This is not sustainable, is it?

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I have a client facing job. I don't have that many meetings but when I do, I have to commute 6+ hours, and sometimes the only way to do it is driving. We can afford the commuting coats, however I don't think my company will be happy for me to waste two days to get to see a client, when most of my colleagues would only use 3-4 hrs tops.

Why are your colleagues clients closer than yours are? What am I missing?
Do you mean a 6 hours round trip or a 12 hour round trip?
Surely if your company want you to do F2F meetings they are aware of the travel time/costs. Are you saying they aren’t paying you a travel allowance?

I don't have that many meetings but when I do, I have to commute 6+ hours, and sometimes the only way to do it is driving.

What has your line manager / boss said? Are they happy with this?

We can afford the commuting coats,

why do you personally pay? Does your company have the option where you can be reimbursed?

however I don't think my company will be happy for me to waste two days to get to see a client

what has your line manager / boss said?

when most of my colleagues would only use 3-4 hrs tops.

Why have you been allocated clients that are further away than other colleagues? And if you’re spotting a trend here… what has your line manager / boss said?

Have you recently moved? Is this a new situation?

Why are your client meetings so much further away than your colleagues?

Doesn’t your company pay travel expenses if the travel is necessary for your job?

My company does pay. But it's been a suprise to everyone that there are no direct flights and getting to London is at least 6 hours.

There's two of us, but I'm the strategic one and my colleague is the "little boxes" one.

Is this down to where you live? Rather than where your job is based?
I’m reading it that colleagues live locally to the job, while you live a 6 hr commute away.

They should have looked into that.

So did you move or are you new? Or are they new clients?

Who's it not sustainable for? You or the company?

6 hours one way?

What exactly are you asking? No one here knows what your employer thinks

This is as clear as mud!

It's about 50/50 (so half of my colleagues live locally). But the remote ones are either London or Midlands based.

Yes it's six hours one way. This way I spent 10 hours door to door to get to one of our clients.

So where are you? Newcastle?

Good god woman, you are not good at explaining things.

Where do you live? Are we talking Newcastle or Paris?

That makes no sense at all, does your job involve communicating in any way 😂

I'm in Cornwall and yes I went to Newcastle! Newcastle to london was only 3 hours, I was impressed

It was *this week... Sorry lots of typos

Not sure what the point of your post is?

So did they know you live in Cornwall when you got the job?

Yeah, South West to North East England is a long one by train, shame that they got rid of the Plymouth-Scotland sleeper, that would have meant that at least you could sleep through the journey.

Yes, they're aware I live in Cornwall, but they weren't aware it takes forever to get anywhere. There's been redundancies too, which makes me worry.

Confused. Am I alone?

More importantly, were you aware when you accepted the job that you would have to go to Newcastle regularly even though you live in Cornwall?