View Poll Results: How many days have you missed due to snow this week?
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0 - No days missed
12 63.16% -
1 - One day missed, it was a bit heavy going.
2 10.53% -
2 - Two days missed
4 21.05% -
3 - Three days missed
0 0% -
4 - Four days missed
0 0% -
5 - I did the full week! It's like the Arctic circle here.
1 5.26%
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6th Feb 2009, 10:24 AM #1
Friday Poll No.36 - Snow Days Off
The conditions are treacherous, there's ice on the roads and the snow won't stop falling. The BBC have told you about travel chaos - misery for millions. The question is, can you make it to work? Indeed, should you struggle in when there's a risk you'll be trapped in your car for hours, freezing your hands off?
Is snow a no go?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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6th Feb 2009, 11:02 AM #2
One of the useful things about being able to walk to work is that I can usually make it whatever the weather. So I have this week, despite the treacherous, slippery, horrid pavements!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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6th Feb 2009, 12:02 PM #3
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Snow. The greatest friend the unemployed could have.
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6th Feb 2009, 12:05 PM #4
Frankly, I could have walked in today if there'd been anything that really needed doing in the office - as it is, there isn't, and I can do a fair amount of routine stuff from home (via Windows Remote Desktop Connection thingummy). Ditto Tuesday (so I've had two days off this week). To prove I'm not all talk, though, I really did walk into work on Wednesday, since the roads were still icy. Very nice it was too!
As regards the question more generally, if it's going to be dangerous to get to/from work then unless there's anything life-threatening that needs to be done, then it makes sense to me to stay home. Trouble is, of course, there will always be a minority who milk that and stay home at the merest hint of a snowflake, but that's life!
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6th Feb 2009, 12:21 PM #5
I walked to work today for confirmation that I will be being made redundant in a few weeks!
One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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6th Feb 2009, 1:50 PM #6
Oh dear, sorry to hear that!
Working from home is the greatest help AND hinderance to days off from bad weather there is! On the downside, you CAN always work, on the upside it's nice not to have the "challenge" of trying to get in because you have to. So I've been working all week as usual. In addition, I did actually make it into the Office on Wednesday (the day it all let up for 24 hours) and I was glad I did as it showed willing and it was quite productive (and nice to get out!).
Si.
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6th Feb 2009, 2:24 PM #7
Like Si I have been at work all week without leaving the house.
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6th Feb 2009, 11:11 PM #8
No days missed for me. The most challenging day was Monday when I got to work only to find that I was the only one that had! I stayed until lunchtime and then went home as a) it was no fun being on my own (probably against health & safety rules too!) and b) the snow just kept on coming and I had to make sure I cuold get home!
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7th Feb 2009, 3:25 PM #9
Right, let's see. Monday we were phoned and told the shift was cancelled, Wednesday we were sent home after doing just under half a shift, Friday morning, after much fuss and bother from our production manager we were eventually sent home at 5.30, the day shift were lucky that morning, their shift was cancelled altogether.
I've put down two shifts 'cos you haven't put one and a half in the poll.
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7th Feb 2009, 3:25 PM #10
0 - No days missed
The rest of you are wimpsAssume you're going to Win
Always have an Edge
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7th Feb 2009, 3:27 PM #11
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7th Feb 2009, 5:25 PM #12Captain Tancredi Guest
None at all- the buses have been very good, no doubt helped by some of the schools closing so they had drivers and buses left over from the school bus runs. Which is rather better than they do in the height of summer when they always seem to get their holiday roster wrong and the bus engines overheat.
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8th Feb 2009, 1:09 PM #13
@stephen
Assume you're going to Win
Always have an Edge
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8th Feb 2009, 1:34 PM #14
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8th Feb 2009, 1:35 PM #15
Is that the Roger Moore emoticon there Tim?
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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8th Feb 2009, 1:38 PM #16Wayne Guest
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8th Feb 2009, 1:39 PM #17
BTW- I like the new avatar Wayne. Very heroic!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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8th Feb 2009, 1:52 PM #18Wayne Guest
Thanks.
I pinched it from here.
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8th Feb 2009, 3:46 PM #19
only day I didn't go in was monday, but that was down to my own personal safety as not being very steady on my legs I have absoloutly no confidence in trying to walk during very bad weather for fear of falling over.
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9th Feb 2009, 1:46 PM #20
I missed one day (Monday 2nd), as the road between here and there is terrifying at the best of times. I don't ride my motorcycle in the snow!
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