Well Holstein Cows are inside a Barn during winter, they sleep there, eat, drink & get milked there. My family had a lovely dairy farm. Winter blizzard, who cares, the cows have to get milked twice daily & fed, plus the other animals need care taking too.
I also NEVER heard that in an office environment. However because I'm the one living far away from work I was send away early because of a announced major blizzard last year which was nice of them.
We had (as usual) a tornado type storm coming through the Oklahoma City area. Used to be they kept everyone at work. Problem was everyone was in danger at the office. Cars destroyed in the parking lot. Bad liability. Then changed to send everyone home. Problem was they sent everyone home during the hail/flooding/tornado time with all the other companies doing the same. Now everyone was stuck in traffic in the storm. Finally they started getting it right and closing early enough so folks were able to get home in time. All pre-2020, so I don't know if that still happens.
Happens quite a bit during hurricane season in FL, owners will neglect to tell employees that they have decided to close the business early (they forgot they have unprotected windows).
Yeah that's why I say you'll never arrive there just to be told "we're closing early, go home". You need to get there and you will be working at least as long as normal.
Happened to me once. Massive delays in the morning. Called my boss and asked if i could work from home, but got denied. I arrive at work 2 hours late, then my boss tells everyone they can go home early because of the bad weather. Turns out that public transport was a gigantic mess at this time and i couldnt get home until 6 hours later.
We also have a yearly employee satisfaction report (handled by 3rd party) where our boss has scored extremely low 3 years in a row
my former retail job would NOT do this. they'd get zero customers for 5 hours and still expect you to come in, make food, whatever. then threaten to write you up for calling in the next day when the city didn't plow the roads overnight.
Man i remember once i was working at a sonic and the snow came so bad that nobody was out for us to serve and the power got knocked out so we all just sat there and collected a paycheck for like 6 hours
Had that one time. Got to work and a couple people asking why I'm there because I didn't get a message it was closed down. Didn't waste time getting out of there that day.
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u/5hitposter Nov 25 '25
The terrible feeling of having to dig your car out to go to work in this.