You shouldn't be driving to the office when there will be a red weather warning

[mandydandy]

We are in the north east of Scotland. Tomorrow is supposed to be an Amber weather warning for wind and rain most of the day. Later it will apparently be even worse and turning to a red weather warning.
I suggested to my DH that he should maybe work from home tomorrow.
However, his bosses have said they need everyone in the office for a big project. Not likely to get home before the weather warning goes red either.
DH has to drive a pretty awful road to get home. Any other routes would have even more trees and are really twisty.
Surely they should work from home if the weather is going to be that bad?

Jesus some employers really couldnt give a fuck about their employees.

Look after yourselves op. Stand in front of the door if you have to or hide his keys!

Also please report back on how the weather turns out. I'm curious now

I'm a nurse, I'm based in the Angus area and I have to travel to work. However that's different, I do have to physically be there, there isn't any option to WFH for me (I'm based on a ward). I agree with your Teams suggestion, it doesn't sound like it would be unreasonable to let OPs DH work from home.

OP, he's just going to have to say no, sorry, I'm not prepared to go against official advice and travel in this weather. Happy to do whatever from home and stay logged into teams all day but I won't be physically present in the office.

I’m a surgeon, a very disillusioned one! I have a list, I can’t not go in. I won’t not go in. Will it be appreciated? No. Will the NHS care about my safe journey or the fact that I have to leave my family? No.
As someone upthread said, no job is worth it

I hope you get in and home safely tomorrow and Friday. It's bloody awful.

Anyone who can stay off the roads and WFH should stay off the roads and stop being so bloody stupid.

why is the safety of health workers worth less than anyone else’s?

Please don't travel, postpone if possible.

We are heading from Wiltshire to Knutsford tomorrow, then Knutsford to Stirling on Friday morning.

DS and DDIL are heading Oxford to Stirling overnight Friday, can anyone tell me how bad it's likely to be then please.

Or leave now?

If you’re driving for pleasure/ social. I wouldn’t

It always seems to be the case and we get no more thanks for putting ourselves at risk and carrying on as usual.

This is what a read weather warning means. The Met Office don’t issue one lightly and when they do they really aren’t fucking around. He should refuse to travel in as his job is (I presume) non-essential.

We get less!!

Moved the bins round to the garage. My mum is in a real flood risk area. They have flooded several times so I'm away to help them move as much as they can to the upstairs.
The council has delivered sandbags.
The cats are being annoying because they want out but I want to keep them in.
DH has told his boss that either he works from home tomorrow or he will take a days holiday. He is supposed to be off next week anyway so it would just be moving things forward.
I'm hoping that the storm quickly moves out to sea.
Hopefully it won't be as bad for Laurencekirk as predicted.

Some years ago, in Hertfordshire, a severe weather warning was issued and all local government workers were sent home by 2 pm. I was concerned about the risks of being stuck in my workplace (a day/boarding school) and requested that the head close the school and allow early release of staff and kids. Denied. By school closing time (5 pm), the snow was lying thick and a blizzard was blowing. Parents were not informed of what the school was doing, and many were stuck on the roads trying to pick up kids. I set off home, but after being stuck in the snow-bound traffic for hours and chilled to the bone, managed to make it back to the school. The head had buggered off to his warm and cosy house adjacent to the school, and chaos reigned. Half of the staff and a number of kids needed to be fed and accommodated. Not enough beds, insufficient food, no means of soaking contacts, no heavy-duty sanitary products or change of underwear. Not the head's problem, apparently. Never ignore weather warnings.

Well done to your dh Mandy. Sensible man.

Years ago I had a boss who insisted I come in when the forecast was heavy snow. Duly went and kept an eye on what was happening outside. I had to put my foot down when it started absolutely belting down and even then she was bitching and moaning about me leaving. Took me NINE HOURS to get the 8 miles home in the end including having to leave my car on the outskirts of our village and hike though the snow. Hope your DH boss sees sense!

I hope my boss does too!!

Gah. Management sometimes is so crap. Beast from the east. I was a new partner, first female.
Emailing round. Let's close tomorrow (Friday) transfer phones tonight, put something in place.

Was shouted out the door. A week later we were back.

Some bosses are utter twats and on a constant bloody power trip (more and more of them these days, I genuinely don't know where they're being manufactured, if I did I'd probably sabotage the factory). Those of you in medical, education jobs etc, it's appalling how little employers care these days. Anyone remember the days when accommodation would often have been available on site for you?

We're working from home the next 2 days. Luckily it was not an issue, we were just told.

Totally off topic sorry but just curious - hockerill @pollyglot ??

Unless your patients are needing emergency or time critical surgery, I expect many of them would rather not travel in such dangerous conditions, either.

@Gottaworkwhatever I also do a job I have to be physically present for and involves emergency work. I understand your frustration. That said neither you nor I benefit from people who could usefully WFH being forced into the office when conditions are dangerous. In fact I'd go so far as to say I'd feel safer travelling on the roads in dangerous conditions knowing that as many as possible were keeping off them and out of my way.

Absolutely this. Does he have two years' service? If so, I'd tell the boss he's not going in.

It's more difficult with less than two years' service as there is no protection against unfair dismissal. This is why there should be day one protection in my view, to stop this sort of nonsense.

Red warnings mean stay at home unless your job is critical.