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

No work for me today, just got a text from the boss. School (where I work) is closed so no point in even bothering.

Plus getting home last night on the hill into the village was immense! I passed at least 8 abandoned cars. Stopping on the flat bits and getting some momentum up for the steep hills is all that got me home! Traction Control helps too. Almost turned around and went home to the parents (they live on a flat estate).
 
Biohazard said:
lol is this ocuk dictating work practice to the world now?
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Sounds like someone wants some brownie points doesn't it. :D

I'll be setting off in a bit, only live about 2 miles from work, although the CEO of the company I work for said not to bother coming in unless you really have to, it's nice to work for someone reasonable like that - it gains you much more respect than saying "YOU MUST COME IN WHATEVER". :)
 
Not enough snow around here to stop people from going to work but then it doesn’t take much to stop people. ;)
 
I guess a lot of people around this area will be off work today. I got all the way to the car park and then the sliding games began. :D Managed to 'park' in a fashion.
 
car is stuck, and can't realistically get to work through public transport. I don't even think they gritted some of the trunk roads round by me :-/ council is ****
 
Fortunately I can work from home which I normally do anyway at least twice a week.
 
I've driven in the MX5 in yet again, easy peasy. Another easyish 8 miles but it didn't snow since yesterday afternoon. About 2-3" of frozen snow everywhere but the roads are quiet bar a few 20mph drivers. Was overtaking them in the unused outside lane of the A59, carefull of course.

You just need some common sense to go about in this weather, even if you just follow the 20mph folks. Starting to snow again now though, could get interesting later :)
 
Spie said:
He's certainly got the right attitude to succeed and would be chosen over a slacker for promotion any day of the week.

Still, staying at home playing games is far more important.
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I don't get paid If I don't make it in. This changed in the last 12 months. Last year the engineers for our airline all made it in through the bad weather with 99.5% of the man hours covered during the bad weather. The same was true for the cabin crew and pilots.

The offices, management, directors etc had around a 40% turnout. They stayed at home. They all got paid.

This year a few engineers couldn't make a nightshift, some of which travel upto 100 miles each way and their pay was docked and a company email sent out about 'no-shows'.

Despite all this If the weather is dangerous tonight I won't go in. I will try but I'm not putting myself in danger of other idiots. I have a son and I would like to be around to make sure he grows up with a father.

Just before xmas I witnessed some of the most terrible driving in bad conditions I have ever seen, I'd rather live than leave my son 2x my wages as death in service.

I've been in one fatal road accident, I have no wish to end up in another.

If I was a boss I'd care more for the wellfare of my employees than bullying them into work, after all the re-training to cover a deceased employee in my case are huge ;)

I understand some people wing a sickie but how will you feel after putting pressure on If the conditions were actually bad and one of your employees dies on the way to work?
 
There's no such thing as "bullying" people to come to work.

People should turn up for work, by any means available to them. Unfortunately many don't even bother to try which is indicative of the poor attitude to work of many people in the UK.

I have personally experienced this a few times when a member of staff said it was impossible to get into work only to find that it was actually rather easy and they hadn't really tried at all.

Nobody is off at OcUK today due to the weather. Nobody risked their life - they just left a little earlier.
 
Meh, this is why more companies should positively encourage and foster telecommuting arrangements - if only as a contingency for days like today.
 
A previous company I worked for gave an annual bonus of £100 at the end of the financial year, if no time other than pre-booked holiday was taken. Ie. No sickness, No staying home due to snow etc.

This encouraged most of the staff to try to make it to work. However if you take pride in your work - this should not be neccessary.
 
philjohn said:
Meh, this is why more companies should positively encourage and foster telecommuting arrangements - if only as a contingency for days like today.
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...and that's exactly what I'm doing. As Spie suggests, I don't even fancy trying today but I don't have to thanks to my lappy and broadband.

So what am I doing on the forums during school time then?!?! :D
 
A previous company I worked for gave an annual bonus of £100 at the end of the financial year, if no time other than pre-booked holiday was taken. Ie. No sickness, No staying home due to snow etc.

This encouraged most of the staff to try to make it to work. However if you take pride in your work - this should not be neccessary.
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I do take pride in my work.

I go in over an hour early on most days and I will stay late if needed. I will check on things when I'm off on holiday, however I cannot physically get my car to the main road, which incidentally hasn't been gritted and is currently empty as it's just solid ice and snow.

I tried to and failed to get a friend off his drive and gave up after many attempts.

I really wish people would drop this attitude of risking life and death to get into work.

I've tried all of the obvious avenues and none are available. Add to that my boss has actually phoned me and told me not to go in.

So I do take pride in my work and enjoy working where I do thank you very much!
 
Roads were awful this morning thanks to the snow last night. Luckily working for the NHS I just walked 3/4 of a mile to a site closer to home rather than drive 20 miles to my normal base. Getting home from there last night was NOT fun.
 
I too also take pride in my work but the hill on my estate is impossible to drive up in an automatic smart car. So I had no choice but to call in to advise them I wouldn't be able to make it.
 
Princey said:
I too also take pride in my work but the hill on my estate is impossible to drive up in an automatic smart car. So I had no choice but to call in to advise them I wouldn't be able to make it.
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So why didn't you leave your car closer to the main road and walk the last bit?
 
There wasn't anything there last night and from my experiance the hill has always been cleared on days of snow in the past.
 
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