"Snow Days" at the Office

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My office follows the federal government's status for office closure on snow days. My company has nicely put this in their handbook. So recently we were closed, the day after the big blizzard. Come to find out several weeks later that apparently "closed" does not mean "closed"....it means you should work from home(although that little tid-bit was left out of the employee handbook). Now granted there are a handful of people in the office, who are unable to work from home, i.e. no laptop....who were forced to take vacation time. I think that is wrong...just wrong. The one person who is enforcing it could have let the whole thing slide....but no.

When the fed is closed do the government employee's work from home?

Not all of them. My agency has a huge telework program---everyone on it was required to work from home the day of teh blizzard. Those that work onsite were not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed gov't employee, and no, when the fed gov't is closed, my agency doesn't require its employees to work from home.

Ummmm---this is not uniform across teh Feds. My agency DID require employees to work from home.

[Anonymous]

I think OP is misinterpreting what WORK from homes means, and I think her company is on to her. My SIL tries the same sh*t, also unsuccessful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is misinterpreting what WORK from homes means, and I think her company is on to her. My SIL tries the same sh*t, also unsuccessful.

For once, everyone, can you all just ignore the troll? Just don't respond to this one. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

WORK from home means putting in a certain number of hours into what you get paid to do, just reiterating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed gov't employee, and no, when the fed gov't is closed, my agency doesn't require its employees to work from home.

Ummmm---this is not uniform across teh Feds. My agency DID require employees to work from home.

My fed agency has a telework program that most people participate in. The problem that day was that we are only allowed to telework via our laptops so unless you had taken it home (and no one suggested that we do so) you could not work from home. The agency did not require or suggest that anyone needed to telework that day. In addition, even the people who were scheduled to be on leave were not required to use their leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

WORK from home means putting in a certain number of hours into what you get paid to do, just reiterating.

I think you idiots are misinterpreting the OP. I do believe she knows what "work" means.