So after a major fuck up on the part of my employer during the first blizzard and forcing all their employees to work and then risk their lives getting home. My employer actually closed on Wednesday. I thought hey, they learned something, great! Only to get to work a day later and find a memo outlining the new storm policy followed by an long paragraph about the staff’s “bad attitude” during the first blizzard. You can’t just suck it up and admit that you fucked up without finding something to blame on your staff can you? You can’t police people’s thoughts. So much respect lost for the higher-ups. —snow covered
This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2014.
Went through the same thing, however the place closed at noon, but that memo on Bad Attitude would have pissed me off too. People get worked up wondering how to get home in a storm, bad driving, Transit that may or may not show up, or getting to work in the first place can cause stress on some.
An admission of fallibility? Some bosses just can’t go there.
Their new snow plan policy…
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks05wuwxrV1…
^^^
I adopted that motto and added: And I always have the right-of-way.
Ummm… you got snow day policy changed and a paragraph of nonsense and you’re focussing on the nonsense?
Suck it up buttercup, some people don’t get any snow days.
Here’s the thing. You should always be able to choose to put your own safety first. If you’re paid by the day, you may lose a day of pay. But if you cannot get to work safely, this is an issue that must be addressed.
If your boss insists you make it there, does he or she make any provisions (or did (s)he in the past) to make sure you get there and back safely?
SO WHAT HAPPENED THEN?
“So after a major fuck up on the part of my employer during the first blizzard and forcing all their employees to work and then risk their lives getting home.” Snow covered
This is not a sentence. It has no verb. At best it is an adverbial clause and at worst just a sentence fragment. In either case we will never know what happened because we will never know what your employer did after forcing all his employees to work and risking their lives getting home. What did he do? Did he stamp his foot?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
RWS in a fantasy world that would be nice but in the real world people have jobs to do regardless of the weather or dangers involved. Imagine a firefighter not fighting a fire because it is too dangerous or a soldier going to war and not fight or a cop not stopping crime because the criminal has a weapon. Further imagine health care workers who don’t go in to tend to their patients, or the people that clear the roads, etc, etc, etc.
Hitler had a Storm Policy, sadly the wheels, well, tank tracks, fell off in Stalingrad.
*long sigh* “Not much fun at Stalingrad. No.”
wrong country attempted to invade russia. the brits would have made-do at stalingrad. think of all the ice for the twosies G&T’s.
I think a company has the right to send out a memo about bad attitudes.. I’m sure someone in management got the brunt of peoples anger and those in management not only had to be at work and annoyed with being at work in the snow.. but they also had to deal with bad attitudes which made their day worse.. I don’t work in management but I have before and have had to deal with hostile employees and it sucks worse than a stupid snow storm
Unfortuately, that’s what you sign up for when you accept positions in management, jlneary. ^^
And there were a lot of unnecessary places open during that big storm when the buses shut down. I think if it’s bad enough to shut down buses, then there’s no reason in the world why you should be keeping your business open.
I’d have a ‘bad attitude’ too if I was at work and the buses stopped running and it’s a blizzard out there and I had no way to get home. And in some organizations, a ‘bad attitude’ could have just been employees expressing a legit issue. Some people who work in management have the attitude that they are doing you one big favour by allowing you to come to work and do work for them and if you don’t lick their arse, you have a ‘bad attitude.’
If an entire staffs attitude requires being addressed in a memo, the problem is likely with the owners or the management.
Fuck this province has become a bunch of weather weenies. It’s Canada, it’s winter, get over it.
work ethics have clearly gone down hill.
It is a basic, fundamental requirement for an employee to….SHOW UP FOR WORK!