to wonder why some people are so pathetic when it comes to their cars and the snow

[Ormirian]

I live 2 miles from work. So I walked. The office is half empty. I can understand that for some of the staff because they live in the back of beyond or miles away and the snow was really bad this morning. But the majority of people working here are locals who drove in against all advice on the radio and in the face of common sense, and then panicked and drove back home again in case they got stranded .

Why can they not get out of their bloody cars and walk! It's perfectly safe underfoot - I walked in OK with a good pair of boots and well-wrapped up.

The factory staff have to work their normal shifts but the office staff have all buggered off when most of them could have found a way of getting in to work safely. I feel ashamed TBH - it's feels as if there's one rule for us and another rule for them.

StewieGriffinsMom agree but doesn't help our roads does it?

Not every path is outside a home or business SGM.

The pavements would be saf-ER but it wouldn't solve all the problems.

some people have to go to get paid!
some people have to go in because there are lots of people being let go and it looks good if they put in the effort.
some people have to go in because they already have cabin fever and will go certified insane otherwise!

I don't think anybody is foolish to go to work if they can, especially if they can walk in.

"I think the people who go to extraordinary lengths to get to work when there's nothing they're doing that couldn't wait are idiots"
I'm just curious as to what these jobs are that don't require the work to be done NOW?

Climate Change Officer, Sustainability Unit?

I stated I didn't mean those people. I was talking about people in secure jobs, with reasonable bosses they could come to an arrangement with who still insist on struggling in and out to work, telling everyone it took them 2 and a half hours each way and making people who made a sensible decision to stay at home feel bad. Also, there's no need to shout .

Claig

There are lots of people who have jobs on their desk that can wait a day or two. For instance, if they are out sick for a day the company doesn't collapse.

claig, I ought to be in the British Library looking at manuscripts. They were written in 1400 - I reckon they'll wait a day or so. I'll write the rest of the paper at home.

Quite a lot of people can rearrange their work so they do a lot of stuff that can be done at home then catch up with a backlog of stuff that can't later on. Dad, best mate, mum - all at home. Mum does phone/email advice for disabled people so has had all work emails diverted and is answering them at home. DH does software testing - can do some of it at home on computer. Website design, similar.

There are quite a lot of jobs you can get on with fairly well at home.

Well, we need to sort this out.

3 winters in a row where snow has completely disrupted things.

I am wtahcing the snow come down - so more snow on top of sheet ice on the roads.

I remember being on a national express coach coming back from London down the A40 in thick snow - it was being driven screamingly fast and I was terrified.

swanandduck, I agree. I mentioned Climate Change Officers working in Sustainability Units as an example. I think it would do us all a favour if they took more than one or two days off.

It wasn't shouting, i should have done the NOW like now to show it was meant to be a different tone in voice.

LittleRedDragon, I agree with you. I think if Climate Change Officers took the year off, we wouldn't notice any difference.

Are there really jobs out there that don't need doing now? Surely someone somewhere will be suffering or waiting due to people not doing their jobs?

On the subject of Gloucestershire roads I can verify that the rural/small town ones are also shocking. Dursley and Berkeley are covered in holes and hair raisingly slippery just now.

I live 15 miles from my work in a small village. I missed two days work in the snow earlier this month. Not because I didn't try. I spent two hours digging alongside a team of neighbours who all wanted to get to work but we failed to get out of the village.
As a result I had to take holidays. I now have to work all through Christmas because I have used the holidays up...If I get snowed in again it will be unpaid.

Ooh don't get me started on Gloucestershire roads and pavements- grrr- we are between Chelt and Glos and NONE of the roads have been gritted. Thankfully dh is off work for two weeks sonno need to be anywhere. Tried to get out this morning to go to the supermarket but most roads into Chelt had accidents on them or too treacherous to pass

claig, come on, you can't 'agree' with me when that's not remotely related to what I said!

Grind your axe on your own.

Climate Change Officer, Sustainability Unit?

locally cold winters doesn't mean no climate change - it more likely means a change in circulation patterns. The current cold problems are actually related to an abnormally warm arctic buggering up the circulation patterns. So we may be in for much more of this in future winters.

GetOrfMoiLand Main roads in and out of Cheltenham- What a joke

If we lose the gulf stream due to melting ice caps it will get even colder in the winter :(

Restrainedrabbit yeah the "Conveyor" isn't it?... Has been worrying me for 3/4 years actually.

Well I had a good lunch time. I walked along the river bank outside the office and threw snowballs. It was perfect snowball snow but no-one to throw them at

The snow round here is no good for snowballs, it's too powdery.

Oh my god Limara

I have just spoke to DP - he left about 10 mins ago and is stuck on Eastern Avenue - it is going to be a nightmare getting there.

Ah this is really good stuff. I threw a few at the river but that got boring. it is so beautiful though.