said:
Given that the whole"getting yourself to work" thing is your problem not theirs..... yeah.
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Wrong, it is their problem too. While I don't agree you should be paid for doing nothing unless you are genuinely sick, managers have to be understanding and mindful of the conditions. If public transport is cancelled and the employee has no way to get into work, other than walking 8 miles each way at night in horrible conditions (with asthma, which can be exacerbated by the cold) which I assure you IS absolutely ridiculous, then they have to make allowances. Not to mention why should friends risk their own necks driving him in said conditions... at 10pm at night on a sunday when most people are in bed preparing for the next day working. FFS, it's all over the news that conditions are very bad and transport is mostly closed... it should be no surprise to anyone with an IQ of that greater than a brussel sprout that some people will inevitably have difficulty making it to work for these specific couple of weeks.

Sorry, but some of you (and im not singling you out Lopez, more a general comment) really just are absolutely chuffing ridiculous in how comically unforgiving your attitudes are, sometimes it's actually cringeworthy to read.

FoxEye said:
Haha, this thread is hillarious.

There are doctors and surgeons not making it into work because of the snow, yet they demand a Tesco employee walk 16 miles braving hazardous conditions because it's somehow ... immoral ... to miss a day's work due to bad weather.

Get off your high horses.
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This, this and this.
 
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Richdog said:
Wrong, it is their problem too. While I don't agree you should be paid for doing nothing unless you are genuinely sick, managers have to be understanding and mindful of the conditions. If public transport is cancelled and the employee has no way to get into work, other than walking 8 miles each way at night in horrible conditions (with asthma, which can be exacerbated by the cold) which I assure you IS absolutely ridiculous. Not to mention why should friends risk their own necks driving him in said conditions... at 10pm at night on a sunday when most people are in bed preparing for the next day working. FFS, it's all over the news that conditions are very bad and transport is mostly closed... it should be no surprise to anyone with an IQ of that greater than a brussel sprout that some people will inevitably have difficulty making it to work for these specific couple of weeks.

Sorry, but some of you (and im not singling you out Lopez, more a general comment) really just are absolutely chuffing ridiculous in how comically unforgiving your attitudes are, sometimes it's actually cringeworthy to read.



This, this and this.
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and all of this
 
I've only skimmed the thread but if people cannot get to work, public transport isn't running and it's treacherous conditions to walk in, why on earth would people be going out to do a shop?

If staff can't get in, shoppers can't get in either...
 
jack.mitchell said:
I've only skimmed the thread but if people cannot get to work, public transport isn't running and it's treacherous conditions to walk in, why on earth would people be going out to do a shop?

If staff can't get in, shoppers can't get in either...
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I live a short walk from quite a few supermarkets as do many people, the staff from those shops may live many miles away
 
JBuk said:
I live a short walk from quite a few supermarkets as do many people, the staff from those shops may live many miles away
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Indeed, but in all honesty how many of the days shoppers are within a 10 minute walking distance. Especially when these people could go any day of the week when it wasn't horrible conditions. Your point is valid, as I myself live within a 20 minutes walk of a Morries but I certainly wouldn't pick a day like this to go in unless it was urgent.

If 10 out of 15 staff have reasonable means of getting in, I would imagine that only two thirds of the general public would also make the effort. Alas I have no real world experience of working in a supermarket but I know from experience that this is the effect when working in restaurants.
 
Right here is the update some of you been waiting for lol:

Yes i attempted to get to work i left at 7.50pm and yes i got there at 10.40pm. I looked in to the buses again & none of my normal bus routes were running still, but found a route that would get me a bit closer to work using 2 buses that were still running a very limited service.

After the 2nd bus it still left me about 2.5 miles away from work so i walked it!! An i tell you it was bloody cold an it took about 50 mins to walk.

I tried speaking to one of my managers when i got in & he just laughed when i told him what they said on the phone, i tried asking him what the companies views would be if i have issues with buses on Sunday (tonight) an told him how I had got in . An all he said don't worry the roads will be much clearer by then - So really didn't answer my question.

An i had to make the same trip home this morning the walk took a bit longer as i shattered plus i slipped over but the other 2 buses were running a bit more frequent and it took 2 hours 30mins to get back home.

At the moment my normal buses are still running tonight so i should still get in ok, if my achy body lets me lol. Not sure if it was from the slip or the walking in the snow that far but my legs really do hurt.
 
mrfun1981 said:
Right here is the update some of you been waiting for lol:

Yes i attempted to get to work i left at 7.50pm and yes i got there at 10.40pm. I looked in to the buses again & none of my normal bus routes were running still, but found a route that would get me a bit closer to work using 2 buses that were still running a very limited service.

After the 2nd bus it still left me about 2.5 miles away from work so i walked it!! An i tell you it was bloody cold an it took about 50 mins to walk.

I tried speaking to one of my managers when i got in & he just laughed when i told him what they said on the phone, i tried asking him what the companies views would be if i have issues with buses on Sunday (tonight) an told him how I had got in . An all he said don't worry the roads will be much clearer by then - So really didn't answer my question.

An i had to make the same trip home this morning the walk took a bit longer as i shattered plus i slipped over but the other 2 buses were running a bit more frequent and it took 2 hours 30mins to get back home.

At the moment my normal buses are still running tonight so i should still get in ok, if my achy body lets me lol. Not sure if it was from the slip or the walking in the snow that far but my legs really do hurt.
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Well my hat goes off to you for making the extra effort mate and doing some more digging on the limited bus services, don't think many can argue with that. :)
 
your boss (or the tit u rang) sounds like a pasty muncher - totally unreasonable to suggest walking 8 miles to get to work

if you slipped and fractured a bone will they give you compensation?
bunch of ******* tbh!

Please fully star swearwords!
 
40 minutes late. Not acceptable :mad:

Only joking ;)

Well done on getting in. Hopefully, last night was a one off. It's OK for one, maybe two nights. but any longer is getting unreasonable.
 
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