Snow Day!

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night keeps postal workers from delivering the mail. Same goes for corporate workers. Rare is the snow day in the working world. Whereas the night before a major snowstorm kept anxious kids up late with pajamas inside out in hopes of waking to hear the radio or see the news crawl deliver the best news ever -- that school is closed -- the threat of snow keeps commuting workers awake anticipating major headaches. Bottom line is, school districts can make up days at the end of the school year; businesses cannot. So they remain open during a snow or ice storm. Often with harsher implications than those facing schoolchildren. Kids often have a mildly short, though potentially treacherous, walk to school or a bus ride with some Chris Farley-esque driver. Usually within the same town. But workers often travel great distances for their daily toil. And on snow days, they might be traveling from areas that received greater snowfall totals, or that are still being socked by bad weather while their offices are out of the storm's eye. They brave the hazardous road conditions. They brave long waits at bus and train stops while public transportation catches up on salting roadways and defrosting railroad tracks. All to make the company a few more dollars. And, after all the delays, when they finally arrive at the office just before 11 a.m., they find the big boss, the immediate boss, and half their co-workers are all out -- home with their kids or cashing in a sick day in exchange for safety. The only ones at the office -- offspring-less twentysomethings and thirtysomethings in constant competition with each other and in constant fear of job security. Welcome to Snow Day Survivor. Be sure to bring extra socks.