Snow stops worker getting in to work.

[Hooli]

I get pissed off at the amount of people who pretend it's difficult to get into work due a little bit of snow. They should have to loose a days holiday or take it unpaid.

[obob]

I love not being able to go in, I work from home but spend most of the day sledging.

[eccles]

If we can't get in we loose a days pay, if the company send us home, they pay us as normal. Working from home is not really an option as large menacing helicopter in the front garden tends to scare the neighbours!

[gingerpaul]

Is Pies snowed in? [/old guard]

[Mobsta]

Hooli said:

I get pissed off at the amount of people who pretend it's difficult to get into work due a little bit of snow. They should have to loose a days holiday or take it unpaid.

+1

To my ear, the scenario sounds akin to someone who has spent their life in the desert, and taking the day off, due to half an hours drizzle for the first time in 2 years.

If the individual were a witch and was running the risk of melting however...

[crankedup]

eccles said:

If we can't get in we loose a days pay, if the company send us home, they pay us as normal. Working from home is not really an option as large menacing helicopter in the front garden tends to scare the neighbours!

Eccles, do you work on the commercials or MOD? Just curious.

[LHD]

I love the 'i'm snowed in' excuse.

I'll come pick you up. In the Defender...

[Johnnytheboy]

jas xjr said:

weird how people who have to drive for an hour make it into work the locals tend not to

Yep, me and my colleague in a connected department have the worst bad weather commutes without a doubt.

And yet we are the ones people ring who can't get in.

We make them take a day unpaid or take it as leave if they'd prefer.

[jas xjr]

When I worked at Toyota we had an attendance bonus . To get the maximum you had to have perfect attendance over a twelve week period . Never missed despite the weather . To the company owning ph'er it might not be much but it was a few hundred quid

[phil-sti]

Puggit said:

Big E 118 said:

I think this is the link: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/snowing-day-off-1...

All my staff are in walking distance, no excuses!

This I didn't know: Q: The school my children go to has closed because of cold weather and I have no childcare arrangements. Can my employer force me to take the time off as holiday?

You have no reason to feel guilty or panic, under the employment rights act 1996, an employee is entitled to take a reasonable amount of time off work because of an unexpected disruption to childcare arrangements.

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But there is no obligation to pay you.

[Irish]

I live in London - a few years back I put on my hiking boots and walked the 4 miles to work. Many of the locals claimed to be stranded.....in W1.....

[eccles]

crankedup said:

Eccles, do you work on the commercials or MOD? Just curious.

Nasty Mod ones that you see buzzing around your area painted a fetching shade of green.

[HaplessBoyLard]

LHD said:

I'll come pick you up. In the Defender...

Feel free!

If someone from work was willing to come and get me, I'd happily go in today. As it stands I can barely get off my estate because the hill out is blocked by stranded cars, and from traffic reports it looks like the A47 is carnage.

I'm not risking it in my own car for the sake of a few hours where we'll get nothing done, and work have just rung to say don't bother trying.

Back to bed for me.

[crankedup]

jas xjr said:

When I worked at Toyota we had an attendance bonus . To get the maximum you had to have perfect attendance over a twelve week period . Never missed despite the weather . To the company owning ph'er it might not be much but it was a few hundred quid

Its not even a difficult policy to introduce either, I would love a glance at the books on this one.

Time and time over its been shown that clever reward schemes which need not cost much cash, worker inclusion into the Company both add to Company profits. Even SME could use policies and most likely benefit. You need only have a glance at our overseas competitors for judgement on success. For the main here in the U.K. its still them v us.

[IroningMan]

crankedup said:

jas xjr said:

When I worked at Toyota we had an attendance bonus . To get the maximum you had to have perfect attendance over a twelve week period . Never missed despite the weather . To the company owning ph'er it might not be much but it was a few hundred quid

Its not even a difficult policy to introduce either, I would love a glance at the books on this one.

Time and time over its been shown that clever reward schemes which need not cost much cash, worker inclusion into the Company both add to Company profits. Even SME could use policies and most likely benefit. You need only have a glance at our overseas competitors for judgement on success. For the main here in the U.K. its still them v us.

I've mooted an attendance bonus in the past - and it's been rejected on the grounds that it's 'unfair to those with poor health'.

[speedchick]

Only ever missed work once due to snow, I was working at a function place, the road between us was clear (could see it from the house), but couldn't get out of the house and to the road. He wasn't happy about it, but I wasn't risking it for the sake of a poxy £2.50 an hour.

Now, at the place I work at, we work to bare bones, and I know that if I phone in, then it's gonna inconvenience whoever has to cover my shift, and I work in a lovely team and wouldn't want to do that to them, the only (none holiday) time I have taken off have been exceptional (flu and coming off my bike).

Not sure what the company policy is, I do know there is a poster up at work, but have forgotten what it says, probably something along the lines of staff not putting their lives at risk to get to work. I do kind of feel sorry for the store manager as he has to travel from Halifax to Burnley (he's had fun recently with the rain)

[Pickled]

Self employment, is great motivator to not have sick days and 'unable to get to work because of...' days.

Many years ago (back in the 80s), I worked in the print, and we used to get £40 a week good time keeping bonus, we were allowed 15 minutes leeway each week, hardly anyone was ever late.

[toohuge]

I worked in central Cambridge for a while and as I cycled to work it was not a problem when it snowed.

Upon arriving at work, so many 'couldn't' make it in that there was nothing to do anyway!

Interestingly, when I worked at a car dealership, everyone made it in, although the cost to the company in car damage was enormous (mostly deliberate too )
Chris

[fido]

So there you have it - if you want near 100% attendance .. employ shareholders, contractors (self-employed) or provide them with a free set of wheels (ideally something 4WD)!