Corporate management refuses to use 1 of 3 allocated "storm days" to shut down the facility despite 1 foot of snowfall, forcing employees to use their own PTO instead: 'The VP started the email with "Happy Tuesday!!"'

• Corporate doesn't use an allocated storm day, opens the facility, and tells us to "assess your own situation" to avoid paying their workers any more than they have to.

  
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  Hazardous winter road conditions highlight the dangers an employee faces during corporate storm day disputes.
  
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• A policy isn't measured in what it might be; it's measured in its actuality, as in how it's applied at the time it's important. Like with unlimited leave balances, which sound great, the reality is that you have to actually be able to take the time off without facing retaliation.

  It's like having insurance that can be declined for any reason, not any good or normal reason (are there any?), but any reason at the insurer's discretion. Theoretically, you have insurance, but are you ever going to get to use it when you need it?

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  Man and woman throwing snow by a snowman, illustrating the freedom of an employee on a paid day off.
  
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• Snow days are just about the only thing we have left that is a true holiday, forced by nature and circumstance, where we are forced collectively to pause our lives and play outside with our children and take a collective deep breath as a society. If you can't do your work, “flexibility” from everywhere that is.

  When this employee woke up to over a foot of snow, they had more than half expected to find that they would not be going to work and the the company would use one of the designated "storm days," effectively a snow day policy that would see closure of the facility to reduce the risk and likliehood of safety concerns when traveling to the facility.

  However, they found that corporate management had merely delayed the starting time of work, instead instructing employees to "assess your own situation" as to whether or not they could travel to work safely. This not only shouldered the responsibility of the decision of safety onto the workers themselves, but it also shouldered the responsibility of missing work, too. See, employees would now have to use their own PTO to miss work, instead of getting a paid day due to the "storm day allotment.

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  Heavy snow being cleared from a street where an employee faces hazardous travel conditions to reach work.

   

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