“Since bad weather almost never happened where you are you are lucky.”
Huh? No bad weather in Michigan?
I said they don’t allow weather to be used as an excuse, not that we don’t have it.
The employers expect you to get to work on time every day, and if you have to own a 4x4 with tire-chains or ride a snowmobile to do so that is what you have to do.
Georgia has 40 snow plows for the entire state. We do not get the kind of weather some northern climes get.
When I lived in such an area there were very few times that weather would keep people from work or school. But it did happen.
When one cannot get to work because of weather ( and it could be anything from tornado outbreaks to hurricanes to (for the south) the odd snow storm, then the wise thing to do is to stay home. Unless you are a brain surgeon who has an emergency call or some other emergency personnel, most people should be at home to stay out of the way of those who have emergency jobs.
I am not saying that at the first snow flake or the first rain drop that one should stay home. That is not what happened here.
This whole conversation started off with my saying that my kids have good boundaries. They do and I learn from them all the time. One can work from home but my daughter cannot. She does home based medical care. She has been in touch with her patients. She has handled things over the phone. But the roads she travels are nothing but black ice currently.... even with a bit of sunshine. Her patients don’t want her to come because their drive ways and paths to their homes are impassable ( and these folks do have four wheel drive). She would prefer to see her patients but she will not put her life at risk to see a non emergency patient.
People here do not have snow mobiles or chains. Because you live where weather is more severe in the winter gives you no perspective of what happens when the freak storm happens in the south. I would submit that if a tornado watch was out and you were told to shelter in place you would do so. If not there is nothing I can explain to you
Oh and I guess I should tell the other side of this. In 2011 when another storm hit Georgia it hit late at night. My daunter was working second shift at a hospital in those days. She took extra clothes and everything she needed to stay longer if needed. The storm started before her shift was done. The following nurse was already stranded. My daughter stayed and spent the next five days at the hospital until others could come in and work. She ate and slept there.