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  My work made us come in with the punishment thst we'd be locked at work for 45 days if we didn't.
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