Fuel price discussion thread (was ‘chaos’)

MikeTimbers said:
WFH is not equal to an offshore possibility unless the role requires zero knowledge of the UK's culture/practice. A robotic repetitive role can be offshored but a role that requires decision-making also requires knowledge not just a manual.

Back to the topic, I just went to buy bread and it's around a 3-mile round trip with only half an hour to do it so into the car it is. End of my road there is a Shell with gridlock around it, do a U and take a big loop to get where I want to go, shoot!, a BP has giant queues so can't come back this way, get bread, head in giant loop on the other side. ended up doing more like six miles because the stations that do have fuel are no-go zones.

This is in SE9, London.
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lol at you preempting abuse for your wasteful journey. No bread unless you drive 3 miles in SE9?
 
Conscript said:
It's a balance. Is it a bit easier to communicate face to face? Yes.

But if, in order to to do, I have to add 2-3 hours to my work day for commuting and spend hundreds of pounds a month on train travel - well, to be honest, I'm fine with daily teams calls rather than direct interaction. I've been working remotely fully since March 2020, I'm in constant contact with my colleagues with Teams, and I don't feel that our relationships have degraded in any way at all. And we're all happier as a result. Even now, we are going to be returning to the office only 2 Fridays per month, for collaborative meetings, and will plan any social events around that. That seems an ideal compromise to me. The idea that to do my job, I need to pay through the nose every single day to spend over an hour lugging my laptop up to London on a packed train, just so I can use said laptop sitting somewhere else rather than my own house, boggles my mind.
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Oh it's definitely a balance.

My point was just that it's impossible to build a proper relationship remotely. It's just an anthropological fact - we need to meet people face to face in order to build proper bonds. A bit at home and relatively regular social interactions seems like a great balance.
 
Ten years ago used to drive a couple of miles to the bakers on Sunday am, and, maybe, the price of the bread was then more than the petrol,
pretty sure that wouldn't be true now.A Panasonic bread machine arrived, too, in the interim.
 
MikeTimbers said:
WFH is not equal to an offshore possibility unless the role requires zero knowledge of the UK's culture/practice. A robotic repetitive role can be offshored but a role that requires decision-making also requires knowledge not just a manual.

Back to the topic, I just went to buy bread and it's around a 3-mile round trip with only half an hour to do it so into the car it is. End of my road there is a Shell with gridlock around it, do a U and take a big loop to get where I want to go, shoot!, a BP has giant queues so can't come back this way, get bread, head in giant loop on the other side. ended up doing more like six miles because the stations that do have fuel are no-go zones.

This is in SE9, London.
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I live just down the road from you (BR1) and the fuel situation is similar. Checked about 15 stations last night and only one had fuel - queued for an hour and it ran out 2 cars before us. I now have an almost empty tank and a 200 mile journey to do at the weekend so getting a bit worried. Going to have to try very early morning I think, the guy at Shell told me the they're due a delivery in the early hours tomorrow. But then he also told me they have no available drivers in the south east right now so who knows.
 
Our media is to blame for this. The entire problem has been caused by their reporting of it and the stupid/fickle/unquestioning people of our nation not having any common sense. First against the wall come the day.....with those TOWIE lot.
 
I actually do need fuel this Friday, driving to Wales and back and only have fumes in both cars. Not on purpose just the last time I used them was nearly a month ago, getting a bit worried now. You'd think everyone would be full up by now but the hysteria seems neverending.
 
Chris1712 said:
I actually do need fuel this Friday, driving to Wales and back and only have fumes in both cars. Not on purpose just the last time I used them was nearly a month ago, getting a bit worried now. You'd think everyone would be full up by now but the hysteria seems neverending.
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I guess it all depends where you live. Someone at work went to local Sainsbury's and there was no queue at lunchtime. This is Herefordshire. Population about 60k so not big but not small, I think there are 8 stations within about 2 miles of each other and no motorway in the county, probably mean less traffic going through cross country and only mostly locals filling up.
 
MikeTheNative said:
I usually wait until I've got 30 ish miles left before filling but I'm probably going to have to get some earlier now just in case I have to drive round half the country to find some fuel lol
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This is instigating the issue, isn’t it. I’m the same, but put more in than I normally would on Sunday. Times that but however many thousand in a certain radius combined with those who are stock piling and you’ve got more people looking for fuel in the same space of time.

Can’t win, this is all an aftershock from the initial wave of better go fill up from earlier last week.
 
Back to normal in Carmarthen today, no waiting at all. I see in Cities it has decended into knife fighting and assault on poor old lady
 
watercooledman said:
seems to be easing off my way now, well at the moment it is.
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Mum went into town 4 times today said none of the fuel stations were totally out of fuel but all controlling how much people could buy by shutting most pumps which was causing some queuing but nothing like yesterday - she didn't see anywhere which was queued so it was blocking the road.
 
Success, managed to get £35 (the limit) from a shell near me! Not full but enough for our essential journeys over the next week, barely. I must have more or less had the last of it because they shut the pump behind me :eek:.

Some scum were taking the ****, filling their car, paying and then going back to fill up jerry cans and paying again :rolleyes:.
 
RobHu said:
Success, managed to get £35 (the limit) from a shell near me! Not full but enough for our essential journeys over the next week, barely. I must have more or less had the last of it because they shut the pump behind me :eek:.

Some scum were taking the ****, filling their car, paying and then going back to fill up jerry cans and paying again :rolleyes:.
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Does it actually cut you off at £35? That's annoying.
 
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