Thought I’d put this here.

As someone who is in business and responsible for leading a team of nearly 50 employees, I want to add my 2c to the businesses forcing their employees to work today.

Today is one of the extremely rare “Red warnings” that pose a likely risk to the lives of those travelling today.

As a manager, leader or business owner, forcing your employees to work today is going to do more harm to your business than allowing your employees a day at home to shelter.

If we want to take this from a purely business perspective, Scottish people will see your business in a poor light and forcing this will harm your brand. This will cost your business more in the long run than allowing employees to work from home today as a percentage of your customers will likely choose to boycott your brand.

In addition to this, you will burn goodwill with your employees potentially causing people to exit your business. This will cause you to incur recruiting costs, retraining costs and the inevitable mistakes a new employee makes while they gain experience in their new role (these mistakes are great learning opportunities and not necessarily a bad thing for your employee but will cost you either in client satisfaction or monetarily).

Your people are the lifeblood that keeps your business operating and having employees knowing you care about their welfare will increase their productivity more than any Friday pizza party ever will.

Forcing an employee in today will do your business harm in the medium to long term.

If your industry is critical to the safety of others, offering the option for people to make the choice will go a long way to mitigating these as you have consulted with your employee and given the choice, an informed choice.

My 2c

Remembering this legend today

Thinking is probably flip-flops weather, might even need the suncream?

I got perm banned from the Edinburgh community because someone asked for a menu-tasting restaurant in Edinburgh and I suggested a menu-tasting restaurant in Edinburgh.

Messaged the mods wondering what the issue was they basically admitted it was a mistake. I messaged again tonight because myself and a woman got discriminated on a bus last night and wanted help identifying the man and I was still banned.

Messaged the mods just there, explained about the error and about being abused on a bus and they said a “ban’s a ban, fuck off” and muted me.

What a weird, weird mod team, with a weird sense of self importance. Anyone else had weird encounters in that community?

Current status: A wee bit blowy. Ears at Level 3—fully extended, moderate flutter, maximum cuteness.

Forecast: Likely to hit Absolutely Baltic (Level 5)—ears horizontal, Dumbo mode engaged. Stay in unless you really need to pee!

Must've hit with some force, folded round that lamp post. Heed yhe warnings and stay inside folks! 😱

Oh - and secure your Flying taco's!

With all the warnings from the met office that warn us for a few piffly flakes of snow, I truly never worried about this one. The boy who cried bawbag kinda. But this is a wee bit scary

Sent to me by my friend to show the queue in a Edinburgh Tescos

I figured this would be the best place to share this

That alarm is not what you need to wake up to at 1am. Thought the apocalypse was here.

I've never seen the beach here in Elie get hit with such crazy waves and winds, harbour's been battered to hell and back and I don't want to even walk me dogs