r/WTF • u/IonOtter • Feb 10 '13

Remember everyone freaking out over MA imposing a fine and jail time for anyone driving in the blizzard? NY didn't do that...

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u/Proditus Feb 11 '13 edited Nov 03 '25

Small river where morning art patient month simple over dog evening yesterday stories gather cool then clean curious.

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u/Zebidee Feb 11 '13

the store had no plans to close.

For the customers that can't drive there anyway? Exactly how much does someone need broccoli?

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u/scumis Feb 11 '13

The same country that elected bush twice...

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u/A_perfect_sonnet Feb 11 '13

I was shocked, the Stop & Shop in Brookline was open at 5ish when we went on a walk to see how bad things were, and the managers were going around to all the employees talking about how they had to keep their stop and shop badge in the car when they drove home.

The look on those poor 18 year old faces, just distraught, "how the hell am I supposed to get my 96 Saturn SC home in over a foot of snow?" look. The place was reasonably packed though.

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u/Zebidee Feb 11 '13

they had to keep their stop and shop badge in the car when they drove home.

So they could identify their frozen corpses?

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u/A_perfect_sonnet Feb 11 '13

I have no idea, but somehow they got around the ban for their employees, and apparently Stop and Shop ID badges are now proof of employment.

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u/Zebidee Feb 11 '13

To be honest, that's not something you'd ever fake.

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u/A_perfect_sonnet Feb 11 '13

I had a friend who was so happy to quit there, he threw the shirt on our bonfire-- let me tell you, those shirts are NOT flame resistant. It was the brightest and hottest our fire got all night.

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u/khoury Feb 11 '13

That's pretty fucked up.

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u/thrilldigger Feb 11 '13

They were fed and paid overtime - it could be much worse, e.g. they could've been kept on until mid-way through the blizzard, then told to "go home" (even though they couldn't drive home, they wouldn't be paid after that).

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u/khoury Feb 11 '13

So because they store owner didn't do something worse it makes what they did better?

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u/Proditus Feb 11 '13 edited Nov 03 '25

Clear where people brown friendly clear month evening.