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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to be annoyed at being the only person who made it to work?

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PurpleLeaves2 · 01/02/2019 19:49

As most of us know, it snowed last night. Not very deep (where I am), and it was all gone by about 9am due to the rain.

I drove the 25 mile trip to work as normal, I was expecting ice and bad conditions but it was fine. But I was the only one who came in, yet I live furthest away. Even colleagues who live a couple of miles away didn't come in.

AIBU to be annoyed about this? Our boss has said he wants people to always try and get in if they can, even if they have to arrive slightly later. I got up earlier, de-iced my car, and made it in to sit in an empty office but no one else could be bothered. If I'd known, I would have had a lie in for an hour and worked at home too.

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PerfectlyPetty · 01/02/2019 19:51

My journey route was clear but the dc’s school was closed and I had no back up so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Could it have been the same for others?

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PurpleLeaves2 · 01/02/2019 19:52

None of them have kids, no

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edwinbear · 01/02/2019 19:52

YANBU. I remember this happening to me once, later that afternoon I saw the FB pictures of one of my colleagues sledging whilst I was trying to cover about 6 people’s work. I felt like a right mug frankly.

But I think all you can do is make sure everyone knew you came in and ask for a bit of flexibility next time you need to leave a bit early early.

ShadyLady53 · 01/02/2019 19:53

I teach at a university and had a 100 mile round trip...most of my students didn’t make it from their warm cozy beds on campus. I only had 4 attendees yesterday and one of them was a commuter! YANBU

WeaselsRising · 01/02/2019 19:54

My boss told us not to risk travelling. We had about 5 inches of snow and all the schools closed, so I worked from home. As did everyone else on my team.

Stayawayfromitsmouth · 01/02/2019 19:57

This happened to me and another few hardy souls a few years back (but there was actual drifts of snow). My colleague had CF ringing to ask her to cover their work. She said no because she had her own to do.

Kittykatmacbill · 01/02/2019 19:59

I had this once!

I was the closest, I got asked by the only other person in the building to check (random director that I had never spoken too before) to call all 20 people to check they were safe. Yes everyone was just dandy having snow ball fights and building snowmen but no they couldn’t come in.

Then spent the day answering 20 peoples phones.
Then random director pitched up again to ask why I hadn’t really done much other than be on the phone...
Ahhrg.

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PurpleLeaves2 · 01/02/2019 19:59

@WeaselsRising yes but I assume you're in a part of the country where the snow is bad. Here, it hasn't been

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Melons66 · 01/02/2019 20:00

Everyone loves a snow day especially on a Friday! I really enjoyed mine. Haha

ChrisPrattsFace · 01/02/2019 20:00

Last year I was one of four that made it in. I live the furthest away, high up in the moors and made it - where as everyone else who lived in the same town or next town over didn’t.
It annoyed me no end, especially when they were all paid for the day too. So unfair!

TulipsInbloom1 · 01/02/2019 20:01

Did you contact anyone when you got there? What did your boss say?

Intohellbutstayingstrong · 01/02/2019 20:03

Does it really matter? It's always going to be a judgement call. I can never understand why people get so frothy about this.

Aenn · 01/02/2019 20:04

Well people take the piss at any opportunity.
That’s just how things are these days.

Coronapop · 01/02/2019 20:06

This is a recurrent theme when it snows, some people make considerable efforts to get to work while others often living nearer see an excuse for a day off. You can feel smugly virtuous (and rightly sceptical of the exaggerated tales your absent colleagues will tell to explain why they couldn't make it).

Hugglessnuggles · 01/02/2019 20:07

I remember years ago it snowed heavily where I was. Phoned and they said try and make it in- I explained my children’s school was closed and I couldn’t get out as no gritter had been by me. ((Work was 40 miles away and I live on top of a mountain in Wales).

Every 30 minutes they phoned. Until I managed to get the car out to take the dc to my mums. Anyway I got stuck after skidding sideways done a steep road. Luckily 2 4x4’s were going around rescuing people. So they pulled me back up the road and parked me safely. I phoned worked to say what had happened, and the one guy took the phone off me and gave work a bollocking. Explaining how deep the snow was, it wasn’t safe for even 4x4’s unless you were really experiencing driving them, it was now a situation where I could not drive any further but had to walk 3 miles with two young dc (youngest was 4) to a place that they could not even get to with their 4x4s.

I had such an apology that night on my email when I made it home, as they thought I was pulling a fast one. They didn’t realise the snow was so bad. 🤦‍♀️They only had to look at all the road closures in my area to see!

On a different note there were times when it snowed that dp always used to get in, 16 miles to work, and people who like within a mile couldn’t get in!!

shewholikeslipstick · 01/02/2019 20:08

Well they won't get paid or will have to take annual leave for it unless it's a very unusual company. In the NHS you'd have to take A/L 🤷‍♀️

BrilliantDarling · 01/02/2019 20:09

You're just gutted really that you didn't stay off 😂 remember next time!

whatamidoingwithmylife · 01/02/2019 20:12

I had this numerous times in my old office. I have always had a horrific commute via pubic transport yet I was pretty much always the only one turning in.
Our policy was that you had to take leave if you couldn't get into work, yet somehow others seemed to be granted 'special leave'.

I did try to speak to management about it but got nowhere. Apparently some of the staff used the excuse that they 'lived at the bottom of a hill' so couldn't possibly make it in

Livedandlearned · 01/02/2019 20:12

It seems as though there are two schools of thought with this type of thing.

MemorialBeach · 01/02/2019 20:18

I had CF in my team this morning, she texted to say it was a bit slippery outside where she lives so was going to try to get a lift in with her dad, but if she couldn't wanted to know if she could work from home. She lives a mile from where we work. I live less than a mile from work in the other direction. Our city has only had the barest dusting of snow and when I looked out of the window this morning I could a few puddles of water (so not exactly icy) and barely any snow. I am pretty sure there wasn't treacherous compacted snow and ice outside her house this morning, so told her to get herself into work.

Parky04 · 01/02/2019 20:19

Held interviews yesterday, Internal applicants only. Two were in the running, one turned up today and one didn't. Guess who got the job!

Suchafunnybear · 01/02/2019 20:19

I was one of only two people to make it in today. And we're the two who live furthest away.

I was particularly pissed off at one colleague, who usually comes in on the same bus as me and only lives round the corner from her bus stop and her children are all adults and she has no caring responsibilities for any one else, who decided it was too hard to come in when I had to pay my childminder for an extra 6 hours, because the school was closed and then walk for twenty minutes to get to my bus stop.

I spent the whole day feeling like a bit of a mug for bothering to go in.

oldsewandsew · 01/02/2019 20:22

I had this where I worked, 15 miles from home. I made it in ok (not easily, but ok), and some people who lived half a mile away said their road hadn’t been gritted so they couldn’t get out. I had to go down one of their roads that day (covering their work!) to visit a client, and the road was totally clear! Everyone got paid as usual, but funnily enough, once they started making people take A/L, an awful lot more people managed to make it in! The worst thing though, no one ever acknowledged that I had made it in that day, and were forever moaning about how everyone was pathetic and couldn’t make it in that day! Grrr, it used to make me so angry!

jelliebelly · 01/02/2019 20:24

Why did you bother going to the office if you are set up to work from home?

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PurpleLeaves2 · 01/02/2019 20:28

@jelliebelly the boss doesn't like us working from home

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