Re: My Employer says "Leave your ev at home or you go home!"
Well, I've had places refuse to even hire me just because I ride a bicycle and don't drive (or own) a car, even though it would be a desk job with no travelling, ever.
Mind you, part of their hiring packages is often a discounted monthly bus pass, and they have bicycle lockups as part of their building, with bikes that presumably belong to employees locked up there, so it makes no sense to me.
Only one place explained their reasoning, and that was that they did not want me to have to be riding up to 4 hours per day just to get there and back (since the job was all the way across the valley from my house). I discussed this with them to explain that if I had the job, I could afford a really nice electric motor package for the bike that would both cut that travel time in half *and* make it completely effortless for me. They said it didn't matter--they want all their people to be driving in to work if they live more than a mile or two away.
That really really makes no sense at all.
Well, I've had places refuse to even hire me just because I ride a bicycle and don't drive (or own) a car, even though it would be a desk job with no travelling, ever.
Mind you, part of their hiring packages is often a discounted monthly bus pass, and they have bicycle lockups as part of their building, with bikes that presumably belong to employees locked up there, so it makes no sense to me.
Only one place explained their reasoning, and that was that they did not want me to have to be riding up to 4 hours per day just to get there and back (since the job was all the way across the valley from my house). I discussed this with them to explain that if I had the job, I could afford a really nice electric motor package for the bike that would both cut that travel time in half *and* make it completely effortless for me. They said it didn't matter--they want all their people to be driving in to work if they live more than a mile or two away.
That really really makes no sense at all.
