I thought my 90 minute commute into work was bad yesterday. My 2 hour and 10 minute commute home made me appreciate the commute in. I spent 3 hours and 40 minutes traveling 60 miles. It’s days like yesterday that slowly but surely kill me. Only 10 or so years until retirement. Robmu1 and I always joke about retirement and how death will follow shortly thereafter. He sent me this Dilbert today.
Admin,
I can so relate. Left last night at 6:20 got home at 7:40. Morning commute left at 7:15 got in at 8:45. You got me beat yesterday, but over the week I’ll bet we are close to even, though my commute is 34 miles. We so need that flying car. I sure hop it has cup holders.
Bob.
Why would you set yourself up for such a long commute? Plenty of decent places to live closer to work, or change jobs.
admin, how do people manage to keep their jobs with commutes like that? I know people who have to clock in within a specific 3 minute window. Miss it three times and you are written up. Get written up twice in a 12 month period and they are fired. Do people get a lot of latitude due to routine issues with herd movement or is everyone still expected to be on time regardless?
Bullshit ,complaining about riding in a car .When I was young we had to walk 5 miles in the snow just to get to school. Pussies everyone.
I-S, you must have a union job. My old boss said back in his union days if a guy was going to clock in one second late, he just turned around and called in sick, it was easier to do that than to get written up and fired after 3 tardys.
You must live in boston near Cambridge or did you also have the pleausen
My commute is 70 – 80 minutes and it is only 18 miles! Of course, that is because I walk to the train station (15-20 minutes), then catch the train (30-40 minutes depending on which one and the stops it makes) and then walk from the train station to work (15 – 20 minutes) plus the waiting time for the train. I could drive to work or to the train station from home but rationalize that I am getting much fitter with the walks (which are brisk) and in some hilly terrain. Actually I know this is true because I put my work papers in a back back and it intially was pretty rough now it is no big deal. 🙂
My 9 minute commute is brutal, I see another car every once in a while.
Admin – I keep saying it.
Nothing is worth doing that. You need to change something, or it will kill you.
IS
The secret is to get up at 5:00 am, try to post 3 or 4 things on TBP and then get on the road by 6:30. I work in an office with about 85% women. I’m the first one in and one of the last ones out. I did convince my boss to let me work from home on Wednesdays because the commute was killing me.
I love when knuckleheads like john the bruce give me advice. They seem to think jobs that pay my level of wages and put my kids through college without debt are just sitting there 5 miles from my house. The nimrod actually wants me to move closer to the shithole of Philly rather than the rolling country hills where I now live.
Now I know why he joined the military.
I did the same commute horror all my life. Spent it on the Boston MBTA.
First a half hour drive in traffic to get to the bus station, then a fifteen minute wait to get into the parking lot as they collected money one at a time upon arrival. Then a half hour ride on the bus to the Harvard Square subway station. Ten minute wait for a train and a ten to fifteen minute subway, cattle car ride, into the office. Same fun coming back.
To say it sucked would really be an understatement.
I appreciate the reply admin but if a persons commute can vary by HOURS from day to day, I don’t see how employers tolerate it and employees remain employed. Maybe everyone recognizes that moving the herd to a fro in the big shitty areas is a problem and employers just have to accept it.
I’d go insane if I had a commute like yours. Living under a bridge might start to look attractive.
IS
Most of the people in my office take public transportation or live a lot closer than me. It’s an office. We don’t punch a clock. Our work is done mostly on computers, so people can easily work from home. As long as the job gets done, it doesn’t matter when you do it.
I already went insane. That’s why I run this site.
So I guess the poor saps who need to arrive at their jobs on time have to live close enough to work to get there on time. Is there an opportunity for you to work a week from home and a week at the office on a rotating basis?
Due to the time of the morning I leave work, I’m lucky if I see five cars on the way home and that includes a few minutes on the freeway. I currently have to be at work by 5:00pm so I encounter some traffic then but I travel side streets and still manage it in 20 minutes or so.
Arriving by 5:00pm isn’t set in stone but more of a courtesy to the guy I’m relieving. We like to have a 20-30 minute hand-off so we can go over the status of various processes that are running 24/7 so I usually arrive at 4:30. That usually applies mostly to M-W when we are actively growing crystals. The rest of the week no one really cares when you show up as long as the company gets the time you owe them even if you are just twiddling your thumbs.
The storm troopers actually made some good decisions during their last visit and everyone is back to getting along like peas and carrots. Still, I prefer nights as I am by myself!