Wild in the country
Jul. 12th, 2005 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhionnachThis is now the second week of having to travel out to the new call centre site in Erskine. It's a nice enough place, situated in the countryside. The building and the grounds are very pleasant, the canteen food surprisingly nice, but it's a 13 mile trip every day from Glasgow. The company have laid on a coach for the first three months but after that it's sink or swim. And so far, my attempts to find out about public transport have not met with good news.
It would be easy enough to travel to if I had a car but I sold my car when I bought my flat. It was either have a car or have a flat but not both. As I was then working in Clydebank that wasn't too bad as it has decent bus and train links. When I got my current job it was based in the city centre so travel wasn't a problem, but it is now that they have moved us out to the countryside. The site is on the opposite bank of the Clyde to Clydebank but the transport links are practically non existent, timed inconveniently, and stopping nowhere near the site! I haven't yet worked it out fully but the nearest, most frequent bus routes would leave me with at least a 20 minute walk. Or else I could get a bus from Paisley but that would mean getting to Paisley for 8.00am.
They did offer a car loan of £1000. What sort of car could you get for that, and expect it to be reliable enough? And you'd be paying it back at a £100 a month as well as paying your petrol, insurance , road tax etc. I don't think so!
If I could cycle it might be a possibility but I can't so it's not. I never learned how to cycle as a kid and a rather swift and painful encounter with a car while trying to cycle round Great Cumbrae proved to all who said otherwise that not everyone knows how to ride a bike!
So unless a car drops out of the sky before me or something happens it's going to be very difficult to keep this job. I have been there over 5 and half years but, nevertheless, they don't seem too fussed over losing experienced people and they have lost a lot due to the move. It's been good but I think that it's looking like time to move on.
It would be easy enough to travel to if I had a car but I sold my car when I bought my flat. It was either have a car or have a flat but not both. As I was then working in Clydebank that wasn't too bad as it has decent bus and train links. When I got my current job it was based in the city centre so travel wasn't a problem, but it is now that they have moved us out to the countryside. The site is on the opposite bank of the Clyde to Clydebank but the transport links are practically non existent, timed inconveniently, and stopping nowhere near the site! I haven't yet worked it out fully but the nearest, most frequent bus routes would leave me with at least a 20 minute walk. Or else I could get a bus from Paisley but that would mean getting to Paisley for 8.00am.
They did offer a car loan of £1000. What sort of car could you get for that, and expect it to be reliable enough? And you'd be paying it back at a £100 a month as well as paying your petrol, insurance , road tax etc. I don't think so!
If I could cycle it might be a possibility but I can't so it's not. I never learned how to cycle as a kid and a rather swift and painful encounter with a car while trying to cycle round Great Cumbrae proved to all who said otherwise that not everyone knows how to ride a bike!
So unless a car drops out of the sky before me or something happens it's going to be very difficult to keep this job. I have been there over 5 and half years but, nevertheless, they don't seem too fussed over losing experienced people and they have lost a lot due to the move. It's been good but I think that it's looking like time to move on.