"You called in because of the weather? Oh come on, it's not that bad" - With pic

[Andara Bledin]

These stories and pictures only further reinforce why I live in southern California.

Snow might be fun to visit, but I sure as heck do not want to live with it.

^-.-^

[SpyOne]

My question is: They could look out the window and see the weather, why in blazes did they even question me in the first place??

Weather is incredibly relative.
Where I live now, half that much snow and most businesses would close. For days.
Where I grew up, some businesses might close, all would be understanding of an employee who didn't want to brave the weather. But you could still get a pizza delivered.
Where my grandparents lived (central New York), that much snow is hardly enough to bother plowing. Nobody's closed, and you'd better be on time. Yes, you should have planned for this: everybody knows that you might wake up to find two feet of snow has fallen while you were asleep.

Ontario is at a similar lattitude, but stuff like lakes and rivers and mountains can have a big effect on the weather, so I really don't know what local conditions are like for you. If this kind of snowfall happens at least 6 times each winter, you should get used to it. If this happens once every couple of years, your boss needs to learn how to deal better.


One last thing: people always react better when presented with a possible solution than when they have a problem dumped on them. You say that the busses don't run late enough on Saturday to drive you home (if they cancelled the busses, that's a good indicator for your boss that the roads are unsafe, but from what you said it seems the busses were running), so apparenly the issue was getting you home from work, not getting you to work. Something like, "Because of the heavy snow, I don't think it is safe for me to walk home. I can get to work, but could somebody there drive me home at the end of my shift?" goes over way better than "It's snowing, so I can't come in."
If you had said that (the first one), and the manager didn't offer to drive you home himself, then he's definitely a jerk and you need to be working for somebody else.

[rerant]

I'm in Toronto and when that snow hit (and it started early in the morning and KEPT snowing well into the evening) my store closed early. 4pm, to be exact, when on that Saturday we would have closed at 9pm.
I was supposed to start at 4 so thankfuly they called me and told me not to bother coming in, but seriously, with weather like that you shouldn't have to go out.

As a side note (that I'm sure people in Ontario will appreciate) I had the most wonderful dream last night.
In my dream I left work and the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and it was 25C!

And then I woke up.

[Department stores *sigh*]

I agree, stay home in that weather.

And this is coming from an Edmontonian. Believe me if I posted some of our winter storms you would freak out >.<

[Fenrus]

I'm gonna have to agree with most of the people here. If you don't feel comfortable going out, don't go. Call in.

There's been a couple times in SLC where my town (stupid murray doesn't plow til the day after sometimes, I swear) is so snowed in, you can't get anywhere.