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To think I shouldn’t have to make the time back?

35 replies

losingpassionforlife · 17/10/2024 13:00

Sometimes I have to work in a different office location and it can take 3 hours to get there. I usually leave early (I’m still getting home for 7pm) and this is what my manager does to.

Then today she’s casually dropped it in about me making up the time for leaving early. I think it’s a big ask to do a 6 hour round travel in a day and to make up a further two hours. Aibu?

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Icanttakethisanymore · 17/10/2024 13:17

I think it depends on whether or not the other site is considered your place of work (not sure if you can have multiple 'places of work') and if it is considered your place of work, whether that was clear when you started.

Can you get to the other location on a train? Is your work something you can do on the train? I live quite a long way from my office and go once a week. I am able to work on the train so I am often working on my laptop at 7am but also often leave early to get home at a reasonable time.

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 17/10/2024 13:17

I presume you're not contracted to work from the far away location?

You certainly should not be asked to make up travel time from a location that isn't your contracted place of work.

46isthisit · 17/10/2024 13:17

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Nightmanagerfan · 17/10/2024 13:14

She's on thin ice. If you're being asked to travel to another location that counts as work time

KrisAkabusi · 17/10/2024 13:13

Where does your contract say is your place of work? If it doesn't specifically say '3-hour away office', then you're fine.

AnotherDelphinium · 17/10/2024 13:11

I’d pretend to have misunderstood, and clarify with her that she meant being paid overtime for the extra time you’re spending travelling to the office.

Check your contract, but for us if they want you somewhere different to your permanent place of work it’s expected travel from the office to the other location is done in work time or paid.

Otherwise rock up at your normal office at starting time, and then travel to the other location, ensuring you leave in sufficient time to be back at your office for finishing time.

Shinyandnew1 · 17/10/2024 13:11

Sometimes I have to work in a different office location and it can take 3 hours to get there. I usually leave early

How early are you leaving? What’s the deal with travel usually-are you still expected to work eg 9-5 regardless of which office you’re in?

Lifestooshort71 · 17/10/2024 13:11

Our sites were scattered across the same borough but I was based at one. If I had to go elsewhere, I was expected to work the same length of shift however long the journey was - in my contract 'to work anywhere in the borough as necessary'. Worked for the council, it was shit.

Floofydawg · 17/10/2024 13:08

Absolutely not. I would be taking time back for extra hours working, as travelling to another location is still work.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 17/10/2024 13:04

That’s ridiculous.

I’m at another site now and my manager includes travel time as our hours.