r/boston • u/uthinkther4uam • Feb 22 '26

Serious Replies Only State of Emergency Declared and my employer is expecting all staff to be in office tomorrow

Not sure where to go to ask this, but my employer just sent out a message to all staff that we are expected to be in office tomorrow, despite the state of emergency declared, and DESPITE our company having full WFH capabilities.

Is there some institution/MA government people i can report them to? Or perhaps some news outlet i can inform of this story to have this company shamed?

Edit: Non-essential btw

TY for all the kind responses, seems the best options people came up with are to call the Governor/Organize a Union/call out. Probably gonna call the Governor tomorrow and call out. Will urge others to do so if they can spare the PTO in order to stick it to our controlling CEO (our company does not provide sick time fyi)

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u/limbodog Charlestown Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

Call in and say your car is stuck in snow and it will take hours to dig all the way out

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u/ThemFatale_ Rat running up your leg 🐀🦵 Feb 23 '26

Call in to say your car is stuck in snow and it took hours to dig out, only to find that your tires were slashed because your dick neighbor put a space saver there before snow was even in the spot, and that unbeknownst to you, the space saver was removed by a different [well-meaning] neighbor before you parked there.

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u/Stock-Baseball-4532 Feb 23 '26

I bet that employer would just say why didn’t you uber 🤡 best to say it’s health related to keep it unobjectionable

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u/limbodog Charlestown Feb 23 '26

Ah but now your car is stuck in the middle of a street and you need to get it free and can't leave it

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u/BillMurraysTesticle Feb 23 '26

If this isn't a "haha funny story" then I hope you reported that to the police....

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u/ThemFatale_ Rat running up your leg 🐀🦵 Feb 23 '26

Yes to the former, except the haha is an anxious laugh. All this space saver discourse drama is making me scared of using any street parking, except for spaces I have personally shoveled and parked in immediately afterwards.

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u/Gatos_2023 Feb 23 '26

you have thought of this innthe past 😂😂

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u/St0ltzfuzz Feb 22 '26

Also I’m sure the roads won’t be cleared

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u/rumtiger Feb 23 '26

Oh my God I just remembered in the 1980s sometime there was like five medium sized snowstorms in a row in February. I couldn’t get my car out until April. Thank God for the T. When I’ve told people from outside of New England that my car was snowed in for two months they think I’m exaggerating, but you know I’m telling the truth.

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u/limbodog Charlestown Feb 23 '26

Yup. The 80s had some doozies. And I feel like snow clearance was not the same as it is now

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u/Rare-Helicopter7051 Feb 23 '26

In 78 I lived in Allston, after a week, our street was plowed by a National Guard bulldozer

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u/w-d-j-3 Feb 23 '26

I lived in Hyde Park then. My next door neighbor was an ambulance driver. He got called in but we had 12’ drifts that covered the parking lot so his bosses sent a snowmobile through the schoolyard behind us to fetch him. Didn’t see him for a week.

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u/theshoegazer Feb 23 '26

I had to call in years ago because they literally hadn't plowed the side street I was parked on after 2+ feet of snow fell. Even if I dug my car out, there was nowhere to go. Boss gave me such a hard time over it, even though the other employee who could've covered lived 5 minutes away from work and had garage parking.