Getting into work

heretolearn_2

From an employer point of view we do notice the difference between those who make the effort and those who don't. Everyone managed to get in apart from 2 very new people, who had an excuse in that they are reliant on local transport that wasn't running reliably, but it was running so I do feel they could have tried a bit harder. They won't be paid for those days so maybe next time they'll think twice. We let those who came in go home an hour or so early to help them get home at a reasonable time.

MrsE_2

Madjock wrote: »

Why is it that car drivers are always the first to claim they can't get into work in bad weather? Bus drivers manage to do it, bus passengers manage to do it. Lazy !!!! spongers tbh.

Car drivers are often car drivers because they live somewhere with little or no public transport or work that bit further away where they live.

In east Surrey we had all buses cancelled some days, many buses cancelled other day & trains cancelled also (my nearest train station is too far to walk to anyway).

People who use public transport often work closer to where they live.

For example, I work 7 miles away. It takes me less than half an hour to get there, park & walk to office, leave 8.05am, arrive 8.30.

If I were to use public transport I would have to leave at 6.40, take 3 buses & do 4 bursts of walking.

Coming home my best option is 2 trains, 1 bus & 3 bursts of walking, to arrive in just before 6.30.

I get home at 5.25 in my car.

This journeys are NOT return journeys of each other, so would cost a bomb too.

Gemmy_2

We tried to get to work and did an 180degree spin as our back wheel locked up.
Buses not working, live a fair wack away from work, work sent a taxi for me.

ska_lover

MrsE wrote: »

Car drivers are often car drivers because they live somewhere with little or no public transport or work that bit further away where they live.

In east Surrey we had all buses cancelled some days, many buses cancelled other day & trains cancelled also (my nearest train station is too far to walk to anyway).

People who use public transport often work closer to where they live.

For example, I work 7 miles away. It takes me less than half an hour to get there, park & walk to office, leave 8.05am, arrive 8.30.

If I were to use public transport I would have to leave at 6.40, take 3 buses & do 4 bursts of walking.

Coming home my best option is 2 trains, 1 bus & 3 bursts of walking, to arrive in just before 6.30.

I get home at 5.25 in my car.

This journeys are NOT return journeys of each other, so would cost a bomb too.

This is my point entirely though. YOU choose to live in the sticks - and YOU choose to work where you work so stop moaning about it!!. Why should your workmates have to cover your work, because of what are essentially your life style choices? Surely when moving somewhere rural, you would take transport and work in to consideration - that would be common sense! And certainly not expect other people to carry the can for you. Its still a poor excuse. It seems you are making life difficult for yourself. Why not move nearer to work, or work nearer to where you live. The fact that it would cost a bomb is noones problem but yours, go tell someone who cares..

Kt8

lets all move house every time we change jobs/job location then eh, what a ridiculous post.

MrsE_2

ska_lover wrote: »

This is my point entirely though. YOU choose to live in the sticks - and YOU choose to work where you work so stop moaning about it!!. Why should your workmates have to cover your work, because of what are essentially your life style choices? Surely when moving somewhere rural, you would take transport and work in to consideration - that would be common sense! And certainly not expect other people to carry the can for you. Its still a poor excuse. It seems you are making life difficult for yourself. Why not move nearer to work, or work nearer to where you live. The fact that it would cost a bomb is noones problem but yours, go tell someone who cares..

I'm not moaning, just explaining why car drivers are affected by adverse weather conditions.
No one does my job when I'm not in, & if I'm off because I snow I have to make the hours up.

sagalout1954

If you are a manager you don't bother to try, just ring to make sure all the 'plebs' have struggled in and tell them YOU will be 'working from home'.................!!**

Personally I've not missed a day in any of the snow we've had this year, my little Hyundai i10 makes the 10 miles or so. BUT, I take a shovel, wellies, warm clothes and I don't use first gear, the lowest I go is second.

faithcecilia

Although its irrelevant for me this time round (I am a live-in carer!), I have never, ever missed a days work because of snow. At one point I worked 25miles away and still got in, albeit very late, when colleagues who lived on the same route but nearer didn't make it. In my experience, employers appreciate the effort staff make - in this particular job dress code was relaxed and we were once allowed to take taxis home and back in the next morning to save having to drive ourselves home.

I actually think we need a long, hard winter so that people realise that life doesn't have to stop - it would only take 6weeks or so of constant snow for pretty much everyone to be driving to work etc as they wouldn't be able to afford all that extra holiday! Its only fairly recently that we have started making such a drama out of it, after a number of milder years - when I was growing up it was common to trudge to and from school in snow so deep it came over the top of my wellies, and I never once had a day off because of it!

DCFC79

Well i eventually got through to reception(on tuesday) in the end to asked ot be put through to my manager which turned out to be worth it as another colleague who also didnt get to work on the tuesday (for family reasons) also said he the phone kept on ringing and ringing (as i experienced) and my story backed up what my colleagues story,

CJ_ROCKIN

I work for tesco and I was recently late for work by 15 mins but rang the store manager an hour before my shift to alert him of this, he said this was ok beacuse i had told him in advance, then I stayed 15 mins after my shift had finished to make the time back up but the next day my manager tried to make me sign a dissaplinary form for being late and not telling him i was going to be late what should i do?