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  That's quite literally what is happening. They are leaving the dead bodies in place because the morgue is full. The death total is going to rise significantly
context: Somewhere there is a retail District Manager telling his store managers:
  “We gotta get these stores open!” >
  
  I worked at Toys R US years ago, and I got written up for not coming in during a blizzard where the state had enacted a travel ban. The store opened anyway, and my manager's response to me calling out was"well I made here so why can't you?" >
  
  All jokes aside... If nobody is on the road, who exactly does the store expect to sell to?
  I understand the drive to make sales, but if it costs you more to keep the store open (because nobody is coming in) than it does to open it, why not just close it and save the money? >
  
  That was my thought at the time but apparently they thought it was lucrative to be open. >
  
  Well, I venture to guess that they probably thought wrong. If that's what they thought, then I see their logic based on the premise. But I think their premise was wrong, and thus the logic that followed was equally incorrect. >
  
  I wasn't there that day, but I was there on 9/11. It was busy that day. Weird. >
  
  I think it was mostly "business as usual" on 9/11 outside od DC, NYC, and part of PA..... Sadly. I was in Maine at the time, and that's how I remember it. >
  
  I worked at a mall in Pensacola, Fl. on 9/11. They shut the whole mall down and everyone was sent home. >
  
  I worked for a small insurance company and as soon as the second plane struck we were told to go home to be with loved ones, and they would call when they planned on reopening.  They did close on the next day asks a late open on Thursday.  I truly hate corporate America but this was an example of running a business with humanity. >
  
  I worked for an advertising company in Germany at the time and even we closed down. For us it was in the early afternoon and from after lunch when first news broke everyone started gathering at the „business tv’s“ on the executive floor, like 200 people were just sitting/standing there in silence watching. When the first tower fell, everyone was shaken, after the 2nd tower fell, everyone just grabbed their backpacks and went home. >
  
  During Sandy my employer made us come in. All the roads flooded or washed out from the storm surge. We were waist deep in sea water by the time the national guard was able to get us out. >
  
  Well fuck that, I wouldn't come in when there's a damn hurricane rolling in >
  
  My work made us come in with the punishment thst we'd be locked at work for 45 days if we didn't. >
  
  I just read a story of a local lady dying in NY, after getting stuck in the snow while driving home from work.      I know some people have to go in to work regardless of weather, but, their employers should be assisting with transportation in these cases. >
  
  Erie County official statement back in November:
  
  "Travel ban means no travel," Poloncarz said at the 9 p.m. snowstorm briefing.
  Poloncarz said employers cannot force their employees to violate a travel ban by driving to work unless the employees are essential emergency personnel.
  
  Employers had no excuses this time. >
  
  This is exactly what Seattle needed. I mean, all those crashes were a great boon to the auto body industry but so many people were hurt. >
  
  seriously, just wild that people were expected to come to work when the hilly roads were literally solid sheets of ice. >
  
  Solid. Sheet. Of. Ice. On hilly roads.
  Worst bosses ever. >
  
  Best sliding saucer race ever. >
  
  Many of my co-workers live in Buffalo. We all work remote, so luckily they don't have to drive anywhere, but holy hell are they struggling! It's scary over there right now! >
  
  My brother-in-law lives in Buffalo. He and his family were going to come in for a visit yesterday. Needless to say, they canceled. There's no way they'd make it out of Buffalo, much less all the way to where I live. >
  
  How are people getting groceries? >
  
  Do people really get groceries every day? If we had a travel ban or the snow was that bad where I live, I think we’d be ok for a week with what we’ve got stored. Probably would have to get creative with meals towards the end though >
  
  A lot of the problem was when people lost power, their food went bad. I'm in Buffalo and lost power for 36 hours. I made it out to get groceries today and it's like a warzone. >
  
  Why not put groceries outside to keep cold? >
  
  I can hear the Applebee's management loosing their shit as they scream about how they need everyone in for giftcard week! Lol >
  
  Funny story, there was a post on r/Buffalo asking at Applebee’s is still open(granted it was very obviously a joke but still) >
  
  I found it and it’s a gold mine. >
  
  I can just see a sovcit now... "I'm not driving, I'm traveling!"
  Try that line on an MP.  See what happens. >
  
  A lot of the local FB pages have shit exactly like that. What's funny is, a good plurality, if not outright majority, of stuck cars I have seen were pickups >
  
  As a pickup truck owner, pickups totally fucking suck in the winter unless you throw a bunch of weight into the bed to get traction on the rear wheels.  And most of those chucklefuck pickup owners are too afraid of scratching the paint on their precious to throw some cinder blocks in. >
  
  That’s what erks me about truck owners. They are afraid of the west and tear trucks get. Who cares if there’s some scratches around the bed, it’s a truck! >
  
  Boss: but you're still coming to work right? >
  
  The Sioux tribe in South Dakota sounds even worse off. Having food delivered to the reservation, but still not able to get it to homes until the snowmobiles arrived. Good grief. >
  
  Blizzard of '78, rural Ohio. 70 mph winds and drifts up to 15 ft. Couldn't even find the roads, much less drive on them. >
  
  ‘78 in Boston. Drifts covered one story house in my cul de sac. No one could move for five days and then only by foot. My 67 chevy c10 on extra large tires was covered over the roof. Anyone with 4wheel drive was asked to drive emergency personnel to from hospitals. Natl Guard high water vehicles were everywhere. >
  
  Amazing time to be a kid in Boston. Went sledding off our garage roof! >
  
  well, I lived in a victorian house with a bunch of house mates. When the snow and wind stopped, five of us shoveled side by side to reach the street. Luckily that was two carpenters, a rugby player, a factory mechanic (me) and an attorney. We walked to the Galway House (Jamaica Plain), stuffed our faces, decided to go to Peters Hill with a tobaggan, smoked a few joints on the way, wiped out at the bottom of the hill, dislocated my knee but didn't know it cause I was too stoned, walked back to the house and slept it off. Next morning we all were quite messed up. >
  
  Amazon managers: If you choose to stay at home then you choose to be unemployed and because you basically sacked yourself to can't claim unemployment benefit. But if you make it there alive we have free coffee! >
  
  You could just say "managers" and it would be the same >
  
  for real, for a while the new line has been
  "we didn't fire you, you quit"
  bosses have always loved it that "you can't fire me, I quit" became pop culture. does their denial for them. >
  
  Agreed, it was used excessively by my company lately. 
  The phrasing was, “as a condition of your employment you must . Failure to do _ means you have resigned your position immediately.”
  Haven’t seen one recently so maybe enough people called their bluff. So manipulative I want to vomit and see if that counts as resigning too. >
  
  I am impressed by the article having metric and Celsius in  parentheses. Made understanding the amount of snow easier.
  Crazy weather. >
  
  My dumb ass drove out of West Seneca (a suburb of Buffalo) during a brief break in the snowfall to get myself and my girlfriend to PA on christmas day. We didn't get above 15mph at any point before we got out of WNY, fishtailed a half a dozen times, and got caught in multiple whiteouts with ~20 feet of visibility. 
  I will be staying the fuck inside during the next apocalyptic snow hurricane.
  BTW we didn't violate any driving ban, we only left once our area had been downgraded to a "winter weather advisory." Last I saw on r/buffalo the driving ban was only still in effect in Buffalo proper >
  
  What kind of tires did you have? Fishtailing half a dozen times sounds suspiciously like inappropriate tires. Fresh powder is easy to drive on with proper winter tires. That's why Nordic countries legally require snow rated tires in  the winter. >
  
  Not sure, we were in a rented Honda CRV. It handled pretty well in the snow, but we ran in to trouble during the parts where we were driving on a thick sheet of ice going up and down hills/over bridges. Salt doesn't really melt ice when it's 11 degrees out >
  
  
  were in a rented
  
  Yea.... That's all the info we needed. You were on the cheapest possible tires they could find >
  
  Wdym find?
  He was on the summer tires the car came out of the factory with, 40-50k miles ago.
  At least that was my experience renting a vehicle in the US on my trip. The tires HAD to be factory ones, because they were 1) nearly bald and 2) a very fancy brand on an otherwise completely run-down 2019 MY vehicle. Luckily it was 20C outside when I visited, not even a chance of snow. >
  
  Why don’t they just take the snow and push it somewhere else? >
  
  They banned that too for the last 3 days. Only plows allowed to be out are the ones doing the main roads, which is probably illegal because ambulances need to be able to enter apartment complexes and neighborhoods. >
  
  We shouldnt need to clear ways for ambulances, just freeze the sick and wait for snow to clear to treat them.