Getting in bother if you think you're unable to get to work?

Red-Squirrel_2

TELLIT01 wrote: »

That may not be a decision for you to make. Many places, certainly many in the public sector, don't make any allowance for weather conditions preventing people getting to work. If you don't turn up it's either unpaid or take a days leave from your annual allowance.

If you read my post, it says I wouldn't be offering.

dori2o

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

Are you for real? I work not that far from you and go down Trinity Way right past the Arena to get to work everyday. I got to work about 20 minutes later than normal on that day. Just find a different route and put your foot down if traffic is bad or roads closed.

I suppose it all depends what time you got into Manchester.

We dont start ATM until 9:30/10:00am and all was fine until we got to Cheetham Hill Road, then 2.5 hours crawling the last 4 miles or so.

AquaGirl

Phew what a day. All's well that ends well. Just home and got to work no problem so didn't have to miss out on any pay which is a relief at this time of year. Main route had cleared up.

rubble2 wrote: »

Given the OP's user name a bit of flood water shouldn't prove too much of a problem:rotfl:

Haha nice :T

TELLIT01

AquaGirl wrote: »

Phew what a day. All's well that ends well. Just home and got to work no problem so didn't have to miss out on any pay which is a relief at this time of year. Main route had cleared up.
Haha nice :T

Good to hear everything worked out. From what I've seen on the news the waters rose very quickly and fell again quite fast after the event. The speed of the fall is absolutely no consolation to those whose homes and businesses were hit.
I live in Gloucestershire so know only too well the devastation that flooding causes. The flooding in this area back in 2007 came within inches of causing the whole area to lose all electrical power by overwhelming power stations.

andygb

PasturesNew wrote: »

One year where I lived there was really bad snow. My little old mum had a little part-time job in town 3 miles away and she was 68. She went to the bus stop but there were no buses running that day ... so she walked all the way there and all the way back, for a 3 hour shift that "anybody" could have done/covered, or "nobody" and it wouldn't have mattered.

While the world grinds to a halt, OAPs are usually to be found "just getting on with it", like they did in the War.

Back in the eighties, I worked up in London, which was a two hour commute.
The snow was so bad that our buses weren't working, so I walked the four miles to the station - no trains were running, so I walked back home - a total of eight miles in the snow.
I phoned work just before nine and told the boss.
He said that everyone else (who lived in London) had managed to get in, so it was up to me.
I had a good attendance record and was always the first in.
Sometimes managers/bosses can just be nasty idiots.:(

Comms69

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Good to hear everything worked out. From what I've seen on the news the waters rose very quickly and fell again quite fast after the event. The speed of the fall is absolutely no consolation to those whose homes and businesses were hit.
I live in Gloucestershire so know only too well the devastation that flooding causes. The flooding in this area back in 2007 came within inches of causing the whole area to lose all electrical power by overwhelming power stations.

Lancaster Dec 2015.... power lost for 3 days, wasn't too bad though. The local off licence stayed open

Kynthia

andygb wrote: »

Back in the eighties, I worked up in London, which was a two hour commute.
The snow was so bad that our buses weren't working, so I walked the four miles to the station - no trains were running, so I walked back home - a total of eight miles in the snow.
I phoned work just before nine and told the boss.
He said that everyone else (who lived in London) had managed to get in, so it was up to me.
I had a good attendance record and was always the first in.
Sometimes managers/bosses can just be nasty idiots.:(

That's the thing about working in London due to the distances people travel and the wide variety of transport methods and train franchises. In one office you can have people struggling and taking hours to get in or not making it at all. Yet you can have colleagues who only live a few miles away from them having little trouble and others coming from the opposite side of London not even having the weather conditions that are the cause of the trouble.

dori2o

Kynthia wrote: »

That's the thing about working in London due to the distances people travel and the wide variety of transport methods and train franchises. In one office you can have people struggling and taking hours to get in or not making it at all. Yet you can have colleagues who only live a few miles away from them having little trouble and others coming from the opposite side of London not even having the weather conditions that are the cause of the trouble.

Its not just london.

We live up in't thills on the edge of the pennines but work in Manchester.

Many of the people I work with live much closer than we do, or live in built up areas which dont get as affected by snow.

When it snows bad around here it can be really bad, yet in Manchester (as with most cities I think, due to the large number oh high rise buildings, the larger population, and the fact that these glass buildings keep the streets that bit warmer, and because the councils work harder to manage the highways, the snow never gets that bad.

Therefore when I call to say I'm going to be late (twice) , or I'm not attempting it (only done once) , or that I've tried and turned around (done once) , the managers look outside of the office in Manchester and proclaim that the roads are fine and there's no/little snow there.

For some people, as it doesnt affect them, they believe it doesnt affect anyone.

Callie22

dori2o wrote: »

Its not just london.

We live up in't thills on the edge of the pennines but work in Manchester.

Many of the people I work with live much closer than we do, or live in built up areas which dont get as affected by snow.

When it snows bad around here it can be really bad, yet in Manchester (as with most cities I think, due to the large number oh high rise buildings, the larger population, and the fact that these glass buildings keep the streets that bit warmer, and because the councils work harder to manage the highways, the snow never gets that bad.

Therefore when I call to say I'm going to be late (twice) , or I'm not attempting it (only done once) , or that I've tried and turned around (done once) , the managers look outside of the office in Manchester and proclaim that the roads are fine and there's no/little snow there.

For some people, as it doesnt affect them, they believe it doesnt affect anyone.

This was my experience too. I grew up in the Peak District (way out past Buxton) but went to college and then worked for a few years in the Stockport/Manchester area. It could be very difficult to explain to people just how bad the weather could be at home when it was just drizzling in the centre of Manchester!