Unreasonable request from work?
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We get £25 per Day and our own room.
Work away is a reasonable request, not sure about the leength of time way tho.
The sharing a room, not a chance in hell is that a reasonable request tbqfh
Work away is a reasonable request, not sure about the leength of time way tho.
The sharing a room, not a chance in hell is that a reasonable request tbqfh
You need to check your contract for the terms of working away from your "normal place of work". It may mention specific periods of time and allowances for this.
Sharing a hotel room with someone else apart from your partner, regardless of who they are is completely unacceptable IMO and doesn't compensate for being away from home. You should have privacy and your own room at the very least. It sounds like they are trying to get away with doing it on the cheap. Allowance of £20-50 per night for being away is the norm I'd say.
If a hotel is too expensive then they should look at renting a place short-term within a commutable distance where you will both at least have your own rooms. Or they should negotiate with the customer to recover the extra costs of providing staff and accommodating them from the contract.
Sharing a hotel room with someone else apart from your partner, regardless of who they are is completely unacceptable IMO and doesn't compensate for being away from home. You should have privacy and your own room at the very least. It sounds like they are trying to get away with doing it on the cheap. Allowance of £20-50 per night for being away is the norm I'd say.
If a hotel is too expensive then they should look at renting a place short-term within a commutable distance where you will both at least have your own rooms. Or they should negotiate with the customer to recover the extra costs of providing staff and accommodating them from the contract.
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We're given a choice if you are working away from home for more than 3 consecutive nights, you can either claim an un-receipted fixed rate per night (£20 iirc) or you can claim up to £25 with receipts, which must not include alcohol on them (i.e. be non-itemised in reality 
). Most of us go for the former option as the loss of a couple of quid here and there is more than offset by the decrease in paperwork.
As for staying away as the OP has been requested to do. What does your contract say regarding your mobility? At the company where I work we have mobile and non-mobile contracts ... and if you are on the latter then you are not expected to work on another site for more than a couple of days at a time and are expected to be working at your base location for at least 3 weeks in 4. You can, of course, opt to travel but you can refuse if you don't want to do so.
Sharing rooms ... no. Even if your colleague is your best mate then still no; you don't want to be with them all day every week day. If you don't like them then definitely no. Frankly I would expect to be sharing a room with any of my colleagues at all ever ... we're professionals not students.
). Most of us go for the former option as the loss of a couple of quid here and there is more than offset by the decrease in paperwork.As for staying away as the OP has been requested to do. What does your contract say regarding your mobility? At the company where I work we have mobile and non-mobile contracts ... and if you are on the latter then you are not expected to work on another site for more than a couple of days at a time and are expected to be working at your base location for at least 3 weeks in 4. You can, of course, opt to travel but you can refuse if you don't want to do so.
Sharing rooms ... no. Even if your colleague is your best mate then still no; you don't want to be with them all day every week day. If you don't like them then definitely no. Frankly I would expect to be sharing a room with any of my colleagues at all ever ... we're professionals not students.
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Meh, everything but the hotel room sounds fine, assuming they are paying for your travel back every weekend? Hotel sharing though, with anyone, no, with some hot intern.... no, you'll end up fired, with some huge obese nasty smelling person you actually dislike, absolutely without question NO.
Firstly, is this a job you desperately need or will care about long term. IE if you're finishing your masters this summer and will be looking for a new job, does it matter if they stick you with bad jobs for another couple months, if you expect to work there for another 2 years thats different.
How much is a hotel room, how much do you get paid. If you took the £20 extra a night and paid another £20 for some travellodge room, would you be losing money or only losing a little to keep a job you still want.
Don't suppose you know anyone in London you could stay with for a few months instead?
As for Laptop, beg/borrow/steal one.... hmm, could look into local uni's to see if you can rent a student room over summer/use computer labs for work, etc, etc?
Firstly, is this a job you desperately need or will care about long term. IE if you're finishing your masters this summer and will be looking for a new job, does it matter if they stick you with bad jobs for another couple months, if you expect to work there for another 2 years thats different.
How much is a hotel room, how much do you get paid. If you took the £20 extra a night and paid another £20 for some travellodge room, would you be losing money or only losing a little to keep a job you still want.
Don't suppose you know anyone in London you could stay with for a few months instead?
As for Laptop, beg/borrow/steal one.... hmm, could look into local uni's to see if you can rent a student room over summer/use computer labs for work, etc, etc?
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I'd tell them where to go, your education comes first.
Sharing a Hotel room would be annoying, but if you are trying to study so you can at least have some time off over the weekend; it sounds like a lousy environment to do it.
Sharing a Hotel room would be annoying, but if you are trying to study so you can at least have some time off over the weekend; it sounds like a lousy environment to do it.
No way in heck would I share a hotel room with a colleague and especially fat smelly one that's bang out of order. The rest however would be perfectly reasonable to me. Ask for a loan laptop and a separate room or refuse and take the crappy jobs and then leave when you can.
every night pretend to go to sleep for 10mins the get up wonder round the room talking to random objects very loudly... when you co worker eventually raises his voice to get your attention pretend to be startled and say you have an issue with sleep walking / talking...
if he does not ask to move rooms after the first night, up the game and start calling him gemma (while pretending to sleep walk) then try and have sex with him... (might back fire if he is gay)
if he does not ask to move rooms after the first night, up the game and start calling him gemma (while pretending to sleep walk) then try and have sex with him... (might back fire if he is gay)
Yeah sharing a room for that long seems bang out of order to me - if it was a night or 2 then its one thing.
Everything else seems pretty reasonable tho - depending a bit on your job working in air conditioning/HVAC would normally entail some working off site at times I'd have thought and £20 a night is acceptable.
Everything else seems pretty reasonable tho - depending a bit on your job working in air conditioning/HVAC would normally entail some working off site at times I'd have thought and £20 a night is acceptable.
Totally agree with this. Whenever we have to stay in a hotel for work, we are all given our own room. It is wrong to make you share. I think £20 a night is a bit tight for a meal to be fair. I wouldn't be willing to do this.
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I spend £20 a WEEK on food nevermind a night, just go.
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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.
But not cheaper than half the cost of the one room the company are putting two people in though.Good point actually - if you're not a filthy unhygienic student, then quite a lot of people would probably rent you a room for cheaper than a hotel!
If the company are trying to pull this, they are unlikely to pay for the original and additional accommodation expenses.