Should I confront my boss?

What you have here is a situation where you were basically threatened with some form of retribution if you didn't show. The insult is that you did your part, but your boss didn't fulfill her promise. And you may also want to consider that the worst may have happened and your boss was in the accident that you managed to avoid.

No matter what, the message was poorly conveyed by your boss, and a conversation with HR is probably the way to go. It shouldn't be personal, only professional. And don't throw anyone under the bus (even though you're angry and want to). It might sound something like this: "I received this message from (bosses name) and have to say that the message wasn't taken well by me. I was planning to come in unless it was just too dangerous, and I'm here. I'm concerned because (bosses name) didn't make it in and it was pretty clear she was planning to show up. I hope she is okay."

What you do when you take this approach is present the facts, show that you are a committed employee, and are showing concern for your fellow worker. You just put her on notice, and covered yourself at the same time.

First of all if my boss sent me an email like that I would of ignored it. My life is more important than a job!! I had a coworker recently go to work because some, no regard for their employee's life or well being, sh:tty boss stated he expected everyone to be at work when there was an ice storm outside. Well that stupid demand had my coworker/friend killed when he spun out of control on an icy patch of road and his cowoker in the passenger's side was paralyzed from the neck down!! I will never ever put my life in jeapordy for a stupid job let alone for a brown noser of a boss with no regard for the safety of his/her employees. I would talk to the human resources department and make a complaint about her. If you don't have an HR dept. then I would speak to her and let her know how you feel. She's an insensitive prick!!

Just let it go. It's not really worth it. What are you going to say? The boss can pretty much do whatever they want, so long as it's not against the law. Lying to you is not against the law.

Just let it go. Keep it documented that she didn't come in today. If you can, make sure you have some kind of proof. I don't know how your office works, but if there's a time clock or card you punch in, try and show that she wasn't there. Then, if this situation happens again, you can call in and let them know you won't be there. If she gives her bullshit about fairness to the other workers, you can let her know that she didn't come in when she thought it was too dangerous, so you're doing the same. Your life is more valuable than any job regardless...

To start with it sounds like your boss is a real ***!!!

When it snowed here quite a lot (England) then I didn't go into work, I don't think highly enough of my job to risk my car getting damaged and definitely not my personal safety, plus what usually would have taken me 20 minutes, would have taken me over 2 hours.

If it were me I would maybe ask her why she wasn't at work, not in an aggressive way but just so she will feel embarrassed to tell you, that's probably what I would do, not sure if its the right thing or not lol

Totally up to you it all depends on the kind of relationship you have with your boss if thats good surely you can go ahead and tell her if you dont its not a wise decision to do so but lets say what would happen if you do a Boss is Boss and Boss and Customer are not always right but they are never wrong nothing is going to change probably so sit back and relax take the bullet and try to enjoy the weather cause you cant do any thing about the weather too.

I would let it go. You don't know that she's at home in bed, unless she sent you a video of herself, and she may have the option to work from home (the higher level executives in my office have this option). Yes, you have a right to be angry (I feel the same way about my coworkers who called in); however, fume silently to yourself while at work and then call a friend or family member tonight to complain. It's not worth risking your career by confronting this, and your liable to be emotional during this confrontation and state things you'll regret. Best to just let it be... next time use a vacation day or a personal day - or tell your boss you'll need a ride to work because your car is stuck!

Try to have a better day... I know you guys got a ton of snow!

Wow, what a hypocrite! I think it would be a good idea to get several of your coworkers together to confront her together. If she thinks just one person has the guts to tell her about herself, then she won't see you as much of a threat, but if several get together and "have a talk" with her about it, she'll see YOU as the threat. Perhaps when she comes in to work, get the group together to go into her office, show her a printout of the e-mail that she sent, and tell her that "with all due respect, we feel disrespected and insulted that you'd send us this e-mail and then do the very thing you'd pressured us to not do."

First, though...it might be a good idea to make absolutely certain that she hasn't got the flu or something. :)

Before you confront your boss, go talk to human resources. Do not say a word to anyone. Save the email. I am pretty sure it is against the law for them to require you to be at work when driving conditions are unsafe.

Confronting her will probably not do any good. If you feel strongly about it, talk to HR, just to let them know. Bring in a copy of the email.

well...durh(:

confront her! if you had to risk your life just to drive yourself to work.

then she's not a good boss!