As of 8/1 I’ll be at a new office in Webphone in the next state over. I was originally assigned to an office the next state over, only to be told not to come because there is no space and stay home. This was all because Welday didn’t know how to layout a floor plan for everyone in his org. But at the beginning of the year I was told that I had to go to a POP office a little bit upstate, 50 miles round trip, $14 a day in tolls. A few weeks ago I was told that I had to go to next state over because my building isn’t good enough. Chad was looking at a report and noticed that 12 people in his org were working in this POP building and he wants them moved to one of the 3 buildings the next state over. I was at least given a choice - one is roughly the same distance as now, the other 2 are way out of reach. The difference is that the toll cost alone is now $30 per day plus gas costs. So I’m going to a building we pay rent on vs a building we own and need to pay more to get to work everyday. So now it’s going to cost over $7K to go to work every year plus gas costs. How much should someone have to pay to go to work? Plus how does someone like Chad justify making an employee spend that much yearly? Just su-k it up and be happy to have a job??
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Get one of those Japanese sleep tubes installed in your office. Drive in Monday morning and home Wednesday afternoon. Problem solved.
$7.98
They aren't making you do anything
You are making the choice
Ha Ha, I am retired, class of 2020 🧑🎓
“In my 47 years I never really concerned myself on how much I should be spending to go to work. “
Perhaps you should have. You could be retired by now. 47 years. lol.
get a 4x4 and drive on the unpaved areas next to the toll booth
I mean, seriously though, that situation su-ks. I'd look for a new job if I were you. eff att
As they say things are relative to times you’re living in. In the 80’s the interest rates were between 9.78 and 12.9. I purchased a house with 10% rate. At the time my income was only $22,132.00 a year my husband was around $28,500. It was tough at times to meet those house payments, along with other expenses. It wasn’t a cake walk like everyone seems to think we had it back then. Good luck to all of you that are going through this crazy upside down world we are in.
T is life. My first born and left leg.
“Probably because for most of your life it didn’t cost ~50% or more of your income to just pay for rent or a mortgage. Kinda changes the calculus a bit when a 3 bedroom house a decent distance from your office is > $1 million a year.”
Typo, meant >= $1 million.
Made an edit, shouldn’t have “a year” but I suppose that was obvious.
“I don’t get it. In my 47 years I never really concerned myself on how much I should be spending to go to work. I have worked as close as 5 miles away from home to 120 miles round trip. I’ve worked at locations where you had to pay for parking. It is what it is, just a part of the working person life. Had to adjust a few things here and there but it was never a real issue for me.”
Probably because for most of your life it didn’t cost ~50% or more of your income to just pay for rent or a mortgage. Kinda changes the calculus a bit when a 3 bedroom house a decent distance from your office is > $1 million a year.
Besides, we’ve seen that there’s a better way, making an employee burn $7000+ a year in tolls and parking is effectively a pay cut after they’ve worked from home for 5+ years and performed their job duties.
There’s no good justification to cram all these employees in these dirty small offices and make people fight over parking, waste gas, money, etc.
You’re still in your mother’s basement, aren’t ya?
Flabbergasted that it hasn’t dawned on you that they don’t give one flying flip.
THEY WANT YOU TO QUIT.
Why is that so hard to understand for some?
OP- you can quit and work at the 7-11 a block away from your house. That will save you on cost.
Problem solved.
I don’t get it. In my 47 years I never really concerned myself on how much I should be spending to go to work. I have worked as close as 5 miles away from home to 120 miles round trip. I’ve worked at locations where you had to pay for parking. It is what it is, just a part of the working person life. Had to adjust a few things here and there but it was never a real issue for me.
If you’re not bleeding; you’re not working.
RTO= Layoff Exercise
They want to make it as inconvenient as possible in hopes that people will leave.
Move on you clearly don’t want to be here
I make up my losses being an Uber driver. I usually pick up someone on the way from Philadelphia to Bedminster ($26 ride). Then after badging in, getting coffee, jiggling the mouse and making sure some folks see me, I head out again and do 2 or 3 rides, pick up ($8-$16). I head back and grab lunch with my walking club at the office. I pop by and help a few of the boomers with VLOOKUP issues. Then I head out and run a few errands and the nearby Costco. Love Costco. Then I flip on the Uber app, grab 1 more fare before heading back to the office to pack up. I make sure to say goodbye to a few folks, tell them my kids have to be picked up and I will be online later (shoves laptop in desk drawer). I flip on Uber and find my afternoon passenger to score another $20 (people pay less on ride home). Rinse, repeat. You get what you get, don’t get upset.
Not all roads are toll. Pick a free route and get over it. Oh, you can move on and change employment if you have the spine.
If you are able to work remotely and they require you to go somewhere else, that is business travel and should be reimbursable for both your time and mileage. Lawsuits to this effect are in the courts or so I hear.
I don’t feel so bad about my commute anymore.
You should spend anywhere from $1-$100 per day going to the office… What’s wrong you don't like erasing your bonus and merit increase on Biden inflated gas and tolls? Cmon man, it’s good for the company. Stankey needs you in there so he can report higher headcount numbers for the tax breaks. All so you can be less productive and more miserable. The goal is to make you quit.
All for the T tax breaks. What a joke
This post feels like a pathetic cry for help. Do whats best for your own personal situation.
The obvious answer is, wait for it!
If you want to keep your job, you have to pay whatever it costs to commute. If not, you can quit.
Why is this so complicated? There is no third option.
Submit T&E for reimbursement
This is all part of the plan to make you…
Ridiculous.
Just to make Stankey happy when he looks at his little reports.