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I've made it into the office this morning - bloody cracking 10km commute along the canal towpath, looking very lovely and pretty in the snow.
Rather annoying then when half the office have put in a request to "work from home", and worse still that loads of them are posting pics of them playing in the snow with kids
Some serious cake fines are going to be handed out when they're back in the office I think, building snowmen is NOT "working from home". Not even Mitchell & Webb style "working from home"
No, not a bit of snow in Leeds and lovely clear blue skies!
I've worked from home for 10 years. Failing to be able to justify 'snow days' is one of the disadvantages.
Hell yeah. But last night was a work night out and I'm too fragile for snowy fun ATM.
Yeah, but then I have been for 6 months. And I’m in Leeds, which is bereft of snow.
We've been working from home for the last 10 years or so as well. No snow here (yet), it's lovely and bright but freeeeeeezing. 'Snow days' are ace but '**** this, I'm off out on the bike again' days are even better 😆
Failing to be able to justify ‘snow days’ is one of the disadvantages.
Yup. Looking out the window though I am wondering if anyone has tried it at the local office. There is about 1mm of snow. Maybe 3mm in the drifts.
Hopefully the mud will freeze up properly. Went for a ride yesterday and was a tad crappy.
Yep, buxton has turned into narnia and the roads over to Manchester are pretty much all closed. Sadly I’ve full of cold and have a full day of conference calls and Skype meetings so no snow day for me. Hopefully get the dog out into the fields later
No snow here, but having to take a day's holiday as my daughter's ill.
Currently drawing trees!
Sunny and cloudy in Lundun, WFH happens on Mondays and Fridays 😜
Work from home?
What an odd concept.
, building snowmen is NOT “working from home”.
I think you'll find your internet connection has become unusable after everybody else in your street is online at 10am on a school day. Might as well head outside & play. 😛
For the record, no snow on the ground this morning in sunny South West London. Train was pretty quiet though.
I took my laptop home from work just in case in did actually snow here in the SW, was surprised to wake up and it was snowing but barely settling, decided to head to the office as I'm too tight to heat my home allday whilst I'm in...
I would work from home a bit more, but stupidly I am followed on STRAVA by a few people at work, Doh !
Oh yes I am - but then i wfh on wednesdays anyway, just dont normally have a house full of family!
Conf call with 2 kids on my lap was interesting, thankfully everyone is pretty understanding and appreciative of the fact we're still getting some work done when by rights we could invoke the nursery closed/taking a snow day card 😛
Yup it's ace.
Loads done too plus I'll be out again straight "from" work on my bike in the snow
I'd quite like to be "working from home!"
Yes, but there's no snow in the west midlands. There is however clear, blue sky, winter sunshine and crisp air. So I've been running and feel pretty damn good about it.
Yes I am, not because of the snow not that there is any here anyway.
Would be nice to get out for a ride once I'm finished but there are two small people here who have other ideas!
Very much working from home. I imagine my PC will go off around 10pm tonight so a quick early doors outing was entirely justified...! Good for the soul.
Two hours plus to drive 9 miles. Used to cycle in and would have loved it today, sadly, since breaking my spine, it's car commutes.
I plan to leave early, get home, fit the Ice Spikers and then go out for a blast.
There were so many idiots this morning, it was crazy. We're all late, stop driving like a nob, cutting people up.
I am, but I'm officially a home worker these days.
IMHO there's less and less reason for people to drag themselves into the office these days other than for the social aspect and "we've always done it this way." I need a phone and an Internet connection and I could be on the moon for the difference it makes, and the same is surely true of many office-based staff.
I need a phone and an Internet connection and I could be on the moon for the difference it makes, and the same is surely true of many office-based staff.
True for some people, but if you need to collaborate, get in the same room.
#grumpycostheresnosnowinmybitofscotlandshire
a number in our office come in from the north side of the Pennines but it was the Manchester crowd that struggled to get in. i quite enjoyed the ride in, dubious about the canal nbt but might try it on the way home.
WFH this afternoon but out on the Surrey Hills (Leigh and Peaslake) this morning. 2-3 inches of snow in place, freezing cold and hard ground made for great riding. Also being the first bike on most trails in pristine snow was ace.
The drive over to Holmbury was quite something else in my mate's transit. Almost zero gripe in most place with black ice everywhere (apparently the rain may have washed away the grit, then it froze). Hardly made it up some gentle slopes.
Working at home, no snow, blue skies been for a lunch run (needs must) as mentioned above any sort of fresh air break is good for the soul.
True for some people, but if you need to collaborate, get in the same room.
Having been subjected to a number of spirit-crushing conference calls recently, I heartily agree.
But the dev team at my work all tend to come into the office for this reason, then do all their work chat over Slack while in the same room.
At a client site this week, my hotel was the right side of the big hill soni made it in surprisingly easily this morning. I'd say looking at the weather and news anyone with a bit of common sense and a laptop should have put in to have been working from home today in the snowy areas would have made things a lot better than valiantly struggling in by 11am to compare. Snowmaggedon pics and tall tales before leaving at 2 just to be on the safe side...
Phone in on the radio today "how do you occupy the kids on a snow day?"
WTAF? The answer is in the question!
WFH is normal for me.
But I was due in London today as my boss of 20 years is retiring.
I set off on the 40 mile drive to the station at 5:30 am, got 5 miles in to the journey and hit a blizzard with it settling on the road. The route takes me through the black mountains. Turned round and went back home.
No snow day for us homeworkers.
I usually do but in Germany this week, so wondering what it will be like in Birmingham tomorrow night when I land.
Plenty of snow here but they either slide on it or ignore it.
Erm... this is a strange one.
There is not a flake of snow about here, but I'm heading home now - Daughter's school is closing as a precaution. We do have a Amber weather warning for snow from 13:00, but an hour in and no sign yet.
A snow day without snow. I might actually have to work from home.
We never close for snow days, and I only live a 15 minute ride from work so always make it in even if my students don't.
The only time we've closed for snow in the 17 years I've worked here was during the Beast From The East last year, when we closed for two days. Annoyingly, I was off work anyway *and* made it into the hospice where my mam was, which is just around the corner from where I work.
WFH is a very sore subject with me at the moment. Employer offered to let me work from home 2 days a week for the last 3 years then in Oct decided that they want me back in the office full time!! This was aparrently due to the number of engineers we now have (about 20) as when i WFH there was only me at the time. Employer was not comfortable with my maverick situation so they said and for work place harmony I was to come back into the office. I call bullshit and don’t think they ever liked the situation but I forced their hand a little.
Just last week I get told they are moving office due to staff numbers and will now be over an hours commute away!
I guess they’ve out grown me and i’ll be off in due course then as that will just destroy my soul.
Guess you could say i’m a little disgruntled.
One of the lads 'worked' from home with the snow/ice. He drives an Evoque - he had nearly crashed twice, and gone home. Strange really, as all the rest of us with normal cars that live near him got in OK. Crap driver.
I resisted the urge to take the 'mickey mouse'. He's the same lad whose Evoque in in the garage every month.
Had a great day snowboarding working from home today.
As my job involves moving cars out of storage for drivers to take to dealers or auction, WFH isn’t really an option! I was in work for 7am this morning, most of the Logistics team phoned to say they weren’t coming in, despite most living far closer than the fifteen miles I am from work.
Site shut at 9am, I get a full day’s pay!
This is the despatch car park earlier today, and despite the conditions, we had several drivers pitch up to deliver cars, and a couple to pick cars up.
