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To not go into work today?

55 replies

VinegarTits · 05/01/2010 05:06

Here are my excuses reasons:

  1. Its 5 am and i am wide awake because i am wheezing and my inhaler as run out of gas, so i am never going to get back to sleep now, hence i will be tired all day
  1. It has snowed, thick thick snow, at least 5 inches from what i can see, so my hour commute will be a nightmare and probably take 1.5 hrs

Or am i just being a wimp?

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VinegarTits · 05/01/2010 05:16

Anyone up? i need to make a decision and maybe try to get some sleep if i am going in?

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ErikaMaye · 05/01/2010 05:17

Seems reasonable to me!

zippyzapper · 05/01/2010 05:18

duvet day for you - enjoy

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VinegarTits · 05/01/2010 05:25

ah thankyou

i will have to take a holiday though and it does seem like a waste of a holiday and not a good way to start off the new year, second day back at work and already wimping out

i need to not feel guilty about it even though it does seem reasonable to me too

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mumof2point5 · 05/01/2010 05:26

defo duvet day!

eandh · 05/01/2010 05:32

defo duvet day and get yourself a repeat prescription for inhaler too I have been awake on and off since 1am for no reason at all and I know I am going to feel so tired later

Madascheese · 05/01/2010 07:10

We're not going to work/nursery either mostly because of the snow.

I'm working from home all week and DS wants some time at home.

Don't feel bad about it, sometimes duvet days are the only option, life is too short, take care of yourself.

xMad

PS FWIW I have a policy of 'allowing' myself a couple of bugger it days each year when I just give up and go 'bugger it I'm staying at home'

Northernlebkuchen · 05/01/2010 07:23

Well driving a long way in rubbish conditions would be a very bad idea when you're tired so I don't think yabu as long as you take it as holiday - and that's your plan so fair enough. Agree you need to use today to sort out the prescription though

thesecondcoming · 05/01/2010 07:46

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FlightAttendant · 05/01/2010 07:48

Sorry I would go! But I am funny like that

I would feel the karma all year day if I didn't.

Hope you feel better though x

blueshoes · 05/01/2010 08:31

Do you have the realistic option of working from home? If so, you don't need to waste a day's leave.

ThumbleBells · 05/01/2010 08:37

too risky to make a long journey without a functional inhaler - I hope you stayed home.

ginnybag · 05/01/2010 08:42

I very much wanted my hubby to do this today. We're just outside Manc and have had shed loads of snow overnight. The roads are shocking and his little Megane coupe just isn't built for these conditions.

But, no....

He's right - if he can get to work, then he should - but that doesn't stop me feeling that there should come a point when enough is enough.

Of course, it doesn't help that I'm 39+5 pregnant and the silly sod lovely man blithely announced that he'd forgotten to charge his mobile last night... again!

Take today and sort the prescription. And be prepared to be moaned at by your GP's receptionist for making her push it through at the last minute!

alypaly · 05/01/2010 08:47

swept the drive last night and its now 8 inches deep and still falling..oooohhh its beautiful. Not taking DS2 to his work experience today at the vets as its an hours drive and it would be stupid too.Roads are vhaos....manchester airport is closed and cars and lorries cant get over Barton bridge so its a stay at home and make some homemade soup today and use the stale bread for croutons. Bacon,tomato and lentil soup going on the boil fairly soon....hmmmmmmmm Dont feel too bad as no one will go to the vets with their animals anyway unless they are desperate.

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alypaly · 05/01/2010 09:02

just got a text from school to say its closed...thats efficient as they dont go back till tomorrow

agedknees · 05/01/2010 09:21

I live in Central Manchester. We tried to get out at 6.45am - had to get out and push the car 3 times, and also pushed other peoples cars for them.

dh is working from home now. We are having a slightly heated discussion on who should go to the shop and get some bread and milk (bet its me who goes as dh is working!!!)

Feel guilty about now getting into work, but the M6 looked like hell, and the small roads where we live are impassable.

Just hope I can get in tomorrow.

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VinegarTits · 05/01/2010 09:22

I didnt go to work, the roads and motorways are horrendous so i would actually be risking my life and its just not worth it

I dont feel to bad as i am not the only one who didnt make it into work, a colleague who lives in Manchester phoned in too, and another colleague didnt make it because another car skidded on the ice and hit his parked car, it really is bad out there!

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MarthaFarquhar · 05/01/2010 09:31

another snowed-in Mancunian here. Dropped DD at nursery at the end of the street at 8.15. Collected her at 8.45, as in the intervening half hour I failed to dig my car out enough to get it moving. I feel like a bit of a fraud, as the main road behind us is okayish, but no-one on my street can get the 150 yards up the hill to get onto it. DH took the bus into work at 6am, but apparently they've stopped now. If they don't get going again he'll be walking back from Beswick to Prestwich.

WidowWadman · 05/01/2010 09:34

I'm in York. left the house at quarter past 7 to try and get the daughter to nursery, about 4 miles from where I live on the other side of town. After 45 minutes in traffic I gave up and turned round to go home. I would have had to drive another 30 miles to get to work after dropping her off and it just didn't feel safe.

Hando · 05/01/2010 09:45

I wouldn't go if it were dangerous conditions. If I drove and it was dangerous on the roads then I wouldn't even attempt it - especially if I had a child to take with me.

If it were just me and I was using public transport then I'd make every effort. Not if I were ill though, and certainly not without a working inhaler.

Hope you have a LOVELY lazy day.

Why do people feel guilty having the odd day off? Unless if disadvantages someone in a big way - ie. your a social worker and a child is relying on you for a meeting today or something else "important" to others then I would never feel guilty about the odd day off. It's not like you take the pee and take week and weeks off.

ginnybag · 05/01/2010 09:46

There do seem to be more of us than you'd think!

Finally took DH and hour and a half to get from Heywood to Chadderton (usually twenty minutes) and I seriously am wondering if he'll be able to get home, cause it's still snowing!

If it's like this tomorrow, he's not going. Sorry, but it's not bloody safe and it's not worth the risk!

browntrout · 05/01/2010 09:51

south manchester here and schools closed etc. am on mat leave at the mo though so not too much of a nightmare. i dont recall snow like this ever....

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VinegarTits · 05/01/2010 09:55

Another reason why i am glad i didnt go to work, if i couldnt make it back home again then i would be buggered, no money to be able to afford a hotel overnight and no dp/dh to look after my ds if i didnt make it back

why do men insist on braving these hazardous conditions to get to work?

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