Being unreasonable, or just standing my ground?

[rab.s]

timetex said:

zippy3x said:

If you're a contractor putting up with st like that, then you're doing it wrong.

Actually no.

This employer had some even more 'odd' onsite rules. If you were seen walking up/down the stairs without holding the handrail, you received a warning. People did get escorted offsite for this.

To say this company took 'safety' to the nth degree would be putting it mildly. However, their office, their rules.

I stuck it out there as a favour to someone for longer than I should have, particularly as the contract wasn't in my usual field (the work was incredibly junior, but at a high day rate) but that's just how it was.

Was it a large British Petroleum company by any chance?

[Carlton Banks]

Can only be a large petroleum company called Bad People

[98elise]

timetex said:

ikarl said:

3hrs to travel 65 miles.

Sounds about right for some trips.

I live near Hitchin and used to commute to Sunbury on Thames, and it would regularly take 3hrs+ for that journey, although a little less to get back in the afternoon.

Employer had a 'no contractors WFH rule' so I had no choice but to be at the office at 9am, with someone checking their watch as I walked through the door. It was awful. Not even a good daily rate made it bearable.

Agreed. I do Maidstone to Watford, and it's 2 hours minimum each way. Mornings its regularly 3 hours.

It can take 40 minutes just to get from the M25 to the centre of Watford.

Every now and again the planets align, and it's just over an hour home. Very rare though