How many snow days you get every year?

[wickerwoman]

In your neck of the woods, what's the average number of days you get off work due to bad weather? What's your company's policy? Do you have to make up the days or do you get a paid holiday?

I haven't had a bad-weather day off work in 3 years despite living through 4 typhoons. :-(

[NMMNG]

1. Unless the governor declares a "state of emergency"

and orders that nobody except emergency personnel and plows be on the road I don't get off for snow. I'm considered essential staff and expected to show up, period.

[Crabby Appleton]

2. Zero

[RebelOne]

3. Since I live in Georgia just northwest of Atlanta,

we don't get too much snow, so my employer doesn't give snow days.

[Bassic]

4. Heh.

Up here in Canada, we don't get the day off for snow or freezing rain, unless we actually can't open the front door.

[GirlinContempt]

5. Exactly

[xmas74]

7. I had exactly one growing up before I moved to Missouri.

We had a blizzard in the UP that year.

MO we usually get them for freezing rain. We have quite a few country students who get stuck out there for a couple of days and no plows to get them out.

[seemunkee]

6. 1-2 depending on the winter and a few half days

My boss is a snow wimp and the office manager is from Barbados. If it looks bad they close the office. I'm the first one in and there have been a few days when I've been in the office working and they call me asking if I'm nuts for driving in.

[malta blue]

8. My company does not give you any time off for snow,

but since I have a 7 y/o daughter, I have to take off when her school id closed, and use my vacation/sick/personal time or make up the hours during that week.

[Bassic]

11. That's pretty much how it works up here as well. nt

[TommyO]

9. My company is wierd

it's a multinational, so business is almost constant (except for weekends). Holidays? What happens here, doesn't happen in the UK or India, and vice-versa. Snow days are based on building and regional weather. Even if a snow day happens, most of us can work remotely so there's no such thing as a day off because of snow.

[haf216]

10. We don't get off unless it really big, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hi

we had a hard time getting the company to let us close so we could get out of town. The bigwigs are in New Jersey so they don't understand that it's not like a blizzard where you hole up in your house, you have to get out of the way. But they do pay full time and management employees for "acts of God" for up to a week. And this year if there is any hurricanes they are going to let us close the stores earlier.

[Love Bug]

12. Are you kidding? I live in the Twin Cities. We scoff at "snow days"

Last time anyone around here had a snow day was during the infamous 1991 Halloween snow storm where we had 27" of snow. Snow days for any accumulation less than 2' is for wimps!

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. Back when I didn't telecommute, anywhere from zero to four.

Depended on the year. Now that I telecommute, I have nowhere to drive, so I don't get compensated for snow days. :(

[trackfan]

14. We've gotten zero in my lifetime.

[LibertyLover]

15. If the federal government is closed

then the office I work in is closed. I work in DC. Some years we get a number of weather days, other years not so many. It used to be that the feds closed down if there was a hint of snow 100 miles away. They have gotten away from that, but now seem to remain open on days that are pretty crummy. Of course a year or so ago, a hurricane was supposed to hit the next day and Metro announced the day before that it would be closed. So we had no option but to close the next day too. At the last minute the hurricane moved out to sea and Washington didn't get much rain at all, but offices and schools and the government were already closed because of Metro's decision. Metro announced that they would be more careful in the future in their closings.

[LeftyMom]

16. Snow?

What's that? :shrug:

[billyskank]

17. White stuff fluttering from the sky that makes people in BMWs

drive into ditches

and me :rofl:

:evilgrin:

[LeftyMom]

18. Oh, we don't have that here

[Mutley]

19. Not often.

I live in Maryland where we get a fair amount of snow in the winter, but not quite enough for people to figure out how to drive in it. My school would very rarely shut down, and my job even less often.

I once called out of work when we had 25" of snow, and my boss got an attitude with me about it. There was no getting my car out that day. None.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. My company's policy is ....

haul your ass through the snow and come to work, ya damn wimps.

[billyskank]

21. About 0.5

on average, I think.

[KamaAina]

22. You've got to be kidding me

actually we have been let out on occasion due to fierce rainstorms (two or three times in five years), and yes, it does snow here -- at the very tops of the highest mountains on Maui and Hawai'i (Big Island), but the only people who work up there are scientists and technicians.

[Haole Girl]

23. None...zero...zippo

Life in the airline biz! We are here rain or shine...snow or sleet! They say to just get here when you get here! One time it took me 2 hours to get to work and over 2 hours to get home (when I lived 37 miles away). I kid you not.

[Xithras]

24. In California? Bwahahahahahaha!

The closest I get is a 1 hour allowance on fog days (we can be late). We make it up at the end of the day.

[Tikki]

26. There was this TV show and it said that those....

High/Low speed police chases they show on television here in California
were the equivalent of 'snow days' in So Cal.....
So I would say about 10 a year.


Tikki

[Mz Pip]

25. No snow here

well maybe once every 10 years the local mountains get a dusting.

Mz Pip
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