Twice a week we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy's own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
The company I work for is making the employees of three departments go on an away day (actually, two consecutive days) at a hotel about 10 miles from the office in the middle of the Derbyshire countryside.
The company has no plans to put on buses for us. People are going to have to get expensive taxis to the hotel or, if they drive, find their own way there. I anticipate it is going to take me an extra half-hour to drive there each way, so two extra hours over the two days, plus extra petrol costs.
Shouldn't the company be obliged to help with transport? There is nothing in anyone's contract about working in different locations. The away days are mandatory and refusing won't go down well with senior management.
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