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Do Work have to provide me transport?

95 replies

EZA15 · 09/05/2018 17:59

Hi everyone, I have a dissiplinary for imsubordination. The thing is it’s not at the place at work and at the head office 1/2 hr away. I don’t drive. I’ve told them and they’ve told me to catch the bus. Do work have to provide me transport to get to the dissiplinary?

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Bluntness100 · 09/05/2018 18:27

Well, I've a funny feeling you won't have to deal with his crap much longer.

Do Work have to provide me transport?
BakedBeans47 · 09/05/2018 18:27

Jesus wept

Have you no self awareness whatsoever OP?

RebelRogue · 09/05/2018 18:28

Sell the fur and get a cab.

MoreCheerfulMonica · 09/05/2018 18:28

Ah. Just seen your latest post. I think you may need to adjust your perceptions. The other branch may have been chosen because it’s neutral ground. What you see as not taking the manager’s cr@p they obviously see as insubordination. Your combative attitude may not help you at the hearing.

WakeUpSally · 09/05/2018 18:28

If this is for real Confused. I would have thought you could claim expenses as its not your normal place of work. But given its a disciplinary I don't think I would.

ShatnersBassoon · 09/05/2018 18:28

Invite them over to your place instead.

EZA15 · 09/05/2018 18:30

Can I claim for your expenses like wakeupsally said? It dus say in my contract that they can put me at ane branch?

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EmmaC78 · 09/05/2018 18:32

Stop worrying about the transport and spend your time preparing for the disciplinary meeting.

Smeddum · 09/05/2018 18:32

It dus say in my contract that they can put me at ane branch?

Then you probably can’t.

TheIsland · 09/05/2018 18:32

Is this a reverse?

ShatnersBassoon · 09/05/2018 18:33

Yes, ask them for an expenses claim form before the disciplinary starts. Keep your receipts for breakfast, travel, dry cleaning and elevenses.

scurryfunge · 09/05/2018 18:34

Come on over to my place
Hey you
We’re having a disciplinary
We’ll be swinging, dancing and sacking
Come on over tonight

SwedishEdith · 09/05/2018 18:34

Of course you can claim travel expenses if it's further away from your usual place of work with increased travel costs.

MoreCheerfulMonica · 09/05/2018 18:34

We can’t tell you what your staff handbook or company policies say.

KnopeforAmerica · 09/05/2018 18:34

Claim for expenses? Even if you could, would you really want to piss them off? Assuming it is just the cost of a bus fare and not an expensive taxi you can't afford, no judge in the land would think that a reasonable excuse for you not to attend if they say no and end up dismissing you in your absence. Swallow your pride, pay the bus fare and be apologetic or if it comes down to a 50-50 decision, they will decide against you. It's just human nature.

BIWI · 09/05/2018 18:36

How come on all your other post (Advanced Search is your friend) that you seem perfectly literate, write properly rather than use text speak, and can also spell 'discipline'? Hmm

TittyGolightly · 09/05/2018 18:37

I was thinking the same BIWI.

AJPTaylor · 09/05/2018 18:37

If your contract states any branch then you are responsible for getting there.
Are you going alone? Are you in a union or is there a colleague that could go with you?

AnotherOriginalUsername · 09/05/2018 18:38

This has got to be a wind up. A try hard wanting to get to the daily fail? Worth it though, thanks for the laughs @scurryfunge

Bombardier25966 · 09/05/2018 18:39

Is there a reason why you are typing like a chav?

Terrible of me to check, but your other posts don't have any hint of the chav speak you are littering your posts with on here.

EZA15 · 09/05/2018 18:39

My daughter used my mumsnet but she won’t help me cuz she says it’s my fault. She good wit her spelling tho

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Whatififall · 09/05/2018 18:39

Admittedly I don’t know the full story but rather than it being bullying by your manager I imagine they’ve picked head office as a neutral place for the disciplinary.
I’d much rather get a bus than have to come out of a disciplinary meeting and have all my colleagues watching.

Amaried · 09/05/2018 18:40

This has got to be a troll.. no one surely is this entitled.
Op on the off chance you are real, I would say that you won't have to worry about your manager "having it in for you" much longer.

RebelRogue · 09/05/2018 18:40

Is that your 4yo daughter?Hmm

ShatnersBassoon · 09/05/2018 18:44

Have I stumbled into a weird therapeutic roleplay activity? Clearly the op was a wind-up, but why would you do this under a regular username? Confused