My employer did not close during the blizzard like conditions yesterday. Most employers in the Philly area and all schools were closed. I got up this morning at 5:15 as usual and prepared for a cold slog into work. This was a long johns day. It was 9 degrees and windy. But the sun was shining. I didn’t bother to check my work email while at home. Even though I now have a smart phone, I didn’t check that either.
I was on the road at 6:40 and had the best commute in years. Only 40 minutes to go the 30 miles. The Schuylkill was a dream. I was in a pretty good mood as I entered the parking garage. When I got out of my car I noticed all the lights were out in the University gym. Then I walked into my office suite and noticed I was the first one in, which was unusual. Then I sat down at my desk and opened my email to find out the University was closed. The message had been sent at 10:30 last night. I later checked my text messages on my phone to see a colleague, who knows I’m not the most tech savvy, had forwarded the news we were closed last night.
That was a real bummer. Who closes on a cold sunny day after staying open during a blizzard? I guess this classifies me as a dumbass. My ride home was not quite as good, as there was a 5 car fender bender accident on the Schuylkill. So, I spent about two hours of commuting for a one hour stay at work. I’m sure the day will get better from here on out. I’m always an optimist.
Tough commute! You probably used a lot of fossil fuel on your return home. Look forward to the age of retirement on an immense monthly income that can be used to live large any time you want. (Although I am there, it has yet to happen to me. It has to happen to someone, maybe you will be the fortunate one.)
Immense monthly income is not in my future. Just living off my accumulated 401k savings and social security. It won’t be the high life.
So you’ve definitely ruled out male prostitution? The world’s loss I suppose.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/fred-garvin-male-prostitute/n8669?snl=0
Jim,
You brought back an old memory from years ago, I was a new employee of the Toro Company (lawnmowers etc.) in Minnesota. There was a smallish blizzard, by Minnesota standards, and I didn’t think too much about it on my fairly nasty 30+ mile commute in my pick-up truck.
When I got to the sizeable factory, there were only a couple people there, out of the usual hundreds, and they lived a few blocks away, walking distance.
I was the new dumbass, and more or less an idiot despite my heroic commute.
Oh well…….
Went to a client on Presidents Day – they were closed.
I’ll be lucky is Social Security is still there. I have seven years before I can take early retirement or 10 years before I can take regular retirement. That is, if they don’t move the goalposts again.
Admin, in a positive way, you could consider it similar to getting out of school early unexpectedly. Those were the best days of the entire year for me.
LOL! Some days your the windshield, some days your the bug.
You’re
Youz if you’re from Joisey.
Face palm!
I don’t consider an ’email’ sent after 10:00 PM on a week night notification particularly since you get up just after 5:00 AM. I’d request a days pay or comp time depending on how your employer wants to handle it.
That would all depend on being an exempt vs. non-exempt employee. As an exempt salary man myself it’s part of my job to know what’s going on with the office. If I don’t check my messages from home it’s tough titties on me if I drive in when the office is closed.
Now for non-exempt people my local politicians think an employer should pay them a full days wage if it’s a slow night and they turn them loose 4 hours early, just like California. If we want to pass laws for that kind of ridiculousness that’s fine, just makes us less desirable of a place to start a business, but I’d still argue it’s up to the employee to know if the business is open or not.
Ouch. Well there’s always alcohol. It’s 5:00 somewhere
I have to agree with unit472,
they should have placed at a phone call to your contact#, or texted you, with this last minute change of plans, wtf.
I don’t look at work e-mails, until I am at work.
I would put in a travel voucher, for the heck of it.
In our area, we are notified by the local news media. Everybody submits closing to media so people know what to expect. For example, if it snows in South Carolina, that a big deal! Everything closes down, even for an inch of snow. Except E.R.s and the Waffle House. Now if the Waffle House closes, you know you’re in deep trouble.
Some days are better than others, Admin… You just had a little bump. Wait for the Trumpbang..
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I showed up to work one day and was surprised I was the first one there. After a few minutes, I became incensed that everybody was late. Minutes later, after careful investigation, I realized it was a holiday.
I have no trouble remembering the 4th of July or Cinco de Mayo but the rest just come and go every month (except in August when there’s no holiday at all.)
Maybe we could petition congress to adopt a National TBP day in August.
Last place I worked took care of all those odd holidays by getting rid of them and moving the time off to the week between Christmas and New Years. It really pissed them off when I pointed out they weren’t valuing the diversity of all of the non-Christians they’ve been importing.
Optimist, eh? 🙂
I hadn’t thought of it that way. But yes. Optimist is a good word for it.
I had one of those fucking days yesterday. Spilled my smoothing all over the floor while running late for work (which made me later of course) then cut the shit out of my finger with an angle grinder. Note to self: Don’t touch the spinning part. Huh, who knew? Then, on my drive home…THREE fucking accidents on my route. 40 min turned into an hour ten.
Optimism alert: At least you weren’t in the accidents you encountered on the way home. So a good day after all. 🙂
Admin,
Did the exact same thing a few years ago. I stayed in work since it was nice and quiet and got much work done do to the lack of distractions. No extra credit though. Off yesterday, only one person on the construction site and he dropped materials and ran. I was here at 6:30, the first contractors here, the hardwood floor guys at 7:30. Yes, they are Vietnamese, they helped me shovel out the driveway and happily went to work. Guys slowly showed up throughout the morning. The snow is the least of the problems, it is the cold that is killing everyone. Seven days below twenty and very windy, coastal south shore makes for very poor working conditions. Single digits tomorrow. I am getting told old for this shit.
Bob.
The Pacific Northwest is back on the Pineapple Express, 50 degrees and heavy rain. Seems awesome in comparison, though there are flood warnings. An Iowa coworker noted that on Christmas it was 20 below. Ouch.
A true optimist would thank God that the person involved in the accident is not himself /herself. And the delay is not much longer.
You should have just hung around the office naked for a while – because you could.
I read about a young lawyer who did that. He was fired when the boss played the security video. Apparently, he had his way with the boss’ coffee cup and stuff. So, bad idea. Besides, what if anybody else showed up? Remember the universal rule of managing: 10% don’t get the message.
I didn’t go to sleep last night and about 5 am to 6 :30 am I was reading the comment section on the Burning Platform .I really enjoy the comment section.I have no idea why this would matter to you or any of the shit throwing ?s. Maybe just letting you know you are not alone . So Enjoy the rest of your day off.
I have one of those jobs that never closes for anything. Also we don’t get holidays because the sick and dying in hospitals and facilities still require care daily no matter if it’s Christmas or a foot of snow.
My wife is an RN so we both just are used to it. I do get the option of rearranging my schedule at times and working the weekend before or after a holiday ( or doing a double the day before or after ) so I am covered but the wife works in dialysis and failure to get scheduled tx can be fatal to a person whose kidneys have stopped functioning.
When I have days like that I just have to remind myself that it could have been worse.
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And just because it didn’t know the thug lingo. I bet he hated that.