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Yes, but I don't get them very often... I work in health care and we don't close unless it's really bad.

Yes, however you have to prove that you took every conceivable attempt to get to work (driving, transit, walking...) and since I live only a few Km's from my office I'm one of the few that always has to go in. Because no matter what weather I could probably manage to walk. So I've been to a few pretty empty office days.

Yes!

Nope! You're expected to work from home.

If our office closes, yes I get paid. If I call off b/c I can't make it in due to snow I still get paid but they use one of my "days"

I'm paid on a salary basis, so if the weather really is so bad that we have to close (more often because the power is out than because of snow, because we're in an area that gets a lot of snow and people are used to it), I get paid for it. Hourly workers do not get paid for snow days.

If you choose not to come in because of weather, you don't get paid for it (although you can use a vacation day.)

I work in healthcare so I've never had one. At my last job they would send ambulances to pick up some people attempting to call off due to the weather if they were getting too many call offs.

Well, yes and no. My salary is the same, but whenever we have a snow day at school, we just make it up with an extra day at the end of the school year.

@mediagirl: my brother said they had a few two hour delays at work this month & it made me laugh. Do you have those too?

My husband has been sent home from work once that I can remember due to weather & was paid, but that's probably because they'd already worked 3/4 of the day. He's salaried.

@Mrs. Jump Rope: well...schools have 2 hour delays. And some childcare centers follow those. So, when there are school delays or cancellations, we get to figure out who is going to take PTO for that time! Our schools were delayed twice a couple weeks ago for "ice".

No, but I can telecommute.

I work in a hospital, so there are no snow days. At my last hospital, if it snowed a lot or there were major transportation disruptions, it was an "excused absence" if you had to miss work, meaning it didn't get counted as an occurrence (5 occurrences in a year gets written up, 7 gets you fired). But if you missed work on a day that wasn't excused, you had to take vacation or take it unpaid.

At my current hospital, you're expected to be here. If you miss, you take PTO and it's counted against you.

At my teaching job in MD, we got paid for 5 snow days, which was awesome! Now that we're living in MA, every snow day we take is another day we have to make up at the end of the year.

Yes – but it’s rare. Our company has multiple offices, and if they (not sure exactly who “they” are – the decision makers) close your office then you get paid. If the office is open, you can either take PTO, WFH or come in.

I have a laptop so I can work from home.

Yes, if they close the school.

I work from home, in Florida.... what's a snow day?

Yes, and good thing - we've had 8 this year so far !

Though we had our work from home taken away from us in October, we can work from home when it's bad Midwest weather. During the cold days a few weeks ago, both my DH and I worked at home. Unless LO's daycare/preschool is closed, then one of us takes PTO to stay at home with him.

Never had one!

We don't get snow days....seriously I remember ONCE that a huge snowstorm was coming, and they told us the night before to take our computers home ad remote in, they would be checking to insure we were working from home. I think we would have only gotten out of it if the electricity was out in our city/internet down.

I did have to stay home once due to daycare closing, and I believe that was paid because it was a "personal" day.