Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
If the option were there to telecommute, I would. Unfortunately, the nature of my work is non-transportable. OK, I could bring my work home with me, but it's generally considered a bad idea to remove BSL-2 & 3 pathogens from the lab. That's the unfortunate reality with biologicals manufacturing; cells and viruses don't care if it's snowing, icing, etc. They just keep growing and someone has to come in and tend to them.
If you won't ever question the "has to", under any circumstances, I guess you're just fated to have to come into work no matter what, fire earthquake tsunami insurrection or whatever. OTOH, if you got killed trying to come in to work, the cells and viruses wouldn't care about that either, but you sure wouldn't be showing up at work to "tend to them". Something to think about.