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Original poster

to want a snow day tomorrow

38 replies

BrizzleDrizzle · 10/12/2017 12:35

It's unlikely, but I really wish we'd have enough snow day for a snow day - or is it just me being work shy?! Grin

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MumGoneMild · 10/12/2017 12:36

No.
Its my last day with out the kids till Jan.

glenthebattleostrich · 10/12/2017 12:37

I'm with you OP, we were told to expect up to 10cm of snow. I woke up all excited and nothing. I'm watching flurries from my window and it's not settling.

Nothing to do with being workshy btw, I work from home!

whoareyoukidding · 10/12/2017 12:38

OP YADNBU

hidinginthenightgarden · 10/12/2017 12:41

I really don't! I have a few appointments that would be much easier with one child rather than 2!

bridgetreilly · 10/12/2017 12:44

Plenty of snow here and more forecast. Unfortunately, I can work from home.

daisypond · 10/12/2017 12:47

Surely you'd lose a day's pay or a day's leave if you couldn't get into work, though.

EmilyChambers79 · 10/12/2017 12:48

Lots of snow here. It's been constant since 4am and the snow is settled, currently halfway up my tyres on the car.

Unfortunately I have to work and therefore will walk tomorrow if it hasn't melted. If school is closed (an 8 mile drive) then DS will come to work with me.

ilovesooty · 10/12/2017 12:52

If I don't get to work I don't get paid and it inconveniences a lot of people.

Perhaps your circumstances are different.

confusedlittleone · 10/12/2017 12:56

I don't, work won't take kindly to me if I have to take a day off due to not having childcare

Maladicta · 10/12/2017 13:01

I'll be very surprised if we don't have one, roads out of our village are vvv treacherous. Dc4's school bus already cancelled...

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 10/12/2017 13:04

I suspect we will get one in Essex.

My son attends a Special school and they get pupils from across the south of the County. For safety reasons I suspect they will close.

I have no work tomorrow so am looking forward to a lie in.

runwalkrun · 10/12/2017 13:04

No No NO! Shock
No sticking snow!
I haven't finished my Christmas shopping!
I'm usually done by now, but I'm really behind been a lazy git this year for some reason.

ScienceNut · 10/12/2017 13:05

We have Ofsted in school tomorrow, I desperately want a snow day

ladystarkers · 10/12/2017 13:06

Hope not, its the holidays soon and I need to finish shopping.

brasty · 10/12/2017 13:13

I was due to work from home tomorrow anyway, so no snow day for me.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 10/12/2017 13:14

Well,for me snow creates additional workload, so I don’t get a restful snow day. Expectation is you get on in

CotswoldStrife · 10/12/2017 13:20

I am hoping for a snow day, it's really sticking here though. Just about to bookmark the local closed schools page.

Iwantacampervan · 10/12/2017 13:28

No chance of a snow day here - very heavy rain and strong winds all day.

maddiemookins16mum · 10/12/2017 13:30

I normally wfh on Mondays. However tomorrow I need to get to Wembley (from near Folkestone) for a one day conference by 9-9.30am involving getting my first train at 0550 (and then various connections).
I hope the weather makes it impossible to travel as opposed to ok to travel but a horrendous journey, if that makes sense. I toyed with staying over tonight but DH at work all day (with the possibility of being severely delayed getting home or not at all and having to 'sleep in').
This would leave DD (albeit 13) and I don't want weather related stuff meaning there the chance she'd be alone over night (we don't leave her alone after 10pm at the latest, not that she cares!).

Lily2007 · 10/12/2017 13:32

We are hoping for one here and looks hopeful so far already several inches on ground and supposed to continue until 10pm then a max of 1 degree through to tomorrow. I'm wfh so fine for me.

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BrizzleDrizzle · 10/12/2017 13:36

I can walk to work so no, I won't. But if it's too bad then it'll be closed as it's only a got a small number of staff and many live in outlying areas

@Sciencenut, hopefully OFSTED will be snowed in and therefore unable to come, though do you really want to have to wait until after Xmas for them to come?!

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Quickchange1 · 10/12/2017 13:37

There really should be some sort of legislation regarding Employers expecting people to get to work when (if) conditions are treacherous. Apart from Emergency services and NHS surely most things can wait a day/be done from home. Schools are not childcare and if roads close or the council/Police insist on taking school run traffic of the roads it really isn't an Employees fault.

craigglen · 10/12/2017 13:38

I hope not - I'm self employed and due to work tomorrow and if I don't work I don't get paid. There's hardly any snow here but no doubt the trains will be affected 😬

CaptainHammer · 10/12/2017 13:40

No YABU. I work as a carer for people in their own homes, snow is a pain in the arse.

If I worked in an office then I’d probably feel differently though!

PumpkinPie2016 · 10/12/2017 15:02

The school I work at literally never shuts do I hope the snow isn't too bad.

I have a 4 wheel drive with snow tyres so it has to be really bad for me to struggle but it's everyone else on the road that makes it hard as they slip/slide.