|
walk 5 min 3 min on blue walk 6 min 7 min on red walk 11 min 5 + 3 + 6 + 7 + 11 = 32 + some ancilliary time = 39
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 16:26
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 23:23 |
|
|
my last commutes were 30, 15, 0 so i got spoiled ok
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 16:27
|
|
|
i just drive 30 minutes. it's nice
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 16:56
|
|
|
you can catch up with all the cool podcasts and pretend those people talking are your friends!
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 16:58
|
|
|
I love listening to podcasts on the way to work. I feel so productive sitting on the train listening to the news
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:02
|
|
|
i like listening to the classical music station on the way to work. it's low on advertising and i feel like i'm discovering new (old) music all of the time.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:04
|
|
|
akadajet posted:i like listening to the classical music station on the way to work. it's low on advertising and i feel like i'm discovering new (old) music all of the time. "new to me!"
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:12
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:5 + 3 + 6 + 7 + 11 = 32 + some ancilliary time = 39 oh no my entire transportation budget for a month is 84.50 on the most extensive mass transit in the US that isn't in NYC, I get healthful walking for free, and they are going to pay me 90k? who do I have to stab to get that situation that you are complaining about?
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:22
|
|
|
ultravoices posted:oh no my entire transportation budget for a month is 84.50 on the most extensive mass transit in the US that isn't in NYC, I get healthful walking for free, and they are going to pay me 90k? who do I have to stab to get that situation that you are complaining about? i getcha 
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:25
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:i getcha plus you should double check if you get some kind of transportation subsidy. my company has a pre-tax savings account for transit and my last place paid the first $50 of your pass
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 17:46
|
|
|
my commute is about to go from 8 minutes to 20 minutes and it's rocking my world. ughhhhh
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 18:21
|
|
|
yeah they comp linkpasses
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 18:52
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:yeah they comp linkpasses jfc don't complain about your t commute if it's all train and completely free
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:00
|
|
|
you'd rather drive longer than take faster, literally free transit? are there any actual benefits to driving?
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:18
|
|
|
lol pollyanna’d again!
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:26
|
|
|
PokeJoe posted:you'd rather drive longer than take faster, literally free transit? are there any actual benefits to driving? not having to brush shoulders with the hoi polloi
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:46
|
|
|
PokeJoe posted:you'd rather drive longer than take faster, literally free transit? are there any actual benefits to driving? ya, my car is clean and not full of filthy, sick strangers
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:47
|
|
|
my stop was one of the ones that used to start to fill the train, and one of my favorite morning indulgences was picking whoever had stuck a bag next to them to "claim" the empty seat on the rapidly filling car and sit there.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 20:58
|
|
|
now that i think about it driving really would be worse than the t welp problem solved also ive decided to accept company Bs offer, and that means im gonna have to break the bad news to company A that i wont be joining after all 
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 21:15
|
|
|
I prefer driving to and from work. It's very grounding for me to yell at terrible Vancouver drivers after a day of touching computers.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:29
|
|
|
im just lazy and dont wanna walk
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:38
|
|
|
on the other hand, i dont have to actually do anything, and if any accidents happen it wont be my own fault
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:38
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:im just lazy and dont wanna walk I understand this in the winter but in a month you’ll wish you’d always done it
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:42
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:im just lazy and dont wanna walk it takes a weird kind of lazy that a few minutes of walking is so bad don't you walk... to the car?
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:44
|
|
|
even in the winter it's still an easy commute. the worst will be the park street <--> kendall run on the red line but it's short and usually those stops going in the direction pollyanna is going aren't affected by delays as much as others basically what i'm saying is htfu and 
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:47
|
|
|
i mean as a nor'easter just blew through i fully understand "ugh i don't want to go outside for long periods of time" i feel the same way after a snowstorm. for like a day
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:49
|
|
|
if i wanted to deal with common people and go outside i would have become a cop
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:50
|
|
|
hobbesmaster posted:i mean as a nor'easter just blew through i fully understand "ugh i don't want to go outside for long periods of time" wfh day then shovel out nbd
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:54
|
|
|
pollyanna is the exact sort of person boomers point at when they're derisive of millennials
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 22:55
|
|
|
akadajet posted:if i wanted to deal with common people and go outside i would have become a cop get over yourself, you're a common person
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:03
|
|
|
PokeJoe posted:get over yourself, you're a common person doesn't mean i want to hang out with other's like me
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:03
|
|
|
akadajet posted:ya, my car is clean and not full of filthy, sick strangers your office is full of them though
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:14
|
|
|
Boiled Water posted:your office is full of them though yeah. flu season was brutal
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:16
|
|
|
akadajet posted:doesn't mean i want to hang out with other's like me you're trapped with them at work anyway, unless your job doesn't involve other people e: beaten
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:16
|
|
|
Pollyanna posted:im just lazy and dont wanna walk wish you had this attitude to posting!
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:43
|
|
|
Blinkz0rz posted:pollyanna is the exact sort of person boomers point at when they're derisive of millennials
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:50
|
|
|
ill just blame the flu even if i dont have it year round!! fuk u!!!!!!
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:50
|
|
|
anyway the real pain in the rear end would be walking from state street to downtown crossing cuz google says to walk instead of taking orange
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:52
|
|
|
even if thats probably a good idae
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 23:23 |
|
|
if you hate taking trains so much then move to the sticks so that someone else who actually uses them occasionally can live there
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2018 23:54
|
|