In the midst of suckage...

[pfloyd]

So, big news came down the pipeline today...


Sometime in 2009, the facility here in Marlboro will be closing down, and relocating to somewhere in Burlington.
To me, this means a couple of things...
1. My commute now changes from roughly 15-20 minutes (depending on stops) to over an hour. Plus, I have to take I290 to I495 to Rt 3... yuck! I hate the 495-3 Lowell interchange, and Rt 3 inbound toward 95/128 is horrendous in the morning.
2. Two days a week, I have to take Marcus to preschool, as C's school day starts 15-20 minutes earlier. Since preschool doesn't start until after 8am, I won't be getting to work until 930 or so. The days he doesn't have preschool, I have to shuttle him to whomever will be watching him that day, whether it's my parents or whoever. Again, that pushes my arrival time back.
To balance that, I will either have to work later in the evening, or take shorter lunch breaks -- if I take them at all. (I get 1 hour lunch plus two 15-minute breaks. I have never taken the short breaks since I started here.)

In other good news... no raises this year. That really bites. So I'm expected to travel further, but I get nothing extra to offset the extra fuel I have to expend to get to work?
Let's look at a comparison here...

Worcester to Marlboro
Distance = 12.2 miles using 290 to backroads to 20
ETA = 16 minutes

Worcester to Burlington -- rough estimate since I don't know the address of the new place
Distance = 48.2 miles using 290 - 495 - 3
ETA = ~56 minutes

Some quick math...

I've been running at about 27 miles per gallon... 13 gallon tank. Range should equal roughly 350 miles.
For Marlboro, that means a complete 13 gallon fill every 14 work days, give or take, with a round trip of 25 miles. It's been more like 30, so that's a fill-up every 12 work days.

For Burlington, this is what I'm projecting:
Roughly 100 miles round trip, that's a complete fill-up every 3.5 work days... nearly four times as often. Spending four times the money on gas for this job. I'd be spending upwards of $100 per week just on fuel.
That blows big time.

*sigh*

At least I'll still be working...

No use getting excited about it yet... still in the future, lots can happen...

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Another route is the way I used to commute from Worcester to Burlington - I290 -> I495 -> Rt2 -> Rt2A -> I95/Rt128

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

I'll check the feasibility of that too, but that corner in Concord can be a pain... morseo with the rotary near the prison.

I used to work a lot of Dell service calls in Burlington. The only good thing about it was Chick-Fill-A for lunch at the mall.

[ryoga77.livejournal.com]

If I'm still in Worcester next year, we can carpool. I take route 2, its actually the quickest, and I go through Concord center.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

That idea would kind of depend on how our hours mesh. Right now I'm 9am-6pm, but that could change between now and then as well.