Do You Go To Work When It Rains?

I agree with you. It is hard to understand how people can opt not to work on a day just because it's raining. I personally couldn't take the missed pay. On a job a few years ago, there was a female employee who seemed to always miss the rainy or bad weather days at work. I just happened to be in an early Wednesday morning conference in my boss' office, when he received, yet another phonecall from this employee (It was snowing outside, yet not cold enough to stick). SHe was calling to say the roads were bad and she couldn't make it in. Since we were under a deadline, and she was needed, he offered to send someone after her, it threw her off but she accepted. When she arrived at work (nearly 3 hours late), she just complained all day. She had made a call to her hairdresser and had an appointment made before calling into work. She was venting to all of us in the office about her missed hair appointment. Just to add as a sidebar, it had stopped snowing by the time she arrived to work! Well, before the day was up, the boss had been told of the situation, so before the day ended, he told the employee that he didn't think she would be needed the following day. He went on to tell her that for the awesome job we did for meeting our deadline, and for those who had no complaints, he was going to treat us for lunch tomorrow. She was really irate then as she felt she deserved the free lunch too. She spoke up and stated her opinion. My boss replied that her lunch was spent on the gas it took to pick her up this morning. By the time she left, she earned herself an extended weekend, as she confronted the boss before we left for the day and was suspended for two days. :-) Woould have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that confrontation! :-)