Employers making us stay til 3pm. Spouse thinks they are putting me in danger

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Snow ain't gonna kill you, it's not going to amass to much until tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:Snow ain't gonna kill you, it's not going to amass to much until tomorrow.

Meh. Not having an employee around for three hours to surf the web and post on DCUM isn't going to kill the company either. Hopefully OP has left by now.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I am working today until 6pm, then working tomorrow and Sunday from 6am til 6pm both days.
My employer is putting me up in a hotel so I dont have to drive but i still wont see my wife and 3yo for 3 days, all thanks to the blizzard.
Suck it up.

I am not a nurse, an EMT, a cop, or anything important.... you are lucky you have a hotel and I'm sorry you won't see your family but at least you WILL BE SAFE IN A HOTEL OR AT YOUR WORKPLACE.

Your wife is going to be stuck alone with a 3 year old for 3 days? You are a terrible husband and father.

For pete's sake, my husband is traveling. He left the day of the blizzard knowing that it was coming and that he wouldn't make it back on Saturday as planned. He's bummed and I am too. I'll manage despite having a 3 year old and an older child. My husband is not terrible, nor is PP.

OP is in a tough spot. So sorry that I don't have any words of wisdom to add here. Just stay safe. Good luck to you!

Your kids will stay in the hotel?

Actually your husband is at the very least being selfish. He won't change his travel plans but will leave you in a blizzard with two young kids. Sounds like a sweetheart.

Wrong. I encouraged him to go. We are well-prepared. I'm from New England and quite comfortable dealing with large snowstorms. Maybe you aren't and it would be selfish and terrible for your spouse to leave you. That's fine and understandable. But there's no need to malign other people's spouses in circumstances that you can't begin to know.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, however this turns out, you need a new job! What type of work do you do? ie. bookkeeping, sales, marketing, etc.? We have a couple of openings at my office - which already told everyone to telework, starting last night!

Yes I do. Admin work. Leads are welcome.

Our salary range is not great. But we totally pay for your health insurance/dental, get lots of vacation, close the office for a week at Xmas! and don't make people work during blizzards and hurricanes.

What salary range are you looking for?

What is "not great" I don't ask for much.

40k

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Anonymous wrote:Snow ain't gonna kill you, it's not going to amass to much until tomorrow.

Actually, not necessarily true. A co-worker of my mother's was killed in a traffic accident after staying at work on Wednesday when it snowed just a tiny bit.

I recognize that this is not the normal consequence of such an action, but it was really sad. And it can happen, which is why we exercise caution in this type of weather.

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Anonymous wrote:I am truly disgusted and sick to my stomach right now. They won't let me leave. I already asked.

There is no "let" here. You are an adult.

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Let me tell you a story.

Some years ago I was interviewing for a job at Bank of America. I flew into Charlotte and checked into my room. I set an alarm on my phone for 7am and went to bed. At 6am I got a wake up call, didn't think anything of it immediately and went downstairs for breakfast, where I ran into anther friend also interviewing. He joked that I had set up his wake up call and that's when we figured out the company had done so for us. Kind of weird - can't you trust candidates to get themselves up for an interview?

Fast forward to lunch - interviews are done and we are supposed to have lunch with employees. For whatever reason there aren't enough employees to have one at every table so I'm just eating lunch with other candidates. My flight was at 7pm though so I had lots of time to kill - I check to see if there are earlier flights, and there one at 4. Realizing I'm done for the day anyway, I go find the recruiter and excuse myself, thanking him for the opportunity to interview. He replies "Lunch isn't done yet, you can't leave". I explain there are no employees at my table, so there's little benefit to staying and I'd prefer to make the earlier flight. He repeats his assertion. Stunned and unsure what to do, I go back to the table. The other candidates are confused and perplexed by my story. It then dawns on me how ridiculous this is and I get up, wave goodbye to the recruiter and leave.

I got the job offer anyway (and turned it down).

They don't own you. Go.

I like this story. I am wondering if you and the other candidates were right out of college when you interviewed there. I also received this kind of treatment when I was interviewing for jobs after receiving my degree. We were treated like children and it was bizarre.

[Anonymous]

My DH is stuck at work until 3:30 he has coworkers who are there until 5. At worst they will put them up in hotels if it isn't safe to go home. Unfortunately, some jobs just have to get done in the office and can't wait. It does suck though.

If you don't have one of those jobs, making staff stay is pretty hard to justify. Of course, probably some of us who have been saying that it sucks for you to be stuck at work are also taking advantage of others being stuck at work when we go to Starbucks, CVS, Safeway etc and those stores are open and staffed.

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OMG Op is a drama queen. I just left work and it's not even that Coke or snowing that hard. In many parts of the country this would be considered a light dusting. Get a grip!

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People have lost the work ethic.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I am working today until 6pm, then working tomorrow and Sunday from 6am til 6pm both days.
My employer is putting me up in a hotel so I dont have to drive but i still wont see my wife and 3yo for 3 days, all thanks to the blizzard.
Suck it up.

I am not a nurse, an EMT, a cop, or anything important.... you are lucky you have a hotel and I'm sorry you won't see your family but at least you WILL BE SAFE IN A HOTEL OR AT YOUR WORKPLACE.

Your wife is going to be stuck alone with a 3 year old for 3 days? You are a terrible husband and father.

That's a ridiculous thing to say - women are not helpless and a job is important to a family as well.
And if he is working those hours the job is most likely important to many other people as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't leave at noon-- leave at 11:30. Once the federal government lets out, there is going to be a cl@sterf@ck, especially if it is snowing.

Seriously now is the time to say "I'm putting in for 4 hours leave. I need to leave at 11:30 because I don't think I can get home safely if I leave any later." Put it in writing (ie, email it). If need be CC: their manager. No one really wants the responsibility of holding employees who are not absolutely essential, and then having them get into an accident.

OP here. They are the owners. There is no HR!

Do what they say. Then look for another job as soon as you can that is awful.
Is this a little grocery store or shop or something like that ?

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Anonymous wrote:People have lost the work ethic.

No one should have a 'work ethic' that involves doing something they consider unsafe. If we've lost that then good. About time.

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the 1,000 reasons why I will never support a Republican candidate on any level. We need much more progressive workplace laws to address creepy sounding employers like this.

Wow. You are itching to start somethibg aren't you?

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the 1,000 reasons why I will never support a Republican candidate on any level. We need much more progressive workplace laws to address creepy sounding employers like this.

I look forward to becoming an economy like Greece where they young (if they can find jobs) have to support the pensions of people that retire at 50 and live to 90 plus pay taxes

THat's a real good idea.

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the 1,000 reasons why I will never support a Republican candidate on any level. We need much more progressive workplace laws to address creepy sounding employers like this.

I look forward to becoming an economy like Greece where they young (if they can find jobs) have to support the pensions of people that retire at 50 and live to 90 plus pay taxes

THat's a real good idea.

NP here. It's not workplace protections that got Greece into trouble.