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[Closed] Employer actively discouraging cycling to work!

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Good luck with your future job hunting prospects

PS it has nothing to do with cycling, and everything to do with your attitude. HTH


Oh the irony...you seem a proper diplomatic charmer on this thread

Bit of give and take required form everyone ...at his work and this thread.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:08 pm
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I work in a very cycling friendly office (shower, good bike rack, boss is a cyclist) and know for certain that if I left 5 shirts on the coat stand at work a quiet word would be had suggesting this is not on. My solution is to bring a suit bad which contains all the shirts along with a suit and undies and hide it in an unused cupboard at the top of the building. Could you find a rarely used cupboard to stash your gear maybe? Or, if you must use the coat stand, keep it all in 1 suit bag so it doesn't take up as much space?


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:08 pm
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I have a similar length of commute to you, and take a shirt in each day. Our office is a cyclist's paradise. Half the office cycles, we have showers, bike mags in the meeting room, company cycling kit, a secure bike store (x2) etc. you get the idea.

It doesn't mean we want the place to look like a Chinese laundry.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:09 pm
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The 4 shirts are in a shirt bag, hanging from a single hook. Currently I cannot even see them beneath the pile of coats, and I'm sitting 5 metres away.

This has got way out of hand. Discussions of my attitude and job prospects are uncalled for.

Moderator: please delete the thread.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:10 pm
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Moderator: please delete the thread.

Oh dear! Cup of tea and a hobknob anyone, this could be a long thread! 😀


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:11 pm
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OP - are you still contracting?


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:12 pm
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WTF do you need another coat stand for then?


 
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Posted : 12/11/2014 12:13 pm
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lol proper flounce.


 
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Posted : 12/11/2014 12:15 pm
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Good job I'm not a diplomat then. 😆

As many folk have pointed out, OP attitude isn't helping himself, and as he's been at the work place for just a month, it doesn't look great...

OP, re the "fat tosspot", hope he doesn't read singletrack, eh? 😉


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:17 pm
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[i] It's 10 miles each way, and I find it much easier without a bag. [/i]

It's not really that hard to carry a bag. I do 20 miles each way and always carry a waterproof rucksack in winter. I don't notice any performance difference on the days I don't carry a bag. It's somewhere else to hang a rear light anyway.

If you have a box under your desk then put folded shirts in that.

You're the one making this into an issue to be honest not your employer. What if everyone in the office wanted their own coat stand?


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:23 pm
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tbh if someone new at work started and within a month they were hanging their shirts all over the office I'd think they were a little bit nutty.

let alone asking for another piece of office furniture especially for their shirts. Thats just barmy.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 12:23 pm
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