To not want to walk for an hour?

[Summering23]

This is a question regarding travel to work during public transport strikes. One of my in office days fell on a tube strike day but my boss insisted that I still go in via bus.
As expected I couldn’t get on a bus for ages due to overcrowding and then the actual bus itself took three times longer than it should have. This meant I was over an hour late in.

I wasn’t in trouble but a comment was made that I should’ve just walked. The walk would have been around an hour according to Google and I don’t know the route at all. Plus to be perfectly honest I’m not up for an hour long walk after getting kids up and fed, walking to the station and a train commute.

AIBU?

I wouldn't mind it. Headphones on, grab a coffee on the way. Not a huge deal. But if you don't want to, you don't want to. Not unreasonable- you'll just maybe have to leave home even earlier to avoid being late.
Could you even walk half an hour and then hop on a bus?

If the weather was OK I'd probably prefer to walk then sit on a crowded bus.

An hour’s walk on a one off or, at least irregular tube strike day is not something we should complain about. Walking is necessary for healthy heart. Most dog owners including me do that every day. the only issue I see is a boss or colleague asking you to do this without assessing the risks to you and considering if you have any invisible disability or physical/mental health issues that prevents it. For example, I carry a laptop but could pare my belongings right down; or whether arriving wet in a downpour or snow requires additional facilities at work to get ready. My company has showers, hairdryers and straighteners! and then I would really enjoy a beautiful stroll, and yes, it’s a good call and you are being you are being unreasonable.

Really? Are you sure? Who are all these people. That seems very unrealistic of them, don't you think? It doesn't add up.

My quickest commute to work was an eight-minute walk to the central London tower block office that I can still see from the end of my street. I didn't choose the job for that. It was a good job and it was luck that it was almost on my doorstep. My colleagues were envious, especially the one from Peterborough who seemed to spend most of his life on the train.

I now live three miles from work. My commute by tube is 35 minutes door to door. I have the second shortest commute time in the office. We're nerds who time things.

The quickest person is someone who lives further away than me but cycles. I couldn't do that because I wouldn't be safe, but I can walk and often do when I feel like it or sometimes because I've had to - terrorism and tube strikes. It takes me an hour and 15 minutes because I am a stroller. If I really put a move on I can do it in just over an hour but I don't see the point. For most of my colleagues the commute is up to 90 minutes by train one way.

The only quicker way apart from rolling out of bed to open the shop below which is what an ex-boyfriend did, would be walking from the bedroom to the kitchen to work from home. It's quicker because you don't have to get washed and dressed.

An hour's walk might not be desirable but in for most people it's do-able. The OP's boss didn't tell her off for being late or even be passive aggressive - whatever that means. But he still wants her in next time. So that's what she's going to have to do or look for another job.

There was a massive demonstration in Hyde park on Wednesday. So yes by the time I had to start work there were hundreds if not thousands of protesters heading there from the station walking the same route I would be. I never said they’d attack me but it would rather slow one down y’know.

I walk a lot.
It’s what I choose to do, often fe hours on end. But I do it fully prepared with the right shoes on and the right mindset. I’ll often walk even if there’s an alternative
There is no way I would be happy walking to the station, commuting for 3/4 hr and then walking an hour to go to work. In annoying work clothes and shoes. To then do it in reverse after a day at work.
That’s a sixth of the day (and night) taken up just travelling.
Not when it’s possible to work from home.

Looks like all the pompous MN posters who are just so diligent and committed and absolutely wouldn’t mind, actually, they’d quite enjoy, an hour walking tacked onto their already long day, have found your thread, OP.

YANBU. I wouldn’t have wanted to walk an hour to work either and would refuse if I have the option to work effectively from home.

it’s not just the walking. It’s fine if you’re fully prepared to do it but if you’re not and in unsuitable shoes, and carting around equipment which most of us who work in a hybrid model have to do, no.

Looks like all the pompous MN posters who are just so diligent and committed and absolutely wouldn’t mind, actually, they’d quite enjoy, an hour walking tacked onto their already long day, have found your thread, OP.

@clairelouwho I just saw it in Trending and it looked quite interesting. Does Mumsnet work differently for you?