I can't get to work - Need advice ASAP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you get to an el station? Those are running fine as is the bus service in many areas of the city from what I've heard from numerous people. I know many of the side streets in the city are still buried in snow, but the main roads are relatively ok. I'm in the suburbs and most of our roads were ok this morning. Slick, but doable. Good luck OP.

Stop to grab something for lunch and to regroup. Hopefully you'll make it to public transportation soon that can get you to work.

Out of curiosity, what area of the city are you coming from that has public transportation shut down?

Park Ridge area. I'm traveling from Park Ridge to Wrigley area.

[Anonymous]

At this point have you at Least told them you aren't coming in?

[Anonymous]

I felt badly for the nanny until she said she missed 4 days in her first 5 weeks of work. of COURSE they are annoyed. this was a storm that everybody knew was coming - albeit more than they thought was coming, but still had fair warning - and OP spent the night 30 mins further from her house. if this was the very first day you missed I would think the employers would be understanding but since you have a 4 day workweek every week due to "serious illness" (those are in quotes because I'm being SUPER sarcastic about the seriousness) I would be pretty pissed too.

- signed, a nanny

ps - you give all of us a bad name. find a new job and actually show up for it

[Anonymous]

Why didn't you walk to a Metra station and take that into the city? You could have gotten off at either Irving Park or OTC and then taken either buses or the el the remainder of the way. How far from the Metra station is your mother's house?

[Anonymous]

Admit it. You got it in your head that everyone was going to get snowed in today and you reached a point where you counted on it and were surprised this morning to learn that your employers actually want you to show up to work, as agreed, scheduled and planned. Shocker. You're not in elementary school, honey, hoping that school will be closed due to snow. You planned poorly and were surprised when you learned that the expectation was that you'd still show up as scheduled. Sigh. Welcome to the adult world. And the walking through the snow crap is just that, crap. You thought saying that would get them to tell you to just stay home. You need to put your big girl pants on and tell them that you either can't make it or if you can get there, what time they can expect you.

I'm inclined to agree with this poster. It really wasn't a good idea to go to your mom's so far away when you knew a storm was coming and you knew you were already making a bad impression by taking so many days off so early in a new job.

You say you've been trying to get to work since 6:30am. If this were true, you'd be there. In your OP, you said you could walk to a bus closer to them in an hour. Why didn't you do that at 7am? Then you said you could walk in 2.5 hours (it's a little hard to believe but whatever). If you had done that at 7am, you would only have been a half hour late. Of course, you never intended on walking, although you said you were walking when you posted at noon.

You never had any intention of going into work, so you should have been honest with your employers at 9am instead of stringing them along with fake stories of how hard you are trying to get there. You aren't and it sounds like they know it and moved on. They've already either decided to either put up with you or fire you. You'll find out soon enough. But what you are expecting of them is unreasonable. You're texting all day expecting them to tell you it's fine and not to worry or something else to make you feel better for not meeting your responsibilities. They don't have to make you feel better for failing to be at work.

The really annoying thing about your posts, OP, is that it's pretty obvious that you are also looking for everyone here to make you feel better and to tell you how horrible your bosses are for expecting you at work. So far, your bosses sound pretty good. They haven't fired you outright and they even tried to research for you a way out a problem you created. The only thing they have not done is make you feel better. I don't blame them for that. You live in an area with snow heavy winters and life doesn't stop in areas with severe weather. It was on you to make sure you were accommodating a forecasted storm, and instead you traveled 30 miles away.

[Anonymous]

And if you are "walking" there still, please do yourself a favor and don't arrive ready to yammer on and on about how hard it was to get to their house, how hard you worked to get there, how you persevered. martyr, martyr, martyr. Trust me, they don't want to hear it and it won't make them feel better about you. It will make them feel worse about you.

[Anonymous]

It's Chicago. I'm from there. You know it snows 5 months of the year, you own the gear, you wake up early shovel, access the situation for driving, busses, subway, etc. and make reasonable efforts to get to work.
What you don't do, is sit home looking out the window. There were many days that school was canceled but I still commuted and worked.
If the city (which is well-equipped for winter and snow and cold) was truly not transportable and I tried/assessed a few things, THEN I called my boss and updated them.
The last thing I would do as a nanny or any employee is scream 'fire' everytime I saw a snowflake.

Besides, it snowed all day Sunday and then stopped. That same snow system has been over Boston since 3am ET, so what's the issue this AM? or can you go in by noon? Anything should help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am very serious about my work and I will not defend myself on this forum. I went to moms for a very good reason as she is in very ill health. The storm wasnt expected to be this bad. I realize it shows me as irresponsible but I have never been before in any past job. This is defiantly a bout of very bad luck.

I have called MB & DB but they never pick up. They will only text me. I feel pretty horrible and I have been trying since 6:30am to get there. I have yet to succeed.

Sounds like your mom's health will continue to tie you up and affect your reliability as a full-time childcare provider.

Sunday we were shoveling every few hours during the day. Everyone knew that and you could tell by looking out your window and seeing the accumulation.

[Anonymous]

I walked to work in NYC last week during "the storm of the century". I'm a city employee, the trains/buses weren't running, yet those of us in the legal dept were expected to make it in. Granted it was not as bad as they predicted but still, nothing was running, we still had to work... those who didn't make it lost a leave day.

You were hoping for a snow day, didn't get one, and are still angling... either start walking or just tell the poor people you're not coming in.

[Anonymous]

Try Uber. Pay up.

[Anonymous]

* and my walk was 3.5 miles which took from about 7:45am to 9:15am. It wasn't fun, but I did it.

[Anonymous]

yep, everyone in manhattan had to go in that day. was kind of fun walking down the middle of the street with everybody....

[Anonymous]

Choose: maybe lose your life or job? If you work for cretins who insist you walk to work, QUIT. They are craxy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Choose: maybe lose your life or job? If you work for cretins who insist you walk to work, QUIT. They are craxy.

Ok troll clearly you didn't read closely.

[Anonymous]

Wow, OP, I'm sorry. Nobody should have to do a walk to work that is going to take multiple hours. That's ridiculous for all of you saying "I walked this many miles". I apologize to you as well. You shouldn't have to do that. I'm so glad I'm going to be a teacher and can get school cancelled instead of having to rely on MBs and DBs expecting nannies to come in when there is over a foot of snow.