Managers working from home in bad weather

TBeckett100

mein fuhrer has not made it in over the snow period. He drives a range rover with snow mode and yet still refuses to drive. the worst thing is him going awol all day then sending an email round in the afternoon telling staff they will leave at normal time tonight when we all nearly died driving in.

In my workplace, those who blatently say they are not coming in get away with it, those who ask to leave early after coming in all weathers get a harder time.

Anyway, i cant argue, we are ina recession and I am pleased I have somewhere to go between 9 and 5.30

jaffacakes82

If 'Managers' are legitimately working from home - fair dos, it doesn't bother me as there's usually a lot they can do and often it's nice to have a few hours peace to get a crucial piece of work done.

But some 'Managers' do take the right utter pi*s with it just to get a free day off work. Often in the pub at a later date you can hear people bragging that they did f*ck all.

A 'Manager' at my work (who used to be my Manager until Xmas) has always been a 'skiver' whenever she could get away with it.

She doesn't live a long journey away (tube ride) yet she hasn't come into work since the snow (although people from places as far as Eastbourne are making it in!) and has claimed she's working from home on x, y and z projects. I was talking to someone in her team today and he told me that A) She hasn't sent or replied to any e-mail on her BlackBerry. She hasn't answered any call from the team. C) The projects she's claiming to be working on, all the paper files/CD-Roms in relation to them are still sitting in the filing cabinet.

Her previous Manager from before Xmas will utterly useless, she could have told him she was working from the moon for a couple of weeks and he wouldn't give a sh*t (he was near to retiring).

But as of January 4th she gained a new Manager above her (who is apparently very strict) and will be taken into a meeting first thing on Monday.
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Taiko

Being in the south, I've been hit hard. My manager is a good 40mins drive away from the office, and stuck on a hill. Can understand why they cannot get in, and they also have a small child.

I struggled in on wednesday. I couldn't drive my car as it was snowed in completely, and again due to a hill at the end of the road I live in. I therefore attempted a walk of one mile to the train station, however this is over 9 ungritted roads, and I found myself repeatedly slipping up. On arrival, the trains were delayed by at least an hour, if not cancelled. It's then a 20min train journey if one did turn up, and another mile the other end.

Took me the best part of 5 hours getting to work and home again the other day. There's little work to do, because post isn't being delivered and it's that which actually generates the work for me. It's not therefore practical for me to make the journey in to work, although I have still made the effort to.

Enfieldian

Like Welshwoofs, I too am a Manager and work from home all the time.

Tuesday I went to Luton and was due in Milton Keynes on Friday but rescheduled for next week.

Had to walk up the road on Wednesday and Thursday for fags and milk though.

Storck

Taiko wrote: »

Being in the south, I've been hit hard.

That is my favourite quote of the year so far. Up north, especially around Bury/Manchester etc it has been snowing for ages. I can not remember the last time I could look out and not see snow and I'm on the good side of the Pennines. Scotland has been even worse, my in-laws live north of Inverness where the New Years Eve party was cancelled.

Why is it that as soon as the snow hits down south or London it suddenly becomes news worthy and the BBC had special programs on about it on BBC? When it is up north it gets mentioned in passing.

Sorry, know I went off topic but it does my head in how the news & press are so centred on the south of England. :mad: :snow_laug

cirrusmp

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Taiko

Storck wrote: »

That is my favourite quote of the year so far. Up north, especially around Bury/Manchester etc it has been snowing for ages. I can not remember the last time I could look out and not see snow and I'm on the good side of the Pennines. Scotland has been even worse, my in-laws live north of Inverness where the New Years Eve party was cancelled.

Why is it that as soon as the snow hits down south or London it suddenly becomes news worthy and the BBC had special programs on about it on BBC? When it is up north it gets mentioned in passing.

Sorry, know I went off topic but it does my head in how the news & press are so centred on the south of England. :mad: :snow_laug

I'm a northern boy myself, and as I mentioned, I made every effort to make it to my work. It's the rest of us that have no clue, and it's those people that are actually making my journey in more difficult and pointless!

Amanita_2

ixwood wrote: »

link to another thread which confirms cars may well have something to do with it:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2191199

Also I'd say managers are more likely to live in remoter areas and villages, where roads may not be gritted. That combined with cars that are dangerous in snow and I'm not surprised they don't bother.

Absolutely spot on. I was defeated by an uphill stretch of no more than 10ft before I would have got onto a cleared road. As it was I just rotated gently on the spot. There was no one to give me a push so I had to turn around and go back- 10 mile detour!

frannyann

Storck wrote: »

That is my favourite quote of the year so far. Up north, especially around Bury/Manchester etc it has been snowing for ages. I can not remember the last time I could look out and not see snow and I'm on the good side of the Pennines. Scotland has been even worse, my in-laws live north of Inverness where the New Years Eve party was cancelled.

Why is it that as soon as the snow hits down south or London it suddenly becomes news worthy and the BBC had special programs on about it on BBC? When it is up north it gets mentioned in passing.

Sorry, know I went off topic but it does my head in how the news & press are so centred on the south of England. :mad: :snow_laug

Thats cos down here in the south, the white stuff completely confuses us. Honestly we have no idea how to cope. The road are completely impassable as our councils seem to be unable to hear the words 'the snow is coming' even tho its on a loop on the news. The main A26 was closed for most of yesterday outside tunbridge wells, up north they are just much better prepared.

frivolous_fay

How about this... I do my job in an office which is sales based. My job isn't sales. But I live the closest to work so some days I'm the only one who makes it in. So as well as doing MY job I have to answer the door (not my job) and the sales phone (not my job)

I could quite easily work from home by taking my laptop with me - but if I do that, the office won't open at all. Business is bad enough already.

Do I get any thanks for coming in from the sales team? Do I hell

Oh, and I don't drive - I have to walk on snowy days, with an arthritic foot, TYVM :rolleyes: