Posted on 01/29/2014 1:46:20 PM PST by Dick Bachert
Carry chains in your 4x4?
Agree.
I have that “electronic cottage” in my home.
In the DC area today there was a slight dusting. Knowing the transplant idiots that come to this city (particularly from the south who have no idea how to handle snow) I prudently worked at home rather then venture to the office.
The fact that anyone with a laptop and internet connection commutes to an office anymore is ridiculous
If I know a big storm is coming that will really tie up traffic, I take my computer home the night before and work from home.
A better lesson from the storm:
Chick-fil-A gives free food to motorists stranded in Southern snowstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117140/posts
Once Chick-Fil-a determined that stranded drivers, stuck in their cars for nearly seven hours, went without food or water, the Chick-fil-A staff went into action, cooking several hundred sandwiches then braving the icy storm to hand out the sandwiches.
Chick-Fil-a staffers braved the falling snow and ice, slipping and sliding, as they offered their famous hot juicy chicken breasts tucked between two buttered buns. Chick-fil-A refused to take a single penny for their sandwiches. The meal was a gift – no strings attached.
At least we got the Lead outta gasoline.
How about the lesson is that not everything can predicted.
Atlanta is rather far south.
On the other hand, I believe it is at the highest elevation of any East Coast city. Hard to understand how they can be THIS totally unprepared.
The lesson I see is if there’s weather inbound to your area that your area almost never gets, things will be crazy, try to stay home (electric cottage, call in sick, whatever it takes).
The problem with telecommuting is that anything that can be done from your home and an Internet connection can be done by some guy in Mumbai or Bangalore from HIS Internet connection.
Wait until management finds out who costs less!
Those crazy homophobes!
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It is a brave new world, however there are many jobs stateside that are information jobs that you simply can’t get the same quality in Mumbai. Along with that you have certification requirements, clearance requirements, citizen requirements as well.
Then wait until they find out how difficult it is to terminate an employee, or not pay him even if there is no work to do.
I've been responsible for sending work to a sub-group of my department in India. I don't want to be in that position again. The biggest fear we had in staffing up for a large job was the inability to back staff down.
I wonder if they asked someones sexual orientation before they gave them a sammich. I rather doubt it.
1. They let everyone out at the same time 2. 2" of snow turned into solid ice 3. No one I know, and I've been around a while, can navigate successfully on solid ice. Atlanta is a southern city that rarely gets storms of this magnitude. Last one in 2011. I know, I was snowed in for 8 days. Previous to 2011, the last big one I remember was a huge ice storm in 97 or 98. Now why would a southern city spend untold millions to stock sand, salt and snowplows if they're only going to be used once every 5-6 years?
It's not the employees who want to be in the office(s).
It is the employers who insist that they need butts in seats.
“Now why would a southern city spend untold millions to stock sand, salt and snowplows”
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While my family was from Atlanta in the 30s, I grew up in Memphis, where we had a 14 inch snow in Dec. 63 and 17 inch in March of 68.
I remember hearing that the city had one snow plow, but sold it back in the 50s.
I also remember ice skating on city park ponds. The park service set up barrel fires along the banks to help us keep warm. The 1963 snow was accompanied by a MINUS 13 degrees.
My cold spells now are temps dipping into the 70s. It is now 78 outside at 7:30 AM, haha. I might have to put on a shirt.
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the drivers thought they could cheat their way thru the snow.
Of course, cheating didn’t work out so well for those Atlanta teachers either.
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