Many people have offered their thoughts on today’s London Underground (aka, The Tube) strike. Here’s my own look at this particular aspect of the world
Today it took about 4-1/2 hours to get from Oxford to Westminster which, by any productivity measure of 21st Century public transport, is a truly stunning performance.
Tomorrow, to mitigate against another journey of epic fail proportions, I shall be deploying that little-used, but oft-considered tool in my armoury: working at home. Just you watch my personal productivity bounce.
But for today, because of my late arrival in, and early departure from Westminster (even though the start and finish points in my journey times were the same as usual) I feel guilty at billing for a full day’s work.
So I’m going to book today as a half day and take the 50% pay-cut squarely on the chin.
I briefly wondered whether I could claim the missing 50% as a donation to the RMT union.
Dismissed the thought.
How long do you think the walk-out will last then? “Walk-out” is an apt term for a transportation strike.
I’m finally listening to your podcast and enjoying it so much I’ve put a nice ad in the left sidebar of my blog. I’ve a number of regular and some irregular readers. Perhaps they will have a listen as well. Well done you and Soph!
I’d love to have a day WfH at some point. I always seem to get so much more done that way.
However lately I seem to need to be on various client sites and my productivity has dropped alarmingly as a consequence.
I would dearly love to have an office or, better still, a place of work to go to. Not really. What would I want to do that for? Working from home is ACE. You can sit in your PJs, scratch your balls and fart all day, (that’s you, not me) without worrying about the health and safety implications for your co-workers.
Beckett or Widdecombe? It’s a dilemma, and one I know you have oft agonised over.
Mya x