My two hour journey to work

[cinema guy]

It normally takes me 10-15 minutes to get to work. But yesterday it was raining -HARD.

It took me two hours to get to work last night. Initially flooding closed off my usual route to work, so I made a detour through the town and traffic was moving at a crawl. So it takes me nearly an hour to get almost to work but there is a huge flood making the road impassable (about 4 feet deep) with cars practically submerged. So I make another detour in the hope of getting on the A road that runs behind the cinema. After another frustrating crawl through traffic and I find the A road is at a standstill.

So I call into work, tell them I'm struggling getting in (I'm 45 minutes late at this point). I was told that they really needed me since I was on till close, so I should try the traffic for another hour. So, since work was close than home I took another detour out of town and back in the opposite direction. I finally arrived at work after driving for 1 hour 55 minutes.

The Manager was singularly un-thankful that several of his staff had walked to work in the torrential rain, or made journeys that took over an hour. In fact he told two members of staff that not coming to work in difficult weather would result in disciplinary action.

I was also worried that I was going to get home to a flooded house since there was a huge build-up of water outside my back door - fortunately not.

Anyway, by the time I got home, I was ready to jump off a bridge.

Fortunately I feel a bit better today.

[blas]

Your manager is a worthless piece of shit.

I fail to think of any type of job that's worth risking your life to go to in bad weather.

[Sliceanddice]

I think it would be illegal to fire someone because an act of god prevented them from coming into work...

Hes evil....

[RammsteinGirl]

Agreed. Your manager sounds like a dickhead. And NO job is worth risking your life over. I'm a Southern girl who is now living up north, and this past winter I had some VERY terrifying drives to work when we got snow and the roads iced up. I'm not used to driving on icy roads.

Sometimes you get that "black ice" on the roads that you cannot see until you get up on it and then you can see it glistening on the road. That's some dangerous stuff.

If my manager ever scolded me for being late or not coming in at all due to deadly road conditions, I would tell them to go fuck themselves and I wouldn't go back. Any manager who values their precious store and the almighty $ over the safety and LIVES of their employees needs to be

[BookstoreEscapee]

Unless you are a police officer, fire fighter, emergency room/hospital doctor/nurse, or some other kind of emergency personnel, you are not needed at work that badly. I wonder how badly it has to flood to declare a state of emergency and force people to stay home...

[ArenaBoy]

Your boss is a dumbass, rain is dangerous in its own way if it's like that. Should've called in saying that it wouldn't be worth the trip. It isn't worth risking your life for your job.

[cinema guy]

Truth is I had no idea that there was going to be huge floods that would stop traffic all over town, so I didn't call in.

He is a dick. They could have run the cinema with a lot less people than we had on (have done before), of course that would have meant him coming out of his upstairs office and pitching in.

I suspect any of the other managers who received phone calls from employees who were distressed about driving in the rain or struggling to find a way in, would have said 'go home'.

[blas]

Send your dickhead manager up to Wisconsin for a winter. Make sure he's not allowed to call in due to inclimate weather.

Then force him to drive on unplowed roads with glare ice.

Aka, bring him to where I live specifically for a few weeks in the winter. They don't plow the roads until it stops snowing around here, it seems.

He would be crying his way to work like a little girl, and probably end up in the ditch within seconds.

[cinema guy]

He would be crying his way to work like a little girl,

I like the thought of him crying.

[Seshat]

Unless you are a police officer, fire fighter, emergency room/hospital doctor/nurse, or some other kind of emergency personnel, you are not needed at work that badly.

Even those, it's worth calling and saying 'it's too dangerous for me to come in, I'm at (location), if I'm needed, send a transport'.

A nurse or a doctor or a dispatcher is not a hazardous-driving expert, and probably doesn't have the right vehicle for travelling in truly dangerous conditions. It's NOT worth risking their life for them to get to work - but it quite likely is worth sending a driving-specialist policeman (or heck, soldier!) in a hazardous-conditions vehicle to fetch them.

If your job isn't important enough to send a driver who's an expert in hazardous conditions, it's not important enough for you to go to in such conditions.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Send your dickhead manager up to Wisconsin for a winter. Make sure he's not allowed to call in due to inclimate weather.

Then force him to drive on unplowed roads with glare ice.

Aka, bring him to where I live specifically for a few weeks in the winter. They don't plow the roads until it stops snowing around here, it seems.

He would be crying his way to work like a little girl, and probably end up in the ditch within seconds.

Or send him out driving after a good thunderstorm--at night. Last year we had some bad thunderstorms one night just before I was supposed to go into work. Almost got stuck in flooded streets not once but TWICE. Scariest drive I ever took, and I only live five minutes away from work.

[SuperDan]

Or send him out driving after a good thunderstorm--at night. Last year we had some bad thunderstorms one night just before I was supposed to go into work. Almost got stuck in flooded streets not once but TWICE. Scariest drive I ever took, and I only live five minutes away from work.

This, IP, is why you TOTALLY need to buy a hovercraft.

[justZu]

I would like to think that if the weather is that horrible, SC's would have enough common sense to stay home, so you wouldn't be needed anyway.
Unfortunately, we all know that true SC's don't have any common sense. So the movies were probably full, right?

Either way, I agree that your boss is quite a dickhead.

[AirHostess]

That was a pretty bad storm the other night, luckily down in the south-west we weren't affected.

Your boss really is an idiot.

[AirHostess]

The Manager was singularly un-thankful that several of his staff had walked to work in the torrential rain, or made journeys that took over an hour. In fact he told two members of staff that not coming to work in difficult weather would result in disciplinary action.

What would he do if there was a hurricane and their homes were destroyed?