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Is there any laws around flexible working?
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Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »But your wife and 3 kids are needlessly getting up and spending the same amount of time overall every day in getting you to work...so getting a lift and just reading a book would be better all round but you won't even contemplate this.
If it's less than 10 miles, can you bike it?
I had been thinking of buying a little scooter, a learner licence I believe is enough and they can be picked up for about £500, But they are not good in bad weather and I live in rural area with roads which are not gritted, but I think i'll have to look into it more, alternatively this may be the push I need to get a new job, I've been thinking about it for quite a while but never got around to it, the time may be now0 -
Is there no public transport links that you can use?0
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I used to live 10 miles from work, I had a honda PC 50 (later upgraded to a C90) and would ride to and from work in all weathers - with the right gear, it's not too bad (and think what a hero you'll be to the missus, putting yourself through that just so she can stay in bed a while longer
) If you do come off, generally your going so slowly you don't get seriously injured, again, the right clothing will help.
My pensioner MIL and my own mother also used to ride a 4 mile round trip on their mopeds in all weathers 3 or 4 times a week - are you a man or a mouse?Please forgive me if my comments seem abrupt or my questions have obvious answers, I have a mental health condition which affects my ability to see things as others might.0 -
I'm sorry but you'd rather drag your wife and children out in the cold unecessarily than go with your co-worker and sit for an hour? In which you could read or nap or whatever.... I'd see that as doing the nice thing for your wife and children.. its not really a hardship is it?#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
Gotta go with the others, get up an hour earlier mate and go with your colleague and read for an hour or maybe start doing a course?
An hour is not a long time really if it helps your missus, even whilst you are looking for work.The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!
If I give you advice it is only a view and always always take professional advice before acting!!!
4 people on the ignore list....Bliss!0 -
So you get an hour early, OR your wife, and the baby and the school age child/ren get up an hour early.
The options aren't very evenly weighted are they?"On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.0
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