Dr. Highway and Mr. Traffic
Wherein Our
Heroine Looks at Commuting.
It should probably be a rule that
interviews must begin about the same time the prospective employee will be
required to show up for work should she be hired. This is important for
managing expectations in high-traffic areas. It's easy to take your 1 PM,
leisurely drive on the Beltway, tack on some marginally arbitrary number on to
the time it took to get there and call that your "probable commute."
It's another thing entirely
to get up and heave your body into rush-hour traffic, either on the Beltway or
the back roads, sit still for long periods, listen to the traffic reporter, and
feel yourself steadily growing
older.
I'm just saying this
because DC's highways have a psychotic break that makes Jekyll/Hyde look like
sanity and normality. In the middle of the day? Your drive is going to take
whatever Mapquest says it's going to take. Get close to rush hour? Remortgage
the house to pay for your psychologist's bills, because you are probably going
to have rage issues stemming from those thoughts of just how much time you are
wasting sitting still in your
car.
Not to mention the
strained tendons in the left legs of those of us with standard-shift
cars.
This non-sequitur of an
essay is brought to you by your friendly, still-unemployed blogger, scrambling
to make her self-imposed 9 AM deadline. Have a nice day.
Posted: Wednesday - August 25, 2004 at 08:56 AM
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