Snow Day Policy

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tallgirl said:
Don't tell him that.

So, if I understand Bob correctly, companies should never declare plant closings because then employees who are afraid of the snow will have to take vacation days instead of being paid for the day off?
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That's the approach. Except for The Blizzard of '78 when Governor Dukakis (better known for furloughing murder Willy Horton who then raped and robbed in Maryland, before losing to George Herbert Walker Bush) "closed" the state, I think we had only one official closing in my 37 years with the company.
 
muskiedog said:
I would be doing 55 mph and texans would be doing 10 mph and be in the ditch.
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Ah, the memories. When I was an undergrad I had an apartment in Arlington TX right across the street from the GM plant there. Had an ice storm one night, and when the shift let out I watched out my window as the cars left the GM lot and slid across the street into our parking lot. I thought it was funny until one of them slid into my car...

Probably no accident that I later moved to a city with the best snow removal crews in the world. :)
 
ceknight said:
Ah, the memories. When I was an undergrad I had an apartment in Arlington TX right across the street from the GM plant there. Had an ice storm one night, and when the shift let out I watched out my window as the cars left the GM lot and slid across the street into our parking lot. I thought it was funny until one of them slid into my car...
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I loved winters in Dallas (Plano, actually, for anyone who knows the area).

One winter -- '87/'88, I think -- I was working for an oil company with a production field about 50 miles west of here (where I am now ...) in the Austin Chalk. We had a 9600 baud dedicated line between the office in Dallas and the office in Giddings.

There were certain things that had to be done on a regular basis, and there was no one "able" to get into the office. Except for me and my snow chains. I spent the snow time driving around town watching gray haired old people in their Caddy's sliding all over the place. It was fun.
 
A friend of mine from NY used to say he knew it was bad when he came home from work and all of the neighbors cars were parked at the bottom of the hill, so he would just pull over and park and walk home from there because he figured someone else must have already tried and failed to get up it.

Another friend tells about driving in a blizzard in Iowa. He said he was keeping the phone poles in sight on the right side of the truck until he realized that going in that direction the poles should be on the left side of the truck, and that was about the same time he found the creek. Had to walk five mile home is sub-zero temps and high winds, said it cost him a 10x Stetson hat that blew off and a mustache.
 
jeff43222 said:
Sometimes when it's on the ground, you may see yellow spots. Don't eat those. :D
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"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow!" ~ Frank Zappa
 
If the foreman can make it , then so can everyone else.
If conditions are really bad then go home w/two hours show up pay.
 
tallgirl said:
Except for me and my snow chains.
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I don't leave home without them! Especially when the wind be blowin over the lake and be puttin it in your driveway (otherwise called lake effect snow).:grin:
 
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