Chilly ain't it?
So like a good little employee I get up EVEN earlier than normal to allow extra time to get to work in the bad weather. 6am rise, out the house by 6.45 and off on the decidedly iffy roads.
Now I'm not a wimp, bad weather doesn't worry me. I have driven for a good number of years and I'm fairly confident but when your traction control light hardly goes off. When your brake pedal is vibrating away like mad EVERY time you touch it as the antilock brakes cut in and when you are convinced that every downhill slope will be your last....you start to wonder if it's all really worth it. Then there was the hill, well slope really, that was a traffic jam as we watched the lorries sidle up it sideways. It was that hill that decided it for me. It was "home time" So a quick jump out and tell the guy behind to give me a bit more room next time we moved and a quick 3 pointer took me back the way I came.
A call to my boss , at 7.05am mind you, showed me to be number 8 that had called in already to tell her that HSBC was going to have to cope without us today. Once I got home I called a few more colleagues to find out that my branch was to be staffed by 2 people who were going to have to walk from Nottingham....and without a door key to the building at that.
So another call to my boss to point this slight flaw out to her and she came out with "Ahh woops forgot that...can you call them and tell them to forget it, we will leave Radcliffe closed I think. it isn't worth it" So not only did the bank do without me....it did without the branch too...
first time in 31 years I have been forced to stay home by the weather....and feel as guilty as hell about it. It was dangerous to go, it was daft to go but I feel I should have been there.
Ah well , there is always tomorrow and the inevitable complaints I guess.
Ho Hum aint life grand!
Now I'm not a wimp, bad weather doesn't worry me. I have driven for a good number of years and I'm fairly confident but when your traction control light hardly goes off. When your brake pedal is vibrating away like mad EVERY time you touch it as the antilock brakes cut in and when you are convinced that every downhill slope will be your last....you start to wonder if it's all really worth it. Then there was the hill, well slope really, that was a traffic jam as we watched the lorries sidle up it sideways. It was that hill that decided it for me. It was "home time" So a quick jump out and tell the guy behind to give me a bit more room next time we moved and a quick 3 pointer took me back the way I came.
A call to my boss , at 7.05am mind you, showed me to be number 8 that had called in already to tell her that HSBC was going to have to cope without us today. Once I got home I called a few more colleagues to find out that my branch was to be staffed by 2 people who were going to have to walk from Nottingham....and without a door key to the building at that.
So another call to my boss to point this slight flaw out to her and she came out with "Ahh woops forgot that...can you call them and tell them to forget it, we will leave Radcliffe closed I think. it isn't worth it" So not only did the bank do without me....it did without the branch too...
first time in 31 years I have been forced to stay home by the weather....and feel as guilty as hell about it. It was dangerous to go, it was daft to go but I feel I should have been there.
Ah well , there is always tomorrow and the inevitable complaints I guess.
Ho Hum aint life grand!