This area's tolerance threshold for snow escalates relative to the snowfall received. At the start of the season it begins at zero with the faintest of dusting causing half of the areas residents to nosedive into the nearest ditch at some point during their commutes. After that, it takes a 1/2" or so for the same effect, and 1" or 2" after that and so on.
So, the BIG SNOW that hit late January when we were in California was, apparently, just a few inches (or so my boss confirmed at work tonight). That was above the previous threshold of 1/2" and, therefore, shut the city down. Last night we got about 3" or 4" overnight AND it was still coming down wet and heavy into the morning commute hours. Therefore, the city went on lockdown again for the day, and the new threshold has been set at 5".
My decorator who was on the schedule for today called me "Umm... I'm not sure if I'm supposed to come in or if the store is closed or what. They haven't plowed the streets in MD yet and I'm not sure if I can drive." (I promise you, VA isn't much better and at least half of the people on the schedule this morning made it in alive) One of my retail people called "Yeah, my car is kinda buried in snow, I'm not sure if I can get out." Your shift doesn't start for another 5 HOURS. How much snow does it take to make your car inaccessible even after 5 HOURS of digging?
I just heard that youse guyses got snowed upon. Chris had heard about it earlier, and just assumed it was like 12 or 16 inches, based on the reported mayhem. I guess he gave the locals too much credit. :p
What a foreign concept. We wouldn't shut down Chicago (or Minneapolis, for that matter) unless the snow was, like, radioactive. :p It's always comical at TCS when there's a snow belt moving across the entire midwest, and we start seeing stores in Texas closing when we haven't even started to plow the lot yet. :p
I hope you laughed openly at the ludicrous excuses you got...especially at the 5+ hour digout. It's SNOW, not CEMENT...you are allowed to move it, you don't just have to wait for it to melt.
I didn't realize your role included telling your employees not to be such pussies :p
Actually, I was encouraged by store leadership to let me TMs revel in their pussiness. That is part of why I worked so late. Since customers as well as employees were staying home it really was a painfully slow day (a slow sales day is about $50-$60K for the store; yesterday was $25K tops)
So, the BIG SNOW that hit late January when we were in California was, apparently, just a few inches (or so my boss confirmed at work tonight). That was above the previous threshold of 1/2" and, therefore, shut the city down. Last night we got about 3" or 4" overnight AND it was still coming down wet and heavy into the morning commute hours. Therefore, the city went on lockdown again for the day, and the new threshold has been set at 5".
My decorator who was on the schedule for today called me "Umm... I'm not sure if I'm supposed to come in or if the store is closed or what. They haven't plowed the streets in MD yet and I'm not sure if I can drive." (I promise you, VA isn't much better and at least half of the people on the schedule this morning made it in alive) One of my retail people called "Yeah, my car is kinda buried in snow, I'm not sure if I can get out." Your shift doesn't start for another 5 HOURS. How much snow does it take to make your car inaccessible even after 5 HOURS of digging?
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!
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I just heard that youse guyses got snowed upon. Chris had heard about it earlier, and just assumed it was like 12 or 16 inches, based on the reported mayhem. I guess he gave the locals too much credit. :p
What a foreign concept. We wouldn't shut down Chicago (or Minneapolis, for that matter) unless the snow was, like, radioactive. :p It's always comical at TCS when there's a snow belt moving across the entire midwest, and we start seeing stores in Texas closing when we haven't even started to plow the lot yet. :p
I hope you laughed openly at the ludicrous excuses you got...especially at the 5+ hour digout. It's SNOW, not CEMENT...you are allowed to move it, you don't just have to wait for it to melt.
I didn't realize your role included telling your employees not to be such pussies :p
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