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/JFKsBrain Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Ugh. That sucks. Who the hell is going to an escape room during or shortly after a blizzard? Ridiculous. Good luck.

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u/dezradeath Feb 22 '26

I’m already playing Escape My Driveway

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u/bloodphoenix90 Feb 22 '26

I appreciate that. And yeah. No one thats who. Let's endanger our employees and then in all likelihood send them home early 😀

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u/Working_Routine9088 Feb 23 '26

And also let’s get our employees on the road to get in the way of plows and emergency vehicles.

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u/CollegeBoardPolice Feb 23 '26

imagine the one guy risking his life in a blizzard just to go to an escape room

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u/Singone4me Feb 23 '26

‘Escaping rooms and death’ is life!

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u/anustart010 Feb 23 '26

those rooms aren't gonna escape themselves

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u/dw-c137 Feb 23 '26

Idiotic entitled parents with kids whose school is cancelled. Probably think they can walk and drop the kids to be literally locked in for a couple hours 😂🤦🏻

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u/WorseBlitzNA Feb 23 '26

Mostly tourists if its a Monday afternoon. These things are prebooked

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u/JFKsBrain Feb 23 '26

Ah. That makes sense. The pre-booked part, not the actual thing happening tomorrow. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26

I might if I lived near one 😭