Train Tickets on Credit Card

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lisyloo wrote: »

Hmm.....I don't think this is entirely reasonable, although I guess it does depend on the status of your role.
If you are prime minister for example you might expect to come back from your personal holidays.

For most of us mere mortals on normal salaries I don't think it's realistic to buy expensive tickets all the time on the off-chance there is a work requirement.
If I have an expectation of not working then I might buy non cancellable tickets.
If my employer wants me to cancel personal arrangements that I'd already booked then I'd need to have a discussion with my employer about my personal losses or simply say I'm not available at that time. There are occassions where you cannot be available for example a close family funeral or having a baby cannot be put off for your employers convenience.

Anyway I think it's harsh to suggest that anyone that ever gets asked to do extra hours always buys flexible tickets.
I agree with understanding the nature of what you are buying and whilst the train ticket system is complicated it's not hard to know the difference between flexible and non-flexible tickets.

Lisyloo,

If you read my post again in the 'thread' you'll see it was before the OP had mentioned that his employer had cancelled his booked time off, therefore I was making an assumption that he was asking doing something above and beyond his normal duties which it would be quite reasonable to raise question of any personal losses caused...... You've taken the OP's additional information to make my post unreasonable, whereas when I initially wrote it I was thinking more a couple of hours overtime or similar.

Also by role requires a degree of flexibility I meant something more formal than 'gets asked to do extra hours'

Agreed that most employers would not pressurise employees for situations such as funerals / babies arriving etc., although I fail to see that has anything to do with the OP as that is a completely different set of circumstances from those described.