Unreasonable request from work?

MofoKilla said:
man up and do it.
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I don't understand responses like this...

His employer is demanding that he reduce his quality of life, for no real financial reward. To accept would not be "manning up", it would be meekly accepting the demands of the employer. If anything, it's the opposite of "manning up" - it's a loss of self respect.

The "manly" thing to do would be to refuse, and seek employment elsewhere. But of course, life does not always allow for such luxuries as maintaining dignity in this way... We all need to eat.
 
I work away from time to time,the deal with us is you get £15 a night if you have breakfast,paid in the next weeks wages,£20 a night if no breakfast(sometimes can't have due to hours worked) and thats sharing with someone,or if you decide you want your own room you get no lodge allowance just breakfast:(,we used to get £35 but the credit crunch excuse was played:mad:,seems a long time for you to work away,so i would expect some kind of bonus say work 8 hours paid 10,or whatever hours you do should get extra,you need to have a word with your boss and see how flexible they are for some extra money,people seem to forget when your working away you can spend a bit more than you get for lodging,aswell as still running your own home.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I guess you don't go away much...

Why should he compromise his life just because his company can't correctly bid for a contract or his boss is too tight.

Even with his own room the package he's been offered is poor imho.
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What, £20 a night you could get two 16 inch pizzas or a cooked pub meal with money spare. Agree with having to share with a fat guy though eww.
 
mattyprice4004 said:
I'd take it, sounds awesome.

Get a cheap laptop, get some good quality headphones and try to befriend the fat guy.
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This. Think of it from the more positive angle, aka the company chose you and this other guy to be down in ascot from may to october in what sounds like a major venture for the company. Use the time to bond with the guy and just be straight with him from the start.

Definitely buy a cheap laptop to do work on and your evenings will be sorted for a while, plus being away from everything means you can focus more on the masters to achieve a good grade due to not having distractions of family etc.

It'll look great on the CV so it would be daft to pass it by.
 
OP You need to man up. Oh my god what am I going to do? Why don't you think about what you need to do and just get on with it.
 
Nate Silvers said:
What, £20 a night you could get two 16 inch pizzas or a cooked pub meal with money spare. Agree with having to share with a fat guy though eww.
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SO he's going to have to eat essentially junk food for the whole time he is there? Great idea.

And then you have the fact he will eat through the menu in about a week, then be stuck eating the same stuff.

I get £30 a day, but that means I can have a cheap lunch with snacks from the supermarket/sandwich shop and use the rest for dinner which isn't too bad.

Living out of a hotel (a not particularly great one) for that period of time doesn't sound great. Sharing is completely unacceptable, at a bare minimum you should be in separate rooms. Do not accept sharing and ignore the silly threat RE the MD not being happy!
 
I think the £20 a day is pretty fair. I've done a lot of travel away from work, and whilst I usually claim actuals opposed to an allowance, I would be amazed if my average was over £20 a day.

Regarding the room... hmmm. I think its probably unfair to share, especially if its a little box room, but consider room availability. London, during the Olympic period? I'm amazed they have got you anything.

Personally, I'd do some calculations on room cost, and see if you can convince the office to do you a short term let of some sort in a 2 bed flat. It will almost certainly work out cheaper (you do not need to be in ascot, go for nearby). This way your £20 a day will go much further.
 
albert said:
OP You need to man up. Oh my god what am I going to do? Why don't you think about what you need to do and just get on with it.
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See the post up from yours re: manning up.

Being shafted by your employer is the opposite of manning up.
 
It wouldn't even be about sharing for me just the fact there asking you to work away from home with no financial incentive. I'd decline it and stick to your guns and hope they treat you well where you are. End of the day we work to live, not live to work.
 
Nate Silvers said:
What, £20 a night you could get two 16 inch pizzas or a cooked pub meal with money spare. Agree with having to share with a fat guy though eww.
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See how long you last living like that... He's away from home, family & friends all of his home comforts have been removed from him, in way of compensation they want to give him £20 a night and stick him in the cheapest B&B / Hotel with a fat man, in addition i doubt the place will have internet or a TV worth watching.

Living away from home in hotels sucks, even staying in good hotels with a suit for a reasonable period sucks, it's a terrible way to exist.

This is why the company i work for compensates us appropriately.
 
I do agree sharing a room is the tough part and beyond what i would tolerate.

I could see it as a challenge: 'how long can the fat guy survive when i put crisps in his bed and tug over him whilst asleep.

We could even have a sweepstake and the number of nights he lasts.
 
Tell them that you have a penchant for prostitutes and would have trouble maintaining an erection with a big fat man in the room.
 
I would absolutely not do this.

At our place, anything approaching 1 month away or more and we get a rented apartment and not a hotel.

Under no circumstances are we expected to ever share hotels with others.

For expenses we get "reasonable" meal costs that shouldn't include more than 20% of the bill for alcohol (so the more you eat the more you can drink :) ) plus we get 10 per night for sundaries.

No way I'd sign up to your terms for 4+ months!!
 
Get the company to buy you a laptop, and ask, since it's London they should understand that £20 won't buy you anything lol
 
The company is trying it on to get you to do this as cheap as possible.
Make a note of the minimum terms it would take to do this and approach whoever asked you.

I'd be looking own hotel room and £30 a night as a minimum.
 
if the OP's colleague was female, wore short skirts,had a set of 40DD's and enjoyed sleeping in just a thong, I don't think we would be having this conversation ?
 
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