A Snow Day Is One WAHM’s Nightmare

WHEC:

Snow day is a fun day for some students in Victor. Instead of hitting the books, they’re hitting the sledding hill by the high school. But it’s a different story for work at home parents.

“I thought not today!” Jen McKinley said. “What’s the luck? Of all the days.”

McKinley compiles data for a healthcare consulting firm. Today was her latest deadline.

“I have to get ten reports printed and FedExed by the end of the day. So doing that with them here is a little tricky,” she said. Them are her three children and Abi from next door. On a regular day they would be in school and mom would be crunching numbers. Today she’s making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. McKinley is one of 20 million Americans who work at home.

Not a single school district in Monroe County was closed Tuesday.

“So we made the best of it,” Peter Steigerwald said. “We put our warm clothes on did a little shoveling and came down and had a little snow ball fight.” But then is was on the bus for his sons and back to work.
For Jen McKinley, work at home turned into stay at home. The work was just another thing effected by the weather.

“Its been okay,” she said. “I haven’t got much done yet. But it’s about 1 o’clock, so I still have the afternoon to go.”

By 5:30, Jen McKinley reported that she finished her work and sent it off in time.