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Can work expect you to travel 2.5 hours to work and 2.5 hours back ?

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  • starrystarry
    starrystarry Posts: 2,481 Forumite
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    Even at average walking pace you can cover 6.6 miles in 2 hours. Its a no brainer...just walk.
  • Undervalued
    Undervalued Posts: 9,774 Forumite
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    cduuffo13 wrote: »
    I understand that its my problem at the end of the day its just Ive never been in this situation before. I am buying a cheap £300 runaround next week but min wage and to get £300 is about 2 weeks for me.


    I wont have £300 until 2 weeks. I have been their for 3 years I like my job and I have been a good asset to them considering the compliments I have gained and customers feedback but for them to not allow my leave for 1 week as its "short notice" I only found out yesterday the guy I share with is off next week.


    I totally understand its my problem but I just find it hard they can expect me to still get to work :/ when considering I haven't got my car wasn't exactly my plan and something I could control.


    weekly taxi rate sounds like a good idea I will plan that tomorrow


    But even less is it under their control.

    Sorry but if the employer wants to play hardball then it is totally your problem to get to work on time.

    Buy or borrow a cheap bike?
  • Stevie_Palimo
    Stevie_Palimo Posts: 3,306 Forumite
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    Pitch a tent up outside your employers office and save all the messing about, You can be the last to leave your home for work every day until you have saved up for the car.
  • StuC75
    StuC75 Posts: 2,065 Forumite
    If your going with the bike option, make sure you check out the 'Elevation profile' eg is there many hills on the way..

    You can use MapMyRun to log the route and will see quite easily the profile..

    I bike over 6 miles to work everyday (do a much longer route on the way home for exercise), and its largely downhill on the way so not so tough (have facilities in work for shower and change so ok if warm or weather gets wet)..
  • pjread
    pjread Posts: 1,106 Forumite
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    I was on side (despite a 2.5hr each way commute myself) until I heard it was only 6 miles. Why on earth *wouldn't* you walk or bike it, especially when it'd be quicker and cheaper (free!) as well??
  • Transformers
    Transformers Posts: 411 Forumite
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    Why have you titled this thread 'Can work expect you to travel 2.5 hours to work and 2.5 hours back?'.

    They don't expect you to commute five hours a day - they expect you make the journey of SIX miles to work - the same distance it has always been from when you agreed to take the job. Not an unreasonable expectation is it? To want an employee to attend work as per their contract.

    They haven't moved the business, you've just hit an obstacle of your own making.

    Having read your other threads you do seem to see your situation as everyone's fault but your own.

    You need to start taking some responsibility for your own life and for your own decisions.
  • usefulmale
    usefulmale Posts: 2,627 Forumite
    But you are expecting them to run understaffed at short notice...

    And how would it be different if the OP phoned in sick?
  • Takeaway_Addict
    Takeaway_Addict Posts: 6,538 Forumite
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    usefulmale wrote: »
    And how would it be different if the OP phoned in sick?
    Because one is a choice, the other is not.

    Companies will cope being understaffed of course but it does not mean that they should expect to.
    Don't trust a forum for advice. Get proper paid advice. Any advice given should always be checked
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
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    OP - please explain to everyone how it takes 3 bus journeys, a train journey and 2.5 to 3 hours to travel a distance of just 6.6 miles??
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • szam_
    szam_ Posts: 642 Forumite
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    OP - please explain to everyone how it takes 3 bus journeys, a train journey and 2.5 to 3 hours to travel a distance of just 6.6 miles??

    It doesn't make any sense. Not even the worst bus services would run such terrible end to end routes unless you literally live in a field in the middle of nowhere... and I used to live in a terrible area for buses.

    I can walk to and from work (2 miles) in 35 minutes at a leisurely pace. So it'd be just under 2 hours for 6.6 miles. Stick some music you enjoy on and you're good to go.

    I can cycle to work (and I'm unfit at the moment due to health problems preventing me from various exercise, cycling is one I can do from time to time) 2 miles (all uphill) in 15 minutes, 8 minutes back downhill. I can do my 10 mile "circuit" I put together in 50 minutes, an hour if I'm behind the missus. 6.6 miles for me would be between 30 and 50 minutes depending on inclines etc.

    These are just some examples to show there are far better alternatives than this, 3 buses and a train, route.
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