The do I or don't I, go to work thread

Greebo said:
Problem is that if you have a boss like mine you get no gratitude for battling in even if it takes you 3 hours, just a bollocking for being late and not setting off at 5am.
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+1.

Just before Christmas when it was the last round of major snow it took me 2 and three quarter hours on the 48 bus service in Bristol to get from Downend to Old Market, which is only about a 6 mile journey and usually takes about 25 mins. I let a few people at work know that it was taking yonks and I would be late. I was meant to start at 9am and eventually got to work at about 12pm (i left the house at 7.45am as the bus stop is right outside my house).

About 3pm one of the managers comes over and says to me 'oh I noticed you were a bit late this morning' so I explained to him about the road conditions etc and he walked away looking like he didn't believe me :-/ If they take such a dim view of me being late due to some extreme condtions (for the UK at least), next time I'll tell them I don't feel safe with the conditions and I won't bother, which by all accounts could be tonight!
 
Snow isn't bad where I live today, but if it is bad during the week im sure the school will close, so I won't have to make the drive or not drive decision myself.

Personally if you feel unsafe doing so, don't drive. If you you want to drive, then do so.

I always at least try to get to work, spun out on the motorway one year when driving to work on black ice, car slid towards barrier at side of the motorway backwards and stopped about an inch away, still made it to work!
 
manic_man said:
That's the problem though, this doesn't happen every year in this country. This kind of snow fall happens maybe once every 5 or 10 years?

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Having said that, I stick by my original post, people need to man up and get to work, or wherever they are meant to be, if they possibly can, not only go to work if its entirely easy to do so.
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Yea, I'm just used to -20 and digging the car out in the morning :D I guess I must have been 'unlucky' seeing this chaos happen twice since I moved to the UK.

I just imagine that public transport, especially the airports/airline companies must lose a lot of money on all delays and cancellations. So if the train/buses can’t deal with it I would imagine airports like Heathrow and Gatwick would do. I guess that’s where the major loss would be transport wise.

"andy" said:
this guys boss probably forced him into work
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Haha
 
Time would be better spent telling the council get to work. The amount of ungritted main roads round here is pathetic.

Dancing On Ice? Was treated to a personal show in town today with people of all ages landing on their arse or face. I thought shop owners were obliged to treat the pavements outside their premises?
 
Dark_Angel said:
AMG I recommend removing the hotlink to the bike you pictured, unless you own the domain jacksbikes of course. :p
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done:P you really think I would do that with £500 bike, no only a £50 second hand one still as bad through! particauly when its too big for me >_>
 
Bunch of lazy barstewarts ya lot, I made it from Hereford to Birmingham for work this morning :p

wish me luck for getting home though lol At least there is a Jury's Inn, Travelodge opposite the road if I can't lol
 
As much as my posts which defend people not making it in to work might make people think I stayed at home, that is not the case. I set off at 5.30am this morning and got in before due time.

I will always try to make it to work but on occasions like when I came across a tractor stuck in the snow and blocking the road a few years ago after taking an hour to go 3 miles, I turned round and went home.

I am kitted up to access the computers from work and can work from home but my boss doesn't beleive in that kind of thing as he assumes that people will do no work if at home.

So here I am at work posting on ocuk ;):p
 
I got the train into work and it was no bother at all as they were running properly, bizarrely enough. Plenty of people haven't made it in though.

The trouble with driving in is that it's all well and good that you are properly equipped and capable of driving in the snow. What you have to worry about are the numpties trying to drive at normal speed on compacted snow with low profile tyres or whatever.
 
skippi90 said:
Apart from the fact that there doesn't have to be snow for there to be ice. Not that it isn't a truly pathetic excuse. :p
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It was barely even icy this morning! The only way somewhere in this area was too icy to travel over is if during the night a sprinkler had been left on with the express purpose of freezing said area! :confused:

All this snow talk is annoying me, apparently we're not due to see it until tomorrow afternoon when I'll already be in work. If Stansted Airport closes at any time I'm going home!

:D
 
twentyone said:
Yea, I'm just used to -20 and digging the car out in the morning :D I guess I must have been 'unlucky' seeing this chaos happen twice since I moved to the UK.

I just imagine that public transport, especially the airports/airline companies must lose a lot of money on all delays and cancellations. So if the train/buses can’t deal with it I would imagine airports like Heathrow and Gatwick would do. I guess that’s where the major loss would be transport wise.

Haha
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In all fairness, you live in Lincolnshire, I live in Manchester.

i am talking about country wide snow as we are currently seeing. Last year Manchester got about 1cm of snow for 2 days and that was it, and that was the first time in a very long time I remember us having any.

I used to go to Lincolnshire every year to meet with family purely because they nearly always had snow around this time of the year.
 
About an inch here in Warwickshire (near Stratford-upon-Avon) and we've all been sent home from work!!

Great news as a free afternoon off, but LOL.
 
anticonscience said:
What? It's stopped now.....:eek:
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I know, it's pathetic. Everyone (well, the girls tbh *ducks*) started panicking and complaining, so the MD agreed to let everyone go!! Apparently there's more on its way but I can't believe the kind of weather that gets you a free afternoon off in this country.

Even the wife's still at work, and she's a teacher! (Though she's coming home as soon as she can get the last set of kids picked up).

Gonna have a bath do some DIY and watch some cricket!
 
im at work with the joys of a job based around shipping - unfortunatly a bit of snow doesnt stop ships.

ive already sent one of my collegues home due to a 40 mile drive home and the weather being worse where he lives (Hull).

unfortunatly there are no ships due till after my shift finishes im awaiting office staff to send/recive emails to sort out my paperwork.
 
Robbie G said:
I know, it's pathetic. Everyone (well, the girls tbh *ducks*) started panicking and complaining, so the MD agreed to let everyone go!! Apparently there's more on its way but I can't believe the kind of weather that gets you a free afternoon off in this country.

Even the wife's still at work, and she's a teacher! (Though she's coming home as soon as she can get the last set of kids picked up).

Gonna have a bath do some DIY and watch some cricket!
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I am hoping the forecast that we are to get more here is correct. All the schools here have shut and I doubt they will be open tomorrow.
 
Left 15 minutes early tonight as it was beginning to settle on the A5. Was told to see how it is tomorrow morning and if the main roads are bad to wait and see.
 
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