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Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
(http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and prediction
of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our Mother
Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to issue
diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours possible.
The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
(we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
live and work.
Anyway, we rode a tandem before we came to Japan, and continued after our arrival a few years ago.
Some bureaucrat noticed this immediately, and made disapproving noises, but we ignored him - he
refused to give us an official FRSGC badge for the bike, but we found this apparent reprimand
surprisingly easy to cope with. Three years later, and he (or perhaps some replacement) is back with
a vengeance. He has insisted that we cannot continue to ride the tandem to work. If we continue, he
will ban all cycling for all members of staff. The justification for this escalation (and whether is
it in principle legally possible) is not clear, and we haven't told any other cyclists yet. We don't
want to stop riding the tandem, as it is faster, safer and easier than riding single bikes, and more
fun too. People recognise us on our regular route, and are friendly towards us, plus we've got a
good tandem (um...3 tandems) and no suitable single bikes. Every day we pass the same police boxes,
we have even met some policemen and of course they are not bothered about us "flouting" such a
petty, trivial and obviously accidental law.
In Japan (in a clear contrast with the UK), the commute to work is partly the responsibility of the
employer. For instance, an injury during the commute counts as a industrial accident, and the
employer must pay for subsequent medical bills and sick pay (the latter which for non-work-related
injury and illness does not appear to be a statutory requirement, or even part of our generally
reasonable working conditions). It is not clear to me why this responsibility should give them the
right to dictate methods of travel to work, but I have heard of another company where driving to
work was banned, and someone was fired after having a crash and getting caught.
unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
be gratefully received.
James
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:15:29 +0900, James Annan
<still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
> the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
> (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and
> prediction of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our
> Mother Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to
> issue diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours
> possible.
[...]
> unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
> foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
> more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
> Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
> minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
> be gratefully received.
I think the standard answer would end withe the phrase, "...and bury the body."
What I want to know is how they can possibly consider banning cycling when they themselves has a
research programme aimed at developing a hydrological cycle.
Colin
--
"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened.
Interesting situation.
If the person has the power to send you packing, and you really want to stay, then I'd suck it up
and pony up for some mama charis.
polite about it (I'll talk it over with my wife, I need to consider my finances, ad infinitum)
--
Regards, Ryan Ginstrom
Sorry but I have no hints or tips. Only this observation.
Of all the retarded things I have heard and/or faced since I have been in this wonderful(I really
think so,too)country....this is without a doubt Number One on the Corky chart.........with a bullet!
Brian
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:15:29 +0900, James Annan ...
>
I can't give you any advice but only the observation that you won't get a reason for this decision.
The first "reason" is this is the policy. If you press the point you might get "the decision was
made after due consideration etc", then possibly "we are concerned about your safety". You are very
unlikely to be told it is because of insurance etc...
.
----
someone who wants junk mail info@jpat.jp
<snippety snip>
> Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will be gratefully received.
Hmm, difficult one. Personally, I'd comply when commuting to work - no use bringing your employer
and colleagues into the slinging match.
Then start getting arsey: have people take photos and videos of the pair of you on the tandem; write
Haiku poetry dedicated to your love of cycling during the beautiful seasons, what with the falling
leaves 'n' all; hell, get dedications of tandem cycling love from the natives. Do all this, bundle
up a big package and send it to the beaurocrat on a weekly basis.
Then, once the guy's sufficiently vitriolic, sneak on him to his boss.
Either way, should be fun.
Tom.
James Annan wrote:
> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
> the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
> (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and
> prediction of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our
> Mother Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to
> issue diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours
> possible.
>
> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
> (we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
> bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
> bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
> passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
> live and work.
>
--snip
>
> unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
> foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
> more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
> Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
> minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
> be gratefully received.
>
As much as I love Japan the odd bit off petty bureacracy can put you off an entire nation. My friend
once got told to cycle on the pavement not on the road which was fun and a pal of mine practicing
keepie-ups in the middle of an empty public football pitch got told to clear off by a guy in a
uniform and hat deployed specifically for such incidents it seems. I'd just keep riding the thing.
Have a talk with your local labour office who were very supportive when I worked in Fukuoka. If it's
more then a work issue then I have no idea what you can do other than keep riding until forced off
the bike by the self defence force.
James Annan wrote: [...]
> Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will be gratefully received.
Not sure about sensible, but you've got 3 tandems: how about riding one each for a while to make
the point?
- Bill -
"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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<a sorry tale>
Boo, hiss, bunch of wankers, etc. Erm, sorry, can't come up with any helpful suggestions.
(how about riding the s+s one and taking it apart?)
cheers, clive
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:57:31 -0000, in
<400e85b8$0$249$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk>, "Thomas" <tom [at]
greysheep [dot] co [dot] uk> wrote:
><snippety snip>
>
>> Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will be gratefully received.
>
>Hmm, difficult one. Personally, I'd comply when commuting to work - no use bringing your employer
>and colleagues into the slinging match.
I have no idea of Japanese law. Where does your commute start from? Does it start from the address
held by your employer, or can your commute start from a point 25m away from the factory gates?
Can you ride your tandem from home to that 25m point?
--
I remember when the internet was only in black & white. It only had a few pages but at least they
all worked. Email: Put only the word "richard" before the @ sign.
"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, we rode a tandem before we came to Japan, and continued after our arrival a few years ago.
> Some bureaucrat noticed this immediately, and made disapproving noises, but we ignored him - he
> refused to give us an official FRSGC badge for the bike, but we found this apparent reprimand
> surprisingly easy to cope with. Three years later, and he (or perhaps some replacement) is back
> with a vengeance. He has insisted that we cannot continue to ride the tandem to work. If we
> continue, he will ban all cycling for all members of staff. The justification for this escalation
> (and whether is it in principle legally possible) is not clear, and we haven't told any other
> cyclists yet.
Can't you just park it round the corner and walk the last bit?
Following on from James Annan's message. . . [Bizarre story of Little Togo trying to ban cycling to
work snipped]
Why not organise the other cyclists. Find as many tandems as you can (you already have 3) get the
other cyclists on-board them and swoop after getting the TV involved. Have the other cyclists on
ordinary bikes who won't fit on a tandem. (Or a uni-cycle - That should bust the blood vessels of
the pea-brain bureaucrat.)
Your fellow cyclists are your best allies, and the TV coverage should rub it in. I suspect that
there will be plenty of people who hate Little Togo's guts and won't be sorry to see him taken down
a notch or two.
My knowledge of Japanese culture is slim but it might be an idea to hint to fellow cyclists that you
have already been contacted by a _foreign_ TV station that wants to run the story about the
'stupidity of little yellow people' and it might be an idea to deal with it now and locally
otherwise it will become another stick to hit them with. There is plenty enough in this story to
make it journalistically worth-while.
[Anyway you need protection - It's not right - The little people being bullied like this - I have
this vision of 'The Seven Tandemi' - what an epic film that'll make... First collect your Tandemii -
The old boy found gently mending punctures outside his hut through to the kid with the mongrel bike
built from salvaged parts and held together with bits of bent wire. Second the spiritual part - The
practising the exact arm signals, greasing the chain, truing the wheels, polishing the h****ts and
putting anti-mist on goggles. Third putting on the fighting gear - Lycra, raincapes and cycle clips.
Finally they all die violently in a cinematic maelstrom.]
--
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James Annan <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> writes:
> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
> (we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
> bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
> bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
> passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
> live and work.
Would the solution not be for one of you to get off a hundred yards from the gate, and for one to
arrive a single rider on a single (tandem) bike and the other to arrive on foot? Face saved, no
problem, Herbert-from-security San. Sayonara.
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ Windows 95: You, you, you! You
make a grown man cry...
M. Jagger/K. Richards
In news:400e7c6c$0$586$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp,
James Annan <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> radiated into the
WorldWideWait:
> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
> the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
> (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and
> prediction of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our
> Mother Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to
> issue diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours
> possible.
>
> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
> (we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
> bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
> bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
> passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
> live and work.
>
> Anyway, we rode a tandem before we came to Japan, and continued after our arrival a few years ago.
> Some bureaucrat noticed this immediately, and made disapproving noises, but we ignored him - he
> refused to give us an official FRSGC badge for the bike, but we found this apparent reprimand
> surprisingly easy to cope with. Three years later, and he (or perhaps some replacement) is back
> with a vengeance. He has insisted that we cannot continue to ride the tandem to work. If we
> continue, he will ban all cycling for all members of staff. The justification for this escalation
> (and whether is it in principle legally possible) is not clear, and we haven't told any other
> cyclists yet. We don't want to stop riding the tandem, as it is faster, safer and easier than
> riding single bikes, and more fun too. People recognise us on our regular route, and are friendly
> towards us, plus we've got a good tandem (um...3 tandems) and no suitable single bikes. Every day
> we pass the same police boxes, we have even met some policemen and of course they are not bothered
> about us "flouting" such a petty, trivial and obviously accidental law.
>
> In Japan (in a clear contrast with the UK), the commute to work is partly the responsibility of
> the employer. For instance, an injury during the commute counts as a industrial accident, and the
> employer must pay for subsequent medical bills and sick pay (the latter which for non-work-related
> injury and illness does not appear to be a statutory requirement, or even part of our generally
> reasonable working conditions). It is not clear to me why this responsibility should give them the
> right to dictate methods of travel to work, but I have heard of another company where driving to
> work was banned, and someone was fired after having a crash and getting caught.
>
> unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
> foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
> more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
> Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
> minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
> be gratefully received.
He must have a boss and that boss must have a boss and... Keep going up with appointments wherein
you point out that this is abysmal stupidity. It's just the sort of story that newspapers would
love, especially with all names & titles & quotes (when I do something like this, I have a
microrecorder running in my breast pocket).
"Peter Fox" <peterfox@eminent.demon.co.uk.not.this.bit.no.html> wrote in
message news:8$GqciABopDAFw2X@eminent.demon.co.uk...
>
> [Anyway you need protection - It's not right - The little people being bullied like this - I have
> this vision of 'The Seven Tandemi' -
Is that 7 tandems or 3 tandems and a tag-along?
pk
James Annan wrote:
> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
> the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
Cruel race ;-)
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:15:29 +0900, James Annan
<still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:
>Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
>the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
>(http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and prediction
>of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our Mother
>Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to issue
>diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours possible.
>
>The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
>(we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
>bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
>bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
>passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
>prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
>live and work.
>
>Anyway, we rode a tandem before we came to Japan, and continued after our arrival a few years ago.
>Some bureaucrat noticed this immediately, and made disapproving noises, but we ignored him - he
>refused to give us an official FRSGC badge for the bike, but we found this apparent reprimand
>surprisingly easy to cope with. Three years later, and he (or perhaps some replacement) is back
>with a vengeance. He has insisted that we cannot continue to ride the tandem to work. If we
>continue, he will ban all cycling for all members of staff. The justification for this escalation
>(and whether is it in principle legally possible) is not clear, and we haven't told any other
>cyclists yet. We don't want to stop riding the tandem, as it is faster, safer and easier than
>riding single bikes, and more fun too. People recognise us on our regular route, and are friendly
>towards us, plus we've got a good tandem (um...3 tandems) and no suitable single bikes. Every day
>we pass the same police boxes, we have even met some policemen and of course they are not bothered
>about us "flouting" such a petty, trivial and obviously accidental law.
>
>In Japan (in a clear contrast with the UK), the commute to work is partly the responsibility of the
>employer. For instance, an injury during the commute counts as a industrial accident, and the
>employer must pay for subsequent medical bills and sick pay (the latter which for non-work-related
>injury and illness does not appear to be a statutory requirement, or even part of our generally
>reasonable working conditions). It is not clear to me why this responsibility should give them the
>right to dictate methods of travel to work, but I have heard of another company where driving to
>work was banned, and someone was fired after having a crash and getting caught.
>
>unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
>foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused more
>than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more). Bureaucrats
>aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-minded petty
>jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will be gratefully
>received.
Okay....now I get it.
Short answer is that both you and your employer are being obstinate asses, though they do come off
looking slightly better than you. How do you think it looks for a quasi-governmental agency to have
their employees breaking the law on their commute to work every day?
Advice:
1. Get two bicycles
2. Get your ass off your shoulders
3. Give us all this from the beginning instead of this roundabout bull****
--
Michael Cash
"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."
Dr. Howard Sprague
Dean of Admissions
Mount Pilot College
James Annan wrote:
>
> unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
> foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
> more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
> Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
> minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
> be gratefully received.
>
Welcome to the Japanese culture I came to love so much. What you need is a good Japanese friend of
standing who can "negotiate" with the official causing you problems. It can be solved but remember
"the nail that stands out will be hammered down" so don't try aggression or disobedience - it
doesn't work in the way it might in England and you will just get a hardening of attitudes. The
phrase you need is "go with the flow". It needs to be negotiated by a respected Japanese in Japanese
(using all the subtleties of the language which only native speakers have mastered).
Ganbatte!
Tony
"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> writes:
>In news:400e7c6c$0$586$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp, James Annan <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com>
>radiated into the WorldWideWait:
>> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
>> (we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
>> bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
>> bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
>> passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
>> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where
>> we live and work.
>He must have a boss and that boss must have a boss and... Keep going up with appointments wherein
>you point out that this is abysmal stupidity.
In my limited experience of Japan I would regard it as extremely important to find out from locals
about how to manage this, the danger being that ordinary Western standards of logic and
confrontation would be regarded as so unforgivably insulting that they would precipitate a totally
negative reaction, one which the proper application of unbelievably circuitous Japanese euphemisms
could easily avoid.
--
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IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:400e7c6c$0$586$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp...
> Well, it hasn't been yet. But it has been threatened. This is at a Govt funded (quasi-independent,
> the management structure is somewhat obscure) scientific research lab in Japan
> (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/eng/). The main goal of the lab is the understanding and
> prediction of climate change, and it issues plenty of warm fuzzy statemente about "Protecting our
> Mother Earth", but when the bureaucratic chips are down, it seems that it is more important to
> issue diktats and invent rules to outlaw one of the most environmentally-friendly behaviours
> possible.
>
> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem
> (we both work at the same lab). It seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless
> bureaucrat drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding on a standard
> bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a
> passenger is very common, and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but unfortunately not the one where we
> live and work.
>
> Anyway, we rode a tandem before we came to Japan, and continued after our arrival a few years ago.
> Some bureaucrat noticed this immediately, and made disapproving noises, but we ignored him - he
> refused to give us an official FRSGC badge for the bike, but we found this apparent reprimand
> surprisingly easy to cope with. Three years later, and he (or perhaps some replacement) is back
> with a vengeance. He has insisted that we cannot continue to ride the tandem to work. If we
> continue, he will ban all cycling for all members of staff. The justification for this escalation
> (and whether is it in principle legally possible) is not clear, and we haven't told any other
> cyclists yet. We don't want to stop riding the tandem, as it is faster, safer and easier than
> riding single bikes, and more fun too. People recognise us on our regular route, and are friendly
> towards us, plus we've got a good tandem (um...3 tandems) and no suitable single bikes. Every day
> we pass the same police boxes, we have even met some policemen and of course they are not bothered
> about us "flouting" such a petty, trivial and obviously accidental law.
>
> In Japan (in a clear contrast with the UK), the commute to work is partly the responsibility of
> the employer. For instance, an injury during the commute counts as a industrial accident, and the
> employer must pay for subsequent medical bills and sick pay (the latter which for non-work-related
> injury and illness does not appear to be a statutory requirement, or even part of our generally
> reasonable working conditions). It is not clear to me why this responsibility should give them the
> right to dictate methods of travel to work, but I have heard of another company where driving to
> work was banned, and someone was fired after having a crash and getting caught.
>
> unfortunately workers' rights are still a rather foreign concept here and it is clear that any
> foreigner who kicks up too much of a fuss gets sent home in short order (I have already caused
> more than my share of trouble, and now is definitely not a good time to start any more).
> Bureaucrats aside, I like it here, and am not in a rush to leave. But I don't take kindly to small-
> minded petty jobsworths trying to push me around. Any hints and tips for a sensible strategy will
> be gratefully received.
It sounds like the boss has some good reasons for his decision ... not great, but good. I'm sure he
doesn't appreciate a foreigner trying to push him around either.
If his beef is that the company may be responsible for you while you're commuting to work, couldn't
you relieve the company of this burden? Have a lawyer draw up some legal jive saying you exempt the
company from any responsibilities outside of work.
If you feel that strongly about it, then I'm sure you wouldn't mind giving up your medical coverage
in case of an accident, or any kind of benefits you would receive if injured while commuting.
C.Q.C.
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