Scared walking to work in early hours of morning

fluffyfox

hi,

I do some maintenance work for a few hours the start time is 6am. Where i work is not too far away so i always walk. I do not have a car. Half the time i get a lift to work but now my colleague has left (no one else can pick me up) i'm stuck walking down a road that is lite up with houses, but is next to woodland on the otherside. Sometimes there are lots of cars going down the road, sometimes not.
I have been doing this job for months, but recently i just don't feel safe, i 'm thinking of leaving, do you think this is a good reason to leave a job you enjoy?

comeandgo

Absolutely not. Get a rape alarm, it makes such a deafening noise the people n the houses will hear it.

Lioness_Twinkletoes

fluffyfox wrote: »

hi,

I do some maintenance work for a few hours the start time is 6am. Where i work is not too far away so i always walk. I do not have a car. Half the time i get a lift to work but now my colleague has left (no one else can pick me up) i'm stuck walking down a road that is lite up with houses, but is next to woodland on the otherside. Sometimes there are lots of cars going down the road, sometimes not.
I have been doing this job for months, but recently i just don't feel safe, i 'm thinking of leaving, do you think this is a good reason to leave a job you enjoy?

No, if I'm honest. You've stated that you're walking down a road with houses and cars so it's not like you're trudging through the woodland itself.


You could get a bike - that'd make the journey quicker and probably less scary.


Make you are wearing hi visibility clothing and maybe take a torch.

Tammykitty

I wouldn't be happy walking that - but cycling it seems like a good idea.

DCFC79

Its not a good enough reason if you dont have another job to go too.

sadie22

shame to give up a job you enjoy, as others have said, get a bike, rape alarm on a necklace and lights on yer bike and high Vis jacket. Later someone else may start at your work place and give u a lift.

boliston

there is probably more risk of being injured by a carelessly driven vehicle than someone nasty coming out of those woods

ohreally

What is your actual concern?

Savvy_Sue

And walk confidently! Presuming as it's a maintenance job you have sensible shoes on, unclear if you male or female but dress for walking not partying.

If it's a large employer, ask if they could run a session on - not sure what to call it! Not self-defence exactly, but something similar: safety consciousness.

fluffyfox

yeh, i m female. my concern is that its very dark sometime very quiet, and i get worried that someone could come out the wood with a weapon or something.

lincroft1710

Any history of attacks on people by someone lurking in that woodland?