Has anyone had to cancel for the upcoming heavy snow storms? If so, were schedulers understanding?

I was recently sent back out to retake photos by some snots. I DID take them correctly the first time but they wanted "fresh" ones. It was 14 below that day with a windchill of 37 below. Camera froze up and my hands went "clunk" when I bumped them against something.

I canceled a shop for tomorrow. A snow storm coming this way and it would be too dangerous to drive to do the shop. No snow clearing equipment here.

No scheduler to talk to. Was done on their website.

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In the past I have had to reschedule and/or cancel due to icy roads. I had no problems.



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I have had to do a lot of rescheduling in a month's time (I live 40 miles north of Boston). I have had no issues. I have even been offered "weather" bonuses for going out the day after storms.

That's great. Be careful though.

The only company I have ever had issues with is Strategic Reflections.

I got a two day extension on a shop. Ice is the problem here.

Hell's breaking loose tomorrow here. I'm not going anywhere for no amount of money.

I"ve been stuck in the house for about 10 days now. I COULD get out, I suppose but it hardly seems worth it for $10 and I'm not running all over town to make more than that with the icy conditions. I've been offered big bonuses for out of the way jobs, but I had to turn them down. The town had been hit by an ice storm and if schools are not open then its definitely not safe.
There's a particular MSC who keeps calling even though I've told them its not happening right now. Their deadline is coming up but I can't control the weather.

I spoke with a scheduler last week and she told me she has to call her shoppers because that is what the company wants her to do. She understands the weather, but that makes no difference. She must call, every single day.

I could not do her job.

All of the schedulers I've dealt with have been understand, except CORI. The woman told me that there was no way the weather was bad, because where she was located the weather was fine with only a little ice on the road. I pointed out to her that she is located 175 miles from me, so she really doesn't qualify to tell me what type of weather I'm experiencing!

And anyone who thinks that ice can be driven on is full of more @#$%& than a constipated cow. Even "a little ice" is too much.

I second that James twice this month I've been out doing shops and I have gotten caught in white out conditions. When it cleared I saw cars wrecked on the side of the road. My motto is safety first. All the money in the world can't be spent if your dead. Be careful out there ya'll.

I then emailed the CORI scheduler a link to the weather advisory that prohibited travel unless necessary necessary. That seemed to shut her up, but she still would not let me reschedule the shop and it lowered my overall average score from a 5 to a 4.

There's only one score that matters: did you get paid for the shop?

If you're paid, then it doesn't matter whether you got a 10 or a 4.



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I should mention I was able to reschedule it for another day I had to do this and juggle around some shops to beat the weather, ice.

@Cettie wrote:

I was recently sent back out to retake photos by some snots. I DID take them correctly the first time but they wanted "fresh" ones. It was 14 below that day with a windchill of 37 below. Camera froze up and my hands went "clunk" when I bumped them against something.

Ask them next time, if they want to go with you to take pictures outside, when it's 14 degrees below zero

I was able to perform the shops I had scheduled for today this past Saturday. When I heard the weather report Saturday, it was saying the Saturday snow was going further south than expected.
Thank goodness too. It has warmed up to double digits (19 degrees F). However, the snow has begun falling and the SUV has a brake line leak.
Tomorrow, the temperature again goes below zero and then by week's end, more snow. February is a indeed, a cruel month.

But, it shall warm up!

I found a good bargain at a local home improvement store for vegetable seeds a 9 cents a package. Spring shall certainly be here soon.

Having said that, here is a lovely poem written by one lovely man. His birthday was in February. Apologies in haste for going off topic.

February. Take ink and weep


February. Take ink and weep,
write February as you’re sobbing,

while black Spring burns deep
through the slush and throbbing.

Take a cab. For a clutch of copecks,
through bell-towers’ and wheel noise,

go where the rain-storm’s din breaks,
greater than crying or ink employs.

Where rooks in thousands falling,
like charred pears from the skies,

drop down into puddles, bringing
cold grief to the depths of eyes.

Below, the black shows through,
and the wind’s furrowed with cries:

the more freely, the more truly
then, sobbing verse is realised.

- Boris Pasternak

Tatjana - I do not understand your verse, I am so sorry..... I thought it was about spring, but am not sure?!

Anyways, I was a day late on a shop b/c of weather, and the scheduler TOTALLY understood. I appreciated that!

I did my last two shops today and that is it until the weather clears. I am not answering my phone either. Two calls and I am not home folks!

I'm in Atlanta and have rescheduled my shops for today and tomorrow. I just called and told them that our city shuts down at the though of snow. (Last year it really did shut the city down) I'm a GA native and can laugh at our inability to deal with snow/ice.

I am in Amarillo, TX and the weather is terrible! But I am getting big bonuses from Market Force to do gas station audits in my area, so I'm enjoying the weather!

@Chix: I had a friend who despised February. So weary of the cold and snow, the short days, the sunlight of a winter's day that seemed wasted in the bitter cold, February seemed too long even when it was only 28 days. Sadly he is gone now.

So to me, the verse is literal of the cruel month of February. Yet, knowing of the promise that shall come. I view the month as the final gasp of winter. March may be cold, yet there is the promise of warmth to come.

Boris may have been referring to other things (perhaps Russia's democratic rebirth?? sans (Ras)Putin).

Apologies for going off topic.

I bumped some shops this month. People were understanding. I also didn't try for as many, because of our non stop winter. Granted we didn't get hit anywhere near as badly as Boston, but I've also got a bad back and can't afford to risk falling. THAT could lay me up for weeks.

@Tatjana wrote:

@Chix: I had a friend who despised February. So weary of the cold and snow, the short days, the sunlight of a winter's day that seemed wasted in the bitter cold, February seemed too long even when it was only 28 days. Sadly he is gone now.

So to me, the verse is literal of the cruel month of February. Yet, knowing of the promise that shall come. I view the month as the final gasp of winter. March may be cold, yet there is the promise of warmth to come.

Boris may have been referring to other things (perhaps Russia's democratic rebirth?? sans (Ras)Putin).

Apologies for going off topic.

I love your writing style!

I woke up on sunday to heavy icing on local roads. Though it was supposed to be above freezing that day, many area activities were closed so it didn't give me a good feeling and I also thought that shopping a FF breakfast on a day everyone else was staying off the road would ID me. I emailed Market Force to reschedule but unfortunately there were no reschedule dates available to they requested I cancel online which I did. I was bothered by this at first, wondering if it was one of my three strikes, but I decided that a bonused breakfast wasn't work risking my life or totaling my new van over.

I'm cancelling three today if I can't get extensions. We've had ice and snow all week. If I had a life and death situation I'd drive these roads, but I don't and I won't. Not looking forward to flaking, but I won't risk my car or my health under these extreme conditions.

@MDavisnowell wrote:

I'm cancelling three today if I can't get extensions. We've had ice and snow all week. If I had a life and death situation I'd drive these roads, but I don't and I won't. Not looking forward to flaking, but I won't risk my car or my health under these extreme conditions.

I think the clients are aware there is a massive amount of ice and snow. They need to let the schedulers have the ability to move things around, to keep the shoppers safe in this weather. Hopefully they care about the shoppers and will understand reschedules and cancellations.

No shop is worth dying for when you hit an ice patch and crash into a tree....

Tatjana, you may have got seeds that were left over from last year. Take a few and wrap them in a damp paper towel and place them in a ziplock bag in a warm place for a week or so to see if the germinate. If they were properly stored there shouldn't be a problem. I keep leftover seeds in their package and stored in a Tupperware-type container in the fridge.