Originally Posted by
Pamtivek
I'm trying to convince my boss to convince his boss to enable me to commute to work by bike, it would be helpful if you could post some stories or pictures of silicon valley type companies with bikes somewhere (I remember seeing once the entrance to Facebook with a bunch of bicycles parked)
See the place where I started working is a tech company and they're trying (and in more than one way succeeding) to emulate that silicon valley start-up spirit (in eastern europe). They moved into a new building, with a gym, ping pong tables, olive trees, bright white furniture and large windows etc. but they really missed the bike commuting part of it, they have some reservations about it, so I'm trying to appeal to them with social proof, I imagine a bunch of people commute with bikes in those types of companies.
so, if you've got something, help a fellow cyclist out
I don't work in tech; I'm a school teacher. No one has ever questioned how I get to work; as long as I arrive on time, everyone is happy. I suspect that there are school teachers in eastern Europe who also ride bicycles to work without being harassed about it. How is it that you, a tech worker who presumably has skills that are much more marketable than those of teachers, are getting sh*t about how you get to work? This seems unreasonable to me. If you show up at the job, on time and dressed according to the culture of your workplace, how you get there, which is officially your time not theirs, should be up to you, not them. My attitude would be: "What makes you think you have the right to determine anything about my life outside of the job?"