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
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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
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)
I may have to pick up a few extra hours Thursday, too, so in trade I may be able to take Sat or Sun off (or at least work greatly reduced hours). That'll be ok I think :)
My work day. We closed the store a few hours early and were encouraged to cut labor by letting people stay home. This included my decorator and BOTH my closers. I came in to open and had to stay to close.
That would have been great fun but, alas, was not in the cards. All the day's baking was already complete. I just had to work on restocking the floor after it was totally decimated this weekend. That's unboxing and shelving lots of sandwich bread, some various frozen pre-made things, and then packaging some of the things that had been baked off that morning by my baker.
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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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Although with the 80 minute drive in, I suppose it ballanced out closer to yours, heh.
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