If you keep panic buying fuel you'll be homeschooling again!😆

[FishesWithWishes]

Teachers need to teach in schools don't they?

[MarshaBradyo]

I’m in SE London I doubt many drive to school

[LongCOVID]

@Porfre

Theres absolutely no queues or problems where I am

No queues here either... all petrol stations have no fuel at all!

[Comedycook]

[quote Choice4567]@Comedycook I was just looking at that. My 20 minute drive becomes an hour and a half by bus. I can’t get there and back with dropping off and picking up my children. Unless work would be happy for me to work 4 hours instead of 7![/quote]
For those of us who have worked in London an hour and a half commute is quite normal.... literally could never drive to work in central London. No parking plus congestion zone

[CandyLeBonBon]

@Patapouf

lots of teachers also live within walking distance of school and have access to public transport.

I'm not sure another kind of panic mongering is helpful? I think the worst of the petrol queuing non-sense is probably over by now.

I wish it was. most petrol stations are closed here because this nonsense has continued

[Drinkyourweaklemondrink]

We have had so many cases of C-19 in our school that we have been asked not to lift share! Its down a lane and the first bus that goes anywhere near it arrives at 10.30am due to COVID cutbacks.
If we can't fill our tank we are screwed

[MadeOfStarStuff]

Waiting for the “DC’s teacher can’t get to work because they made frivolous journeys at the weekend, AIBU to think they should have saved their fuel to come teach my PFB rather than get groceries” threads if schools are affected by staff shortages

[itsgettingwierd]

Sad but true fact.

Ours is already on emergency plan step 1 due to absence due to illness.

[Strictly1]

@shouldistop

I've never worked anywhere that would accept me saying I had no fuel as a reason to not come to work.

But if you can't get petrol and it's the only means of getting in what do you suppose people do?

[DobbyTheHouseElk]

I’m sure we can help our teachers if they can’t get in. If we all shared transport.

[itsgettingwierd]

@shouldistop

I've never worked anywhere that would accept me saying I had no fuel as a reason to not come to work.

This isn't just "no fuel" though.

Same as those who have covid and are symptomless or very mild. Work have to accept absence as sick even if you are well enough to attend.

[bigbluebus]

I dream of it encouraging everyone locally to walk to school - we live 1/2 mile from school and most of the children go in cars (and the cars return afterwards so it's not parents rushing off to work). Sadly I don't think it will make any difference as the fuel stations around here are still stocked - we even made it to the BBC news this morning with the now famous Phil McCann!

[Gimlisaxe]

I was thinking about this, this morning, I assumed that with no fuel people would have to get public transport like a bus, then I realised I had no idea how you fuel a bus. Never seen on in a petrol station.

Once I figured that out. I assume you have to rule out buses, leaving trains, which is going to be interesting for some schools, that don't have a train station near them.

What I concluded is that it is going to be far easier to do, is when schools are finished for the day, someone comes along and locks all the teachers into their brand new cage home, then lets them out again in the morning ;)

[Strictly1]

BTW I have not used my car at all this weekend to save petrol for work because I want/need to get in but if this madness continues the only thing I'll be able to do is sleep in school - not willing to do that.

[PeskyRooks]

Yes great post @American Tie we need to stop tearing chunks out of each other and look up to where the blame belongs

[TeenTitan007]

I wonder if as a society we are going to come to a grinding halt with no schools, no groceries, no deliveries, no Amazon ...in a few days?!
Better stock up those loo rolls if not anything else..

[icedcoffees]

@shouldistop

I've never worked anywhere that would accept me saying I had no fuel as a reason to not come to work.

What do you propose people do, then? Fly to work? Teleport? Magic carpet?

If there's no fuel, there's no fuel.

[IsThisIt2021]

I’ll be shocked if ours closes due to the fuel crisis, all but 1 of the school staff live closer to the school than I do and we walk!

[OxanaVorontsova]

👀

[DdraigGoch]

@FishesWithWishes

Who on earth is voting IABU? It is what it is panic buyers... Your kids will be sent home for a lack of teachers, surely MN's worst nightmare based on last year just gone?!

It's obvious, isn't it? Teachers should be spending more time teaching kids useful skills like how to drive HGVs instead of inconsequential stuff like the alphabet and how to count to ten. They've obviously brought this upon themselves.

I expect every teacher to move to within the impossibly small catchment area before Monday morning. If they can't get fuel for a moving van, they'll just have to get the PE class to push.

For the avoidance of doubt (knowing what Mumsnet is like), the above is not intended to be taken entirely seriously.

[Boredhimtodeath]

I have 3/4 of a tank and on local Facebook groups it has been reported that all of the local petrol stations have closed - I can commute to school until Wednesday.
I live rurally with a 32 mile commute and the first bus is at 8:10 and then it would be two trains and a bus/taxi on the other end, so there is no way I can get to work for 8:30, it will cost me £23 a day to commute to work and that money just doesn’t exist! So whether my boss accepts the excuse or not I won’t be able to get there unless he fancies picking me up. I budget to pay for £60 petrol per week so that is less than 3 days public transport I could afford realistically.

[flumposie]

@JesusInTheCabbageVan
I've walked to the school I teach at for the last 19 years so need to give me a piggyback

[PurpleDaisies]

Divide and conquer at its finest.

[Moonface123]

Humans are actually quite good at adapting, l am not losing sleep over another storm in a teacup.

[IsThisIt2021]

@DdraigGoch think DS2 will think that’s an excellent PE lesson. Beats the yoga in the classroom they currently have going on —he was sick of it after the 2nd lesson and that was in September 2020–

[Mommabear20]

It's absolutely ridiculous! We queued for over an hour today, if I hadn't been in less than a quarter of a tank and needed it for work in the morning I wouldn't have bothered! My brother in law hasn't been able to get any where he lives and is now having to ask friends to get him some in a can as he doesn't have enough to risk driving to another gas station in case their out or there's a queue! He's had to call work and say he won't be in tomorrow and his daughter can't get to school! (They live in the middle of no where with limited to no public transport)