I'm the snow miser.

Isn't it weird how, when faced with a budget crisis, some employees (I'm not naming any names...) are considered "non-essential" and therefore get days off without pay, and yet, when the streets are covered in ice and snow, the governor declares a state of emergency, and the mayor begs everyone to stay home, those same employees are like, the only ones required to come in to work? Because they are so..."essential"?

It's downright wacky, I tell you.