snow days and the "exempt"

[Joel S. Berson]

I was never exempt or non-exempt, but when I was a student at Harvard 
we were told classes were never cancelled because of inclement weather.

And that was also true for the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving 
-- the professor of one class I was taking told us that Saturday was 
a normal class day (it was a Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday class), but 
that probably no one would be there.

Joel

At 9/20/2014 11:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Sep 20, 2014, at 3:34 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I was told that Harvard never had snow-days.
> >
> >
> > As is the case with "is," it depends on what you mean by "never." I've
> > never known a case wherein Harvard was, in fact, "closed" sensu stricto
> > because of the weather, but there are plenty of snow-days when Harvard is
> > technically open only because a skeleton-crew of upper management and
> > obligated underlings such as TA's, assistant profs, kitchen staff,
> > housekeepers, et sim. are on the job. And, since no one is obligated to
> > take a snow-day, lots of people come in voluntarily and add the snow-day to
> > vacation or whatever, if they're non-exempt. I used to do that during times
> > of no life, which was, sadly, most of the time.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
>
>Yeah, same here.  I guess they can't really be snow days even when 
>everyone is urged to leave campus (or "non-essential personnel" at 
>least), because they're not made up at the end of the school year.
>
>LH
>
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