Giving lifts to work colleague who I dislike

GoldenShadow

I would say you're trying to cycle every day. Might not always happen but you won't know til you get up and decide if you feel like it or not. So they best get a taxi in case.

JQ.

GoldenShadow wrote: »

I would say you're trying to cycle every day. Might not always happen but you won't know til you get up and decide if you feel like it or not. So they best get a taxi in case.

This. When next at work tell the team loudly how you've spent the Bank Holiday buying wet weather cycling gear, so rain will no longer stop you cycling. A 25 minute cycle commute is nothing - the more you do it the easier it will become. Also work out how much money you're saving by cycling and spend the money on something you want.

Bogof_Babe

Fill the passenger seat and back seat with a heap of black bin liners, and say you're helping a friend move home, but it's all a bit tricky so you're looking after her stuff for a while and have nowhere else to keep it. The bin bags can be full of balloons or your spare eiderdown - bulky but not heavy enough to add weight and therefore fuel costs to your car.

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Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Fill the passenger seat and back seat with a heap of black bin liners, and say you're helping a friend move home, but it's all a bit tricky so you're looking after her stuff for a while and have nowhere else to keep it. The bin bags can be full of balloons or your spare eiderdown - bulky but not heavy enough to add weight and therefore fuel costs to your car.

I like this

StrongWork

Tell them you have TB.

Cough.

A lot.

LandyAndy

barbiedoll wrote: »

What a cheek!....You should say that your car is currently off the road and that you need them to pick you up in their taxi for the early shift. Get the taxi and don't offer to pay towards the fare. (I daresay the manager claims the fare on expenses anyway)

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I very much doubt it. Not many businesses will pay for employees to get to work.

colino

OP, not only are they taking the !!!! with you at work, they are demonstrating their power over you by you taking that, then meekly providing a taxi service for them too. There's nothing confrontational about you telling them to make their own transport arrangements, you see quite enough of them during working hours.
That may help your credibility slightly at work, it can't do any harm, otherwise you'll be forever more the rug to be walked over.
Don't make up daft excuses or, "reasons" that you can't keep on doing them a favour.

CGG

I feel for you, OP. You know that you are being used and are at a loss as to how to get out of this bind. I cannot offer any practical advice, but didn't want to read your thread and leave. Hope you can come up with something - soon.

almillar

So you've actually got a bike and you really are cycling into work. Great, you've got an actual, real excuse!
'Sorry, I'm cycling tomorrow, weather permitting'.

angel00079

Maybe the fact that they can no longer count on a lift means that they will stop relying on you. After all I don't know how long shifts are planned in advance but I assume that it wouldn't be on the day. There are a million reasons why you may or may not cycle in. Only thing would be getting a lift back if you were on the same shift.