OH is a teacher and his school was shut yesterday and closed early friday (but the head left it way too late, 2 of the school coaches crashed and there was a big accident outside the school making it nearly impossible for anybody to leave. it took OH 2 hours to do a 15 minute journey).
The head is a bit of a nob tbh. nobody likes her, she seems to hate her staff and likes to turn them against each other. it makes the school an unpleasant place to work at times. she really has it against my OH - when i was in hospital with a suspected ectopic pregnancy she thought he was lying about it and asked a lot of personal questions before he was allowed to leave to see me in hospital (on a afternoon where he had no classes or other responsibilities apart from marking might i add...). Last school year she also got in big trouble because she flipped at OH for doing something (He didnt do anything wrong at all) and called him a lot of names and when OH complained to deputy she had to back track a lot and got in a bit of trouble!!
anyway back to the point - this morning OH couldnt get his car to move at all. its a rear wheel drive, very impractical car tbf, but the road conditions on our estate are treacherous. he tried for about 20-30 minutes to get his car out and failed miserably. it was also very icey and he fell over 3 times trying to do this. he called his friend who works at the school and lives nearby for a lift, but he couldnt get hold of him. He rang school and explained the situation and asked if anybody could pick him up. he explained that it is very dangerous to walk on the pavements and road because tis so slippy (last week i fractured my coccyx because i slipped over on the ice and it wasnt anywhere near as bad as it is now). he had a phone call back off the head asking him to explain himself and said she didnt care how icey it was, he needs to walk or get a bus.
the bus is a good 10/15 minute walk away on a good day and is all up hill by busy roads. IT is also another 10 minute walk when he has gotten off the bus (on a normal day). OH fell over SEVEN times on his way - he now has a sprained ankle, sprained wrist and has hurt his back.
do you think OH was unreasonable to say he didnt think he could get to work? or was the head unreasonable for making him walk and get bus to work in dangerous conditions??
AIBU?
was OH being unreasonable re work
milf90 · 22/01/2013 12:58
WRT getting to work, YABU, everybody should be checking the temperatures and weather forecasts and we all know it's cold, so all should be making arrangements to ensure we can go about daily duties (like parking the car a mile away for me 
), and whilst the weather forecast is not always accurate looking at you Brighton's 'light sleet' snowstorm today it will give a general gist of if you need to prepare for the next day in some way.
And not wanting to do a ten minute walk? Really? I'm sorry but most adults can manage a 10 minute walk and should have a decent pair of shoes to walk in.
My bosses were a bit on Monday when I turned up, having travelled 45 miles, (taking 2 hours), and some of the staff who lived 3 miles and under away just couldn't get in...
Believe it or not I am sympathetic to people whose normal travel arrangements don't work out - but there are several alternatives, coaches, buses, trains, trams, taxis, walking, boats....
I have never heard of socks over shoes for grip. Will try it out in the garden.
True, it probably would present a problem. I don't have a genuine health reason, just petrified of falling over.
If someone fell over 3 times due to poor conditions on the roads though at what point should they give up? 
. If you've fucking hurt yourself surely you go home and give it up as a bad job.
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