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How does your daily commute to work look like? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm assuming that most of you are from the US so probably using cars, but lemme know if you use trains, subways, buses, etc.

Me? Back when I was doing an internship I walked to a nearby station for 10 minutes then transited to another train line, which could be an instant or 20 minutes wait. After that I walked for 10 minutes to my work place. So it was probably about 40 minutes of commute. Of course, I live in tropical country so I'm drenched in sweat as I arrive in the office.

Fortunately every year my city's public transportation seems to get better and as a result I barely needed to use cars.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

My commute should be:

10 min walk to bus stop
20 min bus ride
10 min walk

however it usually is:

10 min walk to bus stop
20 min waiting for bus because the one that was supposed to come through didn't
30 min bus ride
10 min walk

Which is why I work a lot less hours when I go to the office, I start my clock the moment I would sit to work around 9:00, then start packing, go through the whole process, get to the office at around 10:30 or sometimes later, plug in my laptop, grab a coffee, chat with colleagues, read some emails and by this time it's already lunch time. Come back from lunch, do some work, then meetings, then I need to start packing for the journey back if I'm to make it back home by 17:00.

In short I give 9-5 to the company, if they want me to waste 3 of those hours in commute, plugging/unplugging peripherals and essentially not being productive the entire day it's their problem. I can do my job from home, as I did for a long time before WFH policy changed, if they think going to the office is worth the commute time then the commute time comes from their slice of the day. To me it's not worth it, so I wouldn't spend my personal time commuting to the office.