Cant afford to go to work......

lufcgirl

Just be thankful you have a job...and a car!

I live 21.6 miles from my place of work and because I haven't passed my driving test it takes me 2 hours (sometimes 2 1/2) each way EVERY single day. So everyday I'm at work I'm on at least a 12 hour day before I'm home.

I envy your position to be fair!

mummytofour

KimYeovil wrote: »

No wonder the economy is in shreds when workers can't be bothered to travel 24 miles to get to work.

If you want work on your doorstep, go find some. If you can't find any, move home. If you don't want to flit, commute like millions of normal workers.

Complaining about a one hour's commute time? Unbelievable.

Harsh the Op has a life and had worked where they were for a while, the employer changed the location which IMHO is unfair and not on. Another story if the OP had chosen this life.
If it takes the OP 1 hr each ways that's 10 hrs a week of their time at min wage that's over £60 a week. Plus they have to pay to travel. Also it sound like the OP is in retail which is not normally well paid anyway. I think the employer is shafting the OP who I bet has no leg to stand on.

Ttp608

For those people claiming i am living to close to the edge regarding my finances i would like to add some background information.

My mortgage was a joint mortgage 3.5 times salary. My joint mortgage holder was made redundant just before i was moved. I could still afford the payments on the mortgage as i had alot of savings tucked away for such an occassion. These have all run out, my joint mortgage holder is still unemployed and only gets jsa, i have to support my family who are also all now unemployed as a result of the downturn.

My bills go up and up constantly. I have never been stupid with my finances i placed a £50k deposit on my house not the basic 10% which i saved very hard for.

I just wanted some advice regarding my issues at work not to be critised for things people have no understanding of, making assumptions helps no one least of all when these assumptions are negative and are used to put down an individual.

barnaby-bear

ttp608 wrote: »

For those people claiming i am living to close to the edge regarding my finances i would like to add some background information.

My mortgage was a joint mortgage 3.5 times salary. My joint mortgage holder was made redundant just before i was moved. I could still afford the payments on the mortgage as i had alot of savings tucked away for such an occassion. These have all run out, my joint mortgage holder is still unemployed and only gets jsa, i have to support my family who are also all now unemployed as a result of the downturn.

My bills go up and up constantly. I have never been stupid with my finances i placed a £50k deposit on my house not the basic 10% which i saved very hard for.

I just wanted some advice regarding my issues at work not to be critised for things people have no understanding of, making assumptions helps no one least of all when these assumptions are negative and are used to put down an individual.

You said your childcare/food costs had increased because of the move, if your OH isn't working could she/he be doing the childcare and making packed lunches etc. Perhaps an SoA on DFW board to look at cutting costs. The petrol is realistically costing you £50 a week extra if you can make savings elsewhere you could cancel this out.

barnaby-bear

ttp608 wrote: »

These have all run out, my joint mortgage holder is still unemployed and only gets jsa, i have to support my family who are also all now unemployed as a result of the downturn.

That's the problem, people are being relocated/made unemployed as companies shrink, move excess staff. Legally your employer can do this and if you make a fuss you'll move up the hit list. Other people will be similarly affected but if you can weather the storm whilst others fall off the ladder you'll be comparatively ok. Your priority is to eek out the money for as long as possible until you can get a better located job with this or another employer, a temporary batonning down the hatches, doing what you have to, to get through the next year or two; reassess the split on work at home to make the commute as bearable as possible, the OH cooks/cleans makes your lunch box etc. - cut expenses - try DFW - put council tax on 12 not 10 months, put mortgage I/O so motnhly outgoings lower to get through.

epsilondraconis

ttp608 wrote: »

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I just wanted some advice regarding my issues at work not to be critised for things people have no understanding of, making assumptions helps no one least of all when these assumptions are negative and are used to put down an individual.

Just because you don't get the feedback you would ideally want, doesn't mean that the advice is worthless.

If you only had posters indicating that your company was out of order in doing this and that you should make a stand within your organisation; you could potentially find yourself in a more precarious position because they may choose to make you redundant as a result of your complaining.

I can appreciate everything you are saying - the same thing happened to me. Instead of me driving 10 miles (on roads that didn't have any traffic), my organisation told us we had to change site and travel 35 miles (on very busy roads). Those 35 miles were a nightmare, it cost me more, it meant getting up at 6.30am and getting home about 7.30pm. I absolutely hated it, but it was lawful because it stated in our contract that they could do this.

As some people have indicated, in this current climate, we can all count ourselves very lucky that we have a job.

Hopefully your partner will soon find work. If I were in your position, I would just keep my head down and get on with it. When the climate picks up, look for a job closer to home.

onlyforboards_2

epsilondraconis wrote: »

Just because you don't get the feedback you would ideally want, doesn't mean that the advice is worthless.

If you only had posters indicating that your company was out of order in doing this and that you should make a stand within your organisation; you could potentially find yourself in a more precarious position because they may choose to make you redundant as a result of your complaining.

I don't think the op wants to only be told their company is out of order. I think they just want useful fact based advice rather than being told that the current economic climate is the fault of people like them who cannot "be bothered" to commute to work.

The OP sad they currently cannot afford the additional travel costs, that should be enough info without them being goaded into giving additional personal details just because someone wants to rant.

epsilondraconis

onlyforboards wrote: »

I don't think the op wants to only be told their company is out of order. I think they just want useful fact based advice rather than being told that the current economic climate is the fault of people like them who cannot "be bothered" to commute to work.

The OP sad they currently cannot afford the additional travel costs, that should be enough info without them being goaded into giving additional personal details just because someone wants to rant.

I think it is worth being mindful of the fact that we are currently in the depths of a serious recession and that there are probably many people reading this thread that have lost their jobs and would gladly take the place of the OP. The OP has posted on an internet forum that they are being asked to drive a few extra miles to work everyday and that they are finding it inconvenient and more costly.

You can't expect people to simply write, 'it is lawful and that there isn't a lot that the OP can do'. If the OP was in the position where they had lost their job and was desperate to find another and they had read this same thread, perhaps their perception of the situation would be a little different.

I am not saying that the OP shouldn't be annoyed at the situation. As I have already posted, I was in his same position, I think that perhaps they should look at what they have got and not what they haven't got. It is all a matter of perception.

barnaby-bear

epsilondraconis wrote: »

I think it is worth being mindful of the fact that we are currently in the depths of a serious recession and that there are probably many people reading this thread that have lost their jobs and would gladly take the place of the OP. The OP has posted on an internet forum that they are being asked to drive a few extra miles to work everyday and that they are finding it inconvenient and more costly.

You can't expect people to simply write, 'it is lawful and that there isn't a lot that the OP can do'. If the OP was in the position where they had lost their job and was desperate to find another and they had read this same thread, perhaps their perception of the situation would be a little different.

I am not saying that the OP shouldn't be annoyed at the situation. As I have already posted, I was in his same position, I think that perhaps they should look at what they have got and not what they haven't got. It is all a matter of perception.

It does sound like the OP is focussing on this one issue, where there are clearly other issues, an unemployed partner, subsidising other unemployed family? etc.... they've had a lot of changes but are focussing on this one - from the employers perspective they are only asking something agreed in the contract, involving under an hours commute (considered the norm for many) and only £50 extra petrol costs. The £50 extra petrol shouldn't be tipping the OP into financial turmoil - it's the other things.

max2009

6 months after you were first told and find yourself completely skint that you start to do something about it ?You should have sorted this within the first month of you getting told.