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.
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.
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