Indecision, irresponsibility, and FUCKING DUMB

The BBQ Pit
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Please hold. Purging venom.

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Venom purged. We now return you to your regularly scheduled rant.

Employer: Why in the fuck didn’t you go ahead and announce the closing last night? Or even, perchance, this morning prior to 8?

I mean, the snow has closed the federal, state and local government offices, the schools, and tons of private businesses. Indeed, THIS is a school, nay, a university, so one might expect that it would do what the others have done and either:

  1. Delay opening to see if the weather will clear, or,
  2. Close.

Nope, not you guys. You made the announcement that everything would be open and classes would be on time.

Then you waited.

Waited to make the closing announcement until most of the employees were already on thier way to work, driving through this shitty weather.

Waited until students began to show up, having also driven through this shitty weather.

Waited until parents had made other arrangements to have thier kids watched.

Waited until people had walked from home.

Where’s the sense? Has it occurred to you that when all of the schools are closed almost every student and employee who is a parent has to arrange for someone to watch their kids? Did it, perhaps, penetrate your tiny little brain that the forecasts called for the snow to continue throughout the day?

DID YOU EVEN LOOK OUT THE FUCKING WINDOW AND SEE THAT THE CITY SNOW PLOWS COULDN’T KEEP UP WITH THE SNOW?

DID YOU? DID YOU? NO, YOU FUCKING DIDN’T, SO NOW I HAVE TO GET IN MY CAR AND DRIVE BACK THROUGH THE FUCKING SNOW TO GO HOME, AS DO THE REST OF THE EMPLOYEES WHO SHOWED UP, SOME NOT 10 MINUTES AGO.

ASSHOLES

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Lack of planning and foresight and common sense surely sucks.

I hopt you made it home okay.

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University’s suck during bad weather. My school refused to close, no matter how bad it got.

I still remember hearing on the news one winter: “Pretty much everything is closed… except UT Dallas.”

Bastards. :slight_smile:

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I’ll take “FUCKING DUMB” for 5000 please Alex.

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My university never closes either. Twice in the last seven years–one for September 11th–the state made them. Dammit, the school 100 yards from my driveway is closed. All of the schools within a 100 miles radius are closed. People are asked to stay off of the roads. Emergency vehicles are spinning out, and there are the students just behind the snowplows cursing the pres. of the university, the board of regents, the entire state of Ohio, Canada (where the cold air originates), and the entire jet stream. It’s a commuter school, people. Could you possibly consider that when you make these idiot decisions?

Sometimes, tho’ they let us go home after 3. whew. Since most of the classes are before 2, that’s ** incredibly ** helpful. :rolleyes:

Just waiting for the day when some sue-happy person sues them because they sustained major injuries because they were out driving when it wasn’t fit for man nor beast.

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I don’t suppose any of these are law schools, huh?

More’s the pity - I love it when law students sue their schools :smiley:

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Not that bad here yet.

But a couple of years ago, we had a major blizzard. Shut everything down. But did my place of business decide to close? No. Even though I work for the city, and the COUNTY had called a snow emergency, the city went down kicking and screaming. Maybe four employees had made it to work that day. Everyone else either called in before the emergency had actually been declared, or stayed home after they’d heard the news.

But. The next day, we get word that we’re not going to get paid for the day. Because City Hall *had never officially closed. * The employees went batshit. The county closed everyone down. The county said, “if we see you on the roads, you’ll be ticketed.” The majority of us couldn’t even get out of our driveways, let alone actually be on the roads for anything.

We did get paid, though…once the county got word that the plan was to not pay us. Why? Because the county said “what the hell? You, Mr. Mayor, signed and agreement with us, that in the event of a weather emergency, WE would make the call for all government employees, city, state, and even federal. See? Here’s the agreement. On paper. That’s your signature.”

So we got paid. But us city employees remembered that (amongst many other things) when there was a recall election a year later, and he was ousted. :slight_smile:

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You need a carriage return somewhere around “donkey”

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I’m sorry to say this, but what’s with all the people I’ve been reading rants from in the Pit who RISK THEIR LIVES to get to work (or stay there well past when it’s safe to do so) in weather bad enough to shut an entire city down?! Is it really worth your LIFE? Don’t think it can’t happen to you, because trust me, it most certainly can. If EMERGENCY vehicles can’t get through the streets, neither should you be trying to. Not for ANY reason short of life or death emergencies. FUCK the damn school/boss/company. The economy may not be the best and finding a new job may be extremely difficult, but fuck, I’d rather be ALIVE to look for one than DEAD without one anyway! What are you people thinking?

Oh, and before you suggest I walk a mile in your shoes – guess what – I have. I lived in St. Louis, Mo for 32 years and yes, once I stayed home in severe weather when everything else in the damn city was shut down, against the insistence of my asswad boss. He fired me. I flipped his stupid ass the bird and never looked back. I can’t respect ANYONE who would dare insist I risk my life for their benefit. Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Next time, just stay home!

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The old manager at Kmart once flipped out our up front manager when she was late to work during a snow storm-when she lived three hours away.

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Feel free to ship some of that snow up here. I’m about ready to rig a snow machine out of a vacuum cleaner and some bits of copper pipe…

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A former employer of mine (a telecommunications giant that rhymes with “HellMouth”) used to insist that all employees report to work regardless of weather. In 1993, Alabama was hit with the “storm of the century” – a blizzard that dumped 18 inches of snow across the state. Keep in mind, our state owns not one snowplow. Everything is shut down. It’s worth your life to try to drive on the icy, snow-covered roads.

And Sunday afternoon, I get a call from my boss reminding me to come in to work Monday.

I worked in the public relations office. Not something critical, like the central switching department or the line maintenance crews. Public relations. There wasn’t even any public around to relate to.

I get to work around 11:30 Monday morning, after spending an hour and a half slushing and surfing through the snow on the roads (which were all closed). Hey, I was young, and I was determined to do a good job for my employer.

Later that day, I learned that most insurance companies will not cover you for an accident on a closed road. I cheerfully told my boss to dock me vacation time until the snow melted, because I wasn’t coming in again until the roads were opened.

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I was supposed to appear in United States District Court today to testify against the fuckwit who totalled my car while he was fleeing the cops back in Oct.

Naturally, with the snowstorm pending, I was dying for this trial to get postponed. I was dreading waking up at 8am and driving through this shit to get there, not to mention the fact that I had stayed up til 4am drinking beer and indulging in Playstation.

So I wake up at 8, call the courthouse’s weather line, and I get:

“The court is open for business today”

I look out the window, looking at the snow and ice, utterly disbelieveing, but figure I better get ready to go anyway.

After showering and shaving, I call again:

“The court is open for business today”

So I figure: fuck it. I get dressed, have some coffee, and make my way outside to clean my car off and dig a path to drive through as best as I can. All of this is a major pain in the dick and takes about 30 minutes.

Finally, I’m on the road at 9:15, sliding all over the place and hating life and everything in it. I decide to stop at High’s for some coffee, and while I’m there, figure I better double-check that court line one more time…

“The court is closed today due to weather conditions”

Nice going, assholes. I manage to get back home and wind up sleeping til 4pm.

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Yeah, you need to pause for breath occasionally during those expositional tirades. It’s embarrassing to hyperventilate and pass out in the middle of a rant.

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Dude, are you my sock that I somehow don’t know about?
:wink:

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Welby, you wouldn’t be talking about George Mason would you?

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Shayna

Not only do I try to stay home when possible, but I will cancel class for my students, even when the university doesn’t. I was just bitching about the general irresponsibleness of the people who run universities.

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I worked for a lab with offices around the US.

Now, in Minnesota, it is rare for government offices to close due to weather, I mean we’re supposedly the friggin’ tundra and can deal with anything.

Minneapolis and Hennepin County closed. Everyone except emergency personnel sent home.

But not us, oh no! My boss stated “Just because WE have bad weather doesn’t mean our other labs do”

This is the same asshat who, when I called in because my daughter was barfing all over, waxed poetic about how wonderful their company was because they allowed employees to take time off when their children are ill…yadda yadda.

I was SO sad to leave their employ.

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When did you attend UTD? I don’t know how they might have been back in the olden days, but when I went there these past few years, it seemed like frost on the windshield was grounds for cancelling classes (not that I ever complained, of course.)

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I used to work for this crappy boutique in a mall back in the day.

Now, I live in California so I can’t relate to your snow woes but there was one time where we had one HELL of a rainstorm. There were crazy winds and you couldn’t see a foot past the hood of your car through the rain. I lived 45 minutes from said mall.

I tried to call in, but my bitch boss told me “you don’t come in, you quit.” Mind you, the only reason she was saying this was because I was supposed to relieve her. For $5.50 an hour, I told her she could take her stupid ass job and shove it up her ass, because I sure as hell wasn’t going to risk my life so that she could go home. When she asked me what the hell she was supposed to do I told her “you’re the manager…MANAGE!”

Almost as satisfying as when I told the ass-munches at this evil resteraunt I had the displeasure of working at for all of two weeks that they were a bunch of power-hungry nazi’s and that the next time I would be in would be when hell froze over.