Hurry To Work So We Can Send You Home

Many of you are fortunate to work for someone independent enough to afford common sense without fear of retribution by the higher workplace powers that be. In other words, you work for people who care more about you, and not more about what their bosses will think of them for making a decision on their own.

Case in point:

I woke up at 430 am today, as usual, and I wondered what the drive in to work would be like. As I sat to eat my oatmeal, I could hear the icy rain hitting the window. I called our pre-recorded work "weather line" only to hear we were still scheduled to open at regular time. Bummer. My thirty-five minute drive to work would be interesting, to say the least.

As I got ready to leave, I called the weather line again, but this time, they'd updated the recording to state we were still opening at regular time, but "we" would keep monitoring the weather and issue an early closing if conditions warranted such a measure. They should've just saved all the wording and simplified the recording to say "Come on in, hang out for an hour or two, and we'll let you go when we're sure the roads are too dangerous for anyone to drive on."

Management mentality strikes again. You'd think for all those years of college, and all those butt-kissing years of managerial experience, they'd have grown a pair by now. Go figure.

Well, I took the proletariat initiative and decided to stay home rather than risk wrecking my vehicle on the way back home. The roads here are already slushed over, and I just couldn't bring myself to drive half an hour to wait for someone else to make up their politically correct mind about my safety. If I get any crap about staying home, I have a feeling I won't be the only one filing appeals about any reprimands.

Did anyone else out there go through the same thing? I'd love to read your comments. I'm guessing most everyone reading this had bosses who cared more for their workers than for what their own bosses thought about them.

So is anyone hiring a bilingual, computer-savvy, fed-up-with-big-management 36 y/o guy? Lemme know.