Yeah, thanks for moving me, that's great

[Evan the Shaggy]

I knew this was coming for awhile, but it has finally happened. My job has moved me to a different office.

What this means is that I now have to drive an extra ten miles to get to work, I have to go through two different toll booths on the way there and the way back(I had to go through none for my old office.), I know absolutely no one here and was finally starting to get to know a lot of people at my old location, and I had a window in my office which is now replaced with a smaller, windowless one.

I started this job about a month and a half ago and it was hard enough to adjust to the working world with that, but its like they're just trying to make it worse and worse. Moving here makes absolutely no difference in how I do my job or anything.

I'm really contemplating asking them to start working from home a number of days a week or just quit the job altogether.

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

Why don't you take the Metro?

[Evan the Shaggy]

Why don't you take the Metro?

No metro stops near Reston.

[SteveZegers]

Are they paying you for the extra travel expenses? Cause they really should.

[Evan the Shaggy]

Are they paying you for the extra travel expenses? Cause they really should.


I'm going to ask about it, because this move is basically like reducing my pay by a hundred dollars or so a month through gas and tolls. Worse office, farther away, tolls, God its like I was demoted or something.

[RebootedCorpse]

Not to be a jerk, but quitting a job because of a 10-mile office transfer seems kinda goofy.
What are you gonna say when an interviewer asks you why you left your last position after less than 2 months?

[Evan the Shaggy]

Not to be a jerk, but quitting a job because of a 10-mile office transfer seems kinda goofy.
What are you gonna say when an interviewer asks you why you left your last position after less than 2 months?

I'm not really going to quit. I'm just venting.

Its just a tough situation.

[Kensington]

Just remember to keep both hands on the wheel at all times. 10 and 2, my friend, 10 and 2.

[MIKE D]

Why don't you take the Metro?


I remember searching for the perfect words
I was hoping you might change your mind
I remember a soldier standing next to me
Riding on The Metrooo-oooo--oooooooo.

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

I remember searching for the perfect words
I was hoping you might change your mind
I remember a soldier standing next to me
Riding on The Metrooo-oooo--oooooooo.
Is that Berlin? :mistrust:

Good luck, Evan. Commuting around the area is a bitch.

[PoWerSurge]

I knew this was coming for awhile, but it has finally happened. My job has moved me to a different office.

What this means is that I now have to drive an extra ten miles to get to work, I have to go through two different toll booths on the way there and the way back(I had to go through none for my old office.), I know absolutely no one here and was finally starting to get to know a lot of people at my old location, and I had a window in my office which is now replaced with a smaller, windowless one.

I started this job about a month and a half ago and it was hard enough to adjust to the working world with that, but its like they're just trying to make it worse and worse. Moving here makes absolutely no difference in how I do my job or anything.

I'm really contemplating asking them to start working from home a number of days a week or just quit the job altogether.

And makes it more fun that those tollboths raised their pricing to 50 cents each time ya fly through

That sucks man

[DrMachine]

what's your total commute distance?

[Meteornotes]

That sucks. Driving in the DC area is the suck. Is there a reason why they moved you to a different office? And yeah, I'd ask about working at home, though sadly a lot of employers won't let people do it. Which sucks...

dt

[Evan the Shaggy]

what's your total commute distance?

Now, it'll be something like 40 miles everyday.

Meteornotes: The team was moved for some reason and I had to go with them, which is making me think I should just switch teams to get back to my old office. Its dumb because this has nothing really to do with my actual work, it seems like they moved just to move.

[MIKE D]

Is that Berlin? :mistrust:

Good luck, Evan. Commuting around the area is a bitch.

Yes. My 80's are showing.

[Fourthman]

Yes. My 80's are showing.
Mine too, first thing I thought of (and then I saw your post).

[DrMachine]

Now, it'll be something like 40 miles everyday.

one way? or round trip?

[Evan the Shaggy]

one way? or round trip?

Round trip.

[DrMachine]

Round trip.

that's definitely close to too much...right now I'm at about 25-30, but around here it's considered short distance

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

I commute 40 each way right now. I'm tied to this job until my security clearance comes through (It's been more than a year, and a co-worker who put in for hers just before me got it a few weeks ago).

[PoWerSurge]

My commute is 2 miles :D

[Meteornotes]

Meteornotes: The team was moved for some reason and I had to go with them, which is making me think I should just switch teams to get back to my old office. Its dumb because this has nothing really to do with my actual work, it seems like they moved just to move.

If you can switch teams, do it. Seems like it would be a better deal for you.

I quit my last job because I was driving about 70 miles each way, and spending about three-four hours a day in my car. I tried setting up an alternate work schedule, tried not taking lunch to leave an hour early, tried to suggest working at home one day a week, but nope, I had to be there every day so when the manager made a daily pass through the office, I'd be seen. It would be nice if employers would see that as long as the work is getting done, good employees should be allowed to find alternatives to hell commutes to their job, but no...

dt

[King of Mars]

that's definitely close to too much...That really depends on the pay.

[Evan the Shaggy]

If you can switch teams, do it. Seems like it would be a better deal for you.

I quit my last job because I was driving about 70 miles each way, and spending about three-four hours a day in my car. I tried setting up an alternate work schedule, tried not taking lunch to leave an hour early, tried to suggest working at home one day a week, but nope, I had to be there every day so when the manager made a daily pass through the office, I'd be seen. It would be nice if employers would see that as long as the work is getting done, good employees should be allowed to find alternatives to hell commutes to their job, but no...

dt

I think this resistence to working at home is really dumb. It seems like people are only adhering to it because people had to do it in the past. For many jobs out there, my own included, there's simply no need to come into the office everyday.

We have cellphones, the internet, computers, etc that allow us to stay in contact with one another regardless of our location but some people just feel this need that "work" has to be done at a certain place.

I think my office is a little more lax about this and I'm really going to push for it.

[Evan the Shaggy]

That really depends on the pay.

Its quite good, especially for a just out of college grad. Its not like this is gonna break me or anything, its just a big annoyance cause I just think about "Oh, there goes an extra hundred dollars a month, hmmmm what could I have used that on instead of tolls and extra gas?"

[King of Mars]

Its quite good, especially for a just out of college grad. Its not like this is gonna break me or anything, its just a big annoyance cause I just think about "Oh, there goes an extra hundred dollars a month, hmmmm what could I have used that on instead of tolls and extra gas?"Not to tell ya what to do but, if the pay is good, I'd just suck it up and deal. Really, forty miles round trip is not that bad. As for not knowing people at your new place, well, ya don't really go to work to make friends. It's nice if it happens but it shouldn't be an expectation.