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Sweet jesus!!
Reminds me of the days when I was younger, the country as a whole might not have had a sustained snowfall, but it was still far worse where im from, than it is most places at the minute.
Fair enough there was abit of snow and it was icy, fair enough it is dangerous on the roads, especially those that aren't gritted, and fair enough some people live out in the sticks or on top of hills etc, but some members of staff totally took advantage.
I managed to get to work yesterday and today at the normal time, I de-iced my car, scraped the snow off the car and left that little bit earlier, driving a little slower and wearing sensible footwear to make walking across icy pavements when walking easier. I think people in Plymouth need to get a grip! Did hear the awful story about the incident in Efford Lane though, and my hubby had a scary incident in his works car park!
It is because of comments like this that I am panicing about going back into work tomorrow. . . . .incase people think I took the mic.
I live in a cul de sac, and once you get out of that cul de sac, a narrow road, where cars double park.
I shovelled 7 inches of snow round my car, de-iced etc, but with all the will in the world, could not get my car to go where i wanted it to as my close was like an ice rink.
Walk...? Too far.
Bus...? All cancelled/limited service
Taxi....? Only 6 in this area were prepared to work and were stretched to the limit, and would have cost as much as I have lost taking a day of unpaid leave.
I can understand gettin frustrated with people who pop to she shop for milk in their cars.
But as for them building snowmen? That could have been in their garden, a local field....may have been a huge difference getting to there, than to work.
I dont blame/judge ANYONE for stayin off work. If you wanna risk it and drive, good for you. But I have heard of 3 bad crashes, and to me, taking a couple days off is more feasible than putting myself in danger when I am not a confident driver as it is!!
I agree completely.
Why? My dad drives a van for a living and that can be dangerous in snow - especially when he's got tons of fish too. Mum has slipped out on the roads a few times too.
Our roads haven't been gritted either because we are in a tiny village in Hampshire, it's only 30 mins to work, but 10 of it is to get to the main road- and on tiny non-gritted country roads, i didn't wanna chance it.
Thou i did call into work today and txt my boss- no response whatsoever so meh! lol
Me neither.
A good proportion of people won't get paid for snow days anyway, so it's not really taking the piss. Round here, even where it looks fine, there's a lot of black ice on the roads, and it wouldn't take much to send you skidding off somewhere.
Now I've finally got my car off my drive and up the road (note that it took an hour, a shovel, a bag of grit and two strapping young men pushing to achieve this) I will probably attempt to get to work tomorrow, but if it's looking too hairy along the way, I'll turn back, and if my boss doesn't like it, it's tough shit. I'm not risking my safety for it.
If he's that bothered he should pay me more, and then I could buy an oldschool Landrover for such artic adventures, cause driving a Ford KA at the moment is a bit like driving a rollerskate round an ice rink
Really did not like driving in it! Hardley anyone could get to work...they had to resort to sending out rescue 4x4 for night staff and offering people beds in the Dr's mess who couldn't get home!
Tbh, its not too bad where we are, the bus service is running to town and back so at least I can get about even if i would prefer to be driving myself.
but not liking the temperature, as our boiler has stopped working so no heating
will be very cold in a bit (it's only been broken anout 3 hours so far)
booo!
Another pic from before. its sideways lol
http://yfrog.com/41010710164918j
Woah!
I do like snow I am fed up of it now though. The snow from before christmas started to melt and slide off the roof, which also brought the drain pipe down.
We still have a lot, the roads are all ice so I prefer to trudge my way through the snow on the pavements now.
Google weather says it's -10 but the car temperature thing says -4 lol. Still, it's freezing. We have some amazing icicles too
Eugh.
Heh - idiots.
My parents had the same trouble and managed to thaw the pipes with a hairdryer and a wheat bag!
For those who can't see my point though I would just like to put this to you; how would you like it if you had an emergency and called 999 but there was no operator to answer as they were all snowed in? Or you went to hosptial and there were no nurses or doctors as they were all snowed in? Or your house was on fire but there were no firemen to help? My point is that we need to just make that little bit of effort to get into work in times like this, the country cannot function without people working obviously!
Edited to add that some staff started later than normal on thursday and left early- by mid morning the roads and pavements in many areas are far less hazardous than in the early morning so what is the excuse for staying off all day?
But that's not that same thing at all. I'm not talking about people skiving (which people find a way to do about lots of things other than snow). I'm talking about people making judgement calls about whether the risk they are taking outweighs the importance of them getting to work.
Obviously some people did take the piss, but just because a person doesn't get their waders on and hike the 16 miles to work (cause for a lot of people, both driving and public transport weren't just hard, they were an impossibility), doesn't mean that they're not 'making the effort'.
Yup. Basically the only bus running today and yesterday was the one going to the hospital. I was forced to come in to work today because I do live walking distance (the snow here is around 3 inches right now, was about 2 inches this morning and I left my house at 6am to get to work) but because I work in the city centre and nobody else could get there, I was let home early because we had no customers. On a Saturday. With sales going on.
I refused to do it at 5am tomorrow (when there ARE no buses, the taxis aren't running anyway and it would have been more because it's a Sunday, and the snow is supposed to be coming down HARD tonight) because my health is more important than whether they're a person short, quite frankly.
The city centre was dead. We had like no customers at all. At our busiest we had like 3 people in the queue.
P.S. you should totally come and stalk me one day
For now anyway.