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Work Snow policy
Does your work have a snow policy or has addressed tomorrow's potential storm?
We were told to bring work home with us. We can either work from home, make up time another day this week, or take PTO.
TH hasn't heard from his office yet. Some of the bigwigs are in Chicago and heading back tonight, so if they get caught up in the storm, maybe they will be more understanding. I told TH if it is really bad tomorrow, he isn't going in. Taking 8 hours of PTO is much more ecomonical than getting in an accident. He told me that he would take it slow, however I told him that if a car veens into him and hits him head on, then going slow doesn't help much. Or if he runs off the road, it isn't like I can head out with the kids to help him.
Re: Work Snow policy
They haven't said a word, so it's probably business as usual.
H will work, which completely sucks since he has to drive so far.
There's no set policy here. Typically, if you don't make it in because of snow, you use PTO. Alternatively, some people are allowed to work from home however I am not one of them.
An email was sent out saying that they may close the office completely tomorrow, though, which would be the first time they've done that in the six years that I've been here. If that's the case, we wouldn't be charged PTO. We won't find out for sure though until tomorrow morning.
If we're open tomorrow, I'm planning to come in because I don't want to use PTO and I have a relatively short/easy commute.
I have to work if they need me, regardless of the weather. If a patient gets discharge from the hospital and needs IV meds or tube feedings set up, I will have to go. Ugh.
DH can work from home if he wants, and he probably will.
I know most of our docs are trying to get people home today or wait until Thursday to d/c them. Hopefully you won't have to go out. Which home nursing company do you work for?
We have kind of a weird policy. If the building closes, salaried people dont' have to make up the time.
If you're hourly, though, you only get reimbursed for your time if it's called off before the start of the day; otherwise if you leave you aren't paid for time missed.
Spectrum Health VNA
No way! I work with you guys on most of my home tubefeeders. Cool!
I'm the night on call nurse - and do a ton of tube feed teaching visits at night!
There is no policy. If I don't come in, I have to use PTO. I don't live terribly far from work though, and it's all city/side streets- no highway. We do have a lot of salary people that can work from home, so it's usually not an issue here.
Right now we are tenativly closed tomorrow - our office hasn't closed in the 4 years I've been there and most of my CW's who have been there longer can't remember it ever closing. We have the ability to work from home, so it's usually not an issue.
Our Dallas and Chicago offices closed today and I expect more to be closed tomorrow. Craziness.
When it snows, we close.
The partner from the midwest will drive people home.
It NEVER snows though.