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Sleet/Freezing Rain Day

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Eoywin

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Everyone is calling today a 'snow day' - but now there isn't any snow - it all was washed away by the 'wintery mix'!

 

This morning I get up, and look outside - there is a little bit of snow on Todd's but it didn't look icy, so I got dressed and went to work. The roads were fine.

 

Well, about an hour after I got to work, it started sleeting out, and kept sleeting. In my department, we were debating on what to do (my boss's mom and husband kept calling her, telling her to come home), all the higher ups started paging each other.

 

People who've been there longer than me (which is just about everyone), said that they were probably going to shut down because of the weather, which they did end up shutting the whole company down.

 

I nearly fell on my butt leaving work (it is darn icy out there), but the drive home wasn't too bad. I only slipped once, and that was when I was nearing home. The highway wasn't fun though, since semi's kept passing me.

 

So, it sucks because I only worked 2 hours today, but I'm glad I work for a company that puts the safety of their employees first.

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Sleet and ice are scary. An ice storm can be pretty to look at from the inside, but it's so deadly. I walk to work, and even though the entire path is the responsibility of the Environmenta Maintenance people for our city, they ALWAYS leave the section of the path in front of the poor neighborhood unsalted and sometimes just do a cursory snow scrape, which is worse. What happens is they leave a thin layer of snow, which quickly melts, and turns that section of the path into an ice skating rink. I have to hold onto the wire mesh of the gate on either side in order to keep from dying.

 

You don't sound happy to have only had to work two hours today. Will you lose money over it? I always like unexpected days off, but I am an hourly wage earner, so I don't like too many of them or it digs into my pay.

 

Hope you're keeping warm and slip free.

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I'm hourly too - so I won't get paid for those missing hours :(

 

But I'm glad to not have to be trying to drive home in this mess at 5 tonight :)

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