Workmates and snow!

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It isn't even snowing here yet but people are already saying they can't come in tomorrow because they need to stay at home to look after their 32 year old! Drives me up the wall!!!

AIBU to think they should have a contingency plan?!!!

My work don't pay for weather days off either. You take annual leave or it's unpaid. Criminal justice / drug services and I've never known us be completely closed as the city centre is normally accessible by at least some of us.
Prison staff have to get there no matter what and are disciplined if they don't or so I was told anyway.
Schools can't open if they're deemed to be unsafe or staff can't get in but many services in different places open if schools have to close.

Yes FryOne
Given the weather forecast I parked on the next street when I got home last night - my road is never gritted.

My DH is from an area in the US which gets a lot of snow. He laughs at the way people in the UK react to snow especially with school closures ect. We don't tend to get much snow at all where we live, but the last time we did we got a dusting and a few people he worked with apparently couldn't make it in as they were snowed in

However, he did admit that it would be pointless for the UK to invest in any infrastructure as there really isn't enough snow. Incidentally, where he used to live he used winter tires, but won't over here as doesn't think they are worth it.

however we ensure we can get out in the worst weather. If you choose to live remotely then you make provision for that.

Interested as to how you do that. We have the council contract for digging roads out local roads in the snow. Sometimes we can't as it blows in too fast. Maybe you live somewhere with little snow-fall so no issues? If not, share your secrets and ensure that we can all get out in the worst weather!

I'm in Texas and last winter we had 3 days of freezing rain. Schools were closed, as was my office for the first two days! However, the schools had to make up the days on what would have been public holidays.

The 3rd day of it, everything was open, but it turned out to be the worst weather day of the winter. Previous 5 winters we lived in Canada, and there were zero snow days for school.

I fell over in snow the other day - went down like a sack of bricks and hit my head on ice. I thought of this thread and felt very glad I'm not pregnant.

It looks like pretty much every single school in my state is closed tomorrow, and there's a complete travel ban after 9pm. Wish us luck...

My friend is a serial offender for using snow/prospective bad road conditions in cold weather for skiving off not turning up. In her last job she nearly got the sack after not turning up to work for nearly two weeks.

2 years ago, when we had about 18 inches of snow, one entire family of children stayed off for two weeks. They lived a 10 minute walk away, none of them were under 5 and no one was pregnant. The buses were all running as well.