1st Storm Day in Bloomington

Some simple facts in the morning

10 inches snow on the morning after Christmas day.  Furnace still needs to be fixed.  The technician will not be able to come due to the sever storm.

7:30am in the morning, still snowing badly, strong wind, completely blurry outside

Decided to wait till talk to manager before heading to work

~8am manager got some words from department admin, who already drove to work under the above weather condition “technically the plant is still open today!”

~8:30am, Quote from manager “let me check the possibility for us to work from home today”. 

~9am, Quote from manager “we have 3 options.  Take vacation day; work from home; or work extra hours in the following week to make it up”.  Replied “I will work from home.”

Immediately after reply, received further information from big boss “Since all hourly paid employees will not be paid if they cannot make it to work, Technically we are not allowed to work from home. So please don’t put too much hours into it and then find out that those hours don’t count.”

“What?!!!”  (I guess I am just so lack of imagination on how “Technically” corporate policy can be.  Or maybe all of us should sometime forget that we are living in a “human” world so that we can easily accept those “technical” rules and restrictions”)

Then we decided to spend the day like this.

Shoveling snows

Making a snow man--- Tie described our snow man "Spooky" snowman.  with my limited vocabulary, i didn't get it when he said it.  after his explanation, i like the description --- it is an ugly but with some characters' snowman.