11th January 2011, 01:08 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I am surprised that UK units don't take a similar approach....When working for one of the larger units in the UK in the 90s i offered to sort out my own accommodation for the equivalent of the sub - which was ?15 per night (undercutting the B&B costs by about ?30) - but was told that they could not do that as it 'would create a precedent'. Unfortunate really, they paid ?60-odd per night (accommodation + sub), and i still went and crashed where i had intended half the time i was on those jobs.
After all, one of my most cherished memories of a B&B was in Maidstone, where we turned up and the door was answered by a bloke who looked as though he had most of his dinners from the previous 3 months on his vest; the place smelled of boiled cabbage; the floors were tacky to the touch, and - if memory serves me right - the sheets were nylon. truly you couldn't have made it up.
they moved us out within a couple of days.
we've had a few jobs - away and local - and put staff up. the thing i realise now is that it is luck of the draw whether the accommodation is good or bad. which, of course, you only find out after the fact.
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