Commuting

[lederhosen]

Have realised that previous calculations underestimated time for bus journey and waiting-for-bus. Average daily commute, return trip, is closer to five hours than four.

*grumble*

Still trying to get hang of sleeping sitting up. Railway seats, while reasonably comfortable for sitting upon, do not, alas, recline.

Comments

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

(nods nods) Tres annoying. Although, unforutnately, once you get exhausted enough it'll come naturally. Speaking from Tokyo experience...

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Aie. Best of luck in getting them to change their minds about telecommuting.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Probably won't happen without a change in the Chain of Command - my boss's boss is a fanatical micromanager :-(

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Is his attitude likely to change if it means losing you? I imagine this is not a situation you'd be willing to contemplate until you got to wits' end, but having worked a job which required six hours' commuting to work eight and lasted a week, I know that it can come to that - and you're probably valuable enough to them that they might be willing to compromise under those circumstances...

Don't kill yourself for the sake of the job. Even if it's a good one. *hug*

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

*noddle* At this point I'm not sure just what it would take to change her mind. I suspect it's probably best to put in some time and establish my bona fides before trying to negotiate days-at-home. My semi-plan is to wait until they want me to stay late, or work on a weekend, and explain that this is not possible, but maybe if they were prepared to be flexible I'd be flexible too...

We'll see.

(Looking forwards to the weekend, but :-)