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Cannot afford to travel to new temp location

wubu · 2018-11-30 19:53:03

My employer wants me to travel to a new location for 8wks which will cost me £364 p/m which they will pay in exspenses but I’m not financially in a position where I have that as disposable and they refuse to prebook train and bus tickets and all I’m told is “you’ve not got a choice”. Also my travel time will be 2hrs due to…

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3 December 2018 at 10:42AM

Use a credit card if you can. A lot of places expect you to claim after the event (we do for fuel). It's not great, but any credit card usually has 30 days to pay it back. Get a 0% and you'll get up to two years to pay it off...for eight weeks, I would just go with it. My partner has to spend at least one night a week in a hotel, it's paid for but it's time dedicated to work (late meetings, social events prior) and therefore work you are doing gratis.

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