Posted on 01/07/2025 7:25:15 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As Winter Storm Blair wreaks havoc across the United States, blanketing highways with snow, disrupting power grids, and bringing life-threatening conditions to millions, the absence of leadership in promoting remote work is both perplexing and deeply frustrating. With the storm spanning over 1,500 miles from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic, affecting more than 60 million people, this is a moment when proactive policies could save lives, reduce economic disruption and maintain a semblance of normalcy.
The National Weather Service has issued stark warnings, with blizzard conditions, significant icing and dangerously low visibility reported in numerous states. In Ohio, where my hometown of Columbus braces for up to six inches of snow with winds gusting at 35 mph, traveling by car is increasingly perilous. Across the Midwest and Northeast, the story is much the same: jackknifed trucks on icy highways, stranded motorists and overwhelmed emergency services.
Yet, federal, state and local governments, along with business leaders, remain silent on one of the most obvious solutions: encouraging or mandating remote work.
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Probably for the Weather Channel to get better ratings.
let’s name the next one Kamala
Yea, maybe those snow plow drivers could work from home?
“When the blizzard hits, why are we still commuting?”
What a stupid #%&$. It is because in the real world there is more to do besides flapping your mouth and using your office to commit fraud and theft with your laptop. In the real world equipment must be serviced and fixed, fuel extracted, food delivered, etc. and if those people didn’t go to work you would sit freezing in the dark eating your fur babies.
Oh don’t be a sissy Gleb. It’s just snow. Prepare for winter and even you will be fine. Or just wait for global warming.
Oh yeah. If no name, it ain’t a serious storm apparently. So, why commuting? Uh, your job? I remember living in McLean in the late 50’s. Thinking 59 IIRC. Dad had to go in to d.c., mom worked at the pentagon. Olds 88 rear wheel drive, no chains. I don’t recall them missing work because of snow.
I think it started with WS URI in 2022
I think the Weather Channel has been doing this for some time.
It really increases the fear factor.
To me it’s just stupid. Winter storms are a natural occurrence. Prepare for them as one would any other severe weather that’s been around since time began. This is all just hype.
I grew up in Detroit and never missed a single day at work due to weather. I now live near Baltimore. My first month there they shut the office down for three days due to snow. To be fair, it was lots and lots of snow but three days was a bit much.
One year early in my career, we had a national sales meeting. I was close enough that I didn’t rate a hotel room. There was a significant snowstorm coupled with a snowplow operator strike. Needless to say, the roads kinda sucked.
I left home at 4am and was still an hour late to the meeting, but that’s what you do.
They are predicting 6” of snow and 35 MPH winds? Good God, that’s a nothing.
And we know with global warming hype, any weather is considered evidence of global warming. So a bad winter storm is considered evidence of global warming even though the storms have happened throughout time.
We lived in snow country all our lives, and for decades 9nly had 2 wheel drive vehicles, and didn’t get time off. Some storms were bad enough that we had to wait for the snowplow to go through before we could get to the jobsites, and driving was miserable, near whiteout conditions with the winds that always crop up right at the end of storms, but we made it.
Then we got a 4 wheel drive vehicle- heaven on earth! Could go most anywhere, BUT the downside was that IF you got stuck with it, you were really really stuck lol. We didn’t have cell phones back then either. We learned to carry shovels, sand both for weight and for traction, and an extra set of warm clothes incase we ever got stranded. Thankfully we never did- decades of perfectly safe traveling (though white knuckle traveling at times to be sure). There was no “work from home” options available then, nor should there be except for perhaps certain jobs I suppoxe now
Dear Gleb Tsipursky, I am waiting for you to explain how I can work remotely as a truck driver. Or as a coal miner.
I left home at 4am and was still an hour late to the meeting, but that’s what you do.
Guess us older folks are tougher than we thought. 🤔😂👍
I think the reason why they want remote work is so they can cut you off remotely when they fire you and you don’t have to even come down to the office. Having to come to site means they have to face when when they fire you.
This is the unanswered question.
All this talk of working from home and working remotely , has the underlying assumption that everyone’s job is structured ,so that you sit at a computer terminal.
The underlying assumption is that you’re sending emails and doing zoom meetings, and that this is all your job entails.
I didn’t learn it, I just did it.
My kids are all the same. If it needs to be done, they get it done.
One of my sons is a trucker. He works at a local landscape wholesaler. Even though the entire city shut down, he was at work yesterday even though they didn’t make any deliveries. He had plenty of other stuff to do.
Why is Gleb promoting remote working? All the pros and cons are known. It has to be an anti Trump dig because he announced that the fed workers have to return to the office. I guess Gleb doesn’t know about the joy of snow days. I just like saying Gleb.
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