Motorcycle Commuting Finally Pays Off!

[Gone in 60]

Well, motorcycle commuting has finally paid me the best benefit possible. Reduced commute times, better fuel economy and retention of sanity from not sitting in traffic? Happy wife because I don't want to throw something when I get home from work? A clear mind? The ability to park indoors, in my shop, away from the ravages of the homeless who hove around our back alley?

Yeah, all of those things are fine, I guess.

But, for years, I have been working in a semi-private work area in my office, when I'm not in the shop out back. I have a partition, and when I change into and out of my riding gear, I'm not fully exposing myself to others in the office. But, I haven't been too careful about it. Heck, you work with people for almost 20 years, they're gonna see something from time to time.

I didn't realize how much of an issue this apparently was...

The boss man decided to work from home from now on. So, my coworkers got together and collectively decided that I should get his private office, so that I can shut the door and change in private.

I just finished outfitting it to my needs. I've got room for a changing couch, a cabinet to hold my gear, and a helmet table. There's a TV to watch important industry news (or cartoons).

Still more floor space. If a project bike can fit through the door... maybe...

 

[misterprofessionality]

For me it pays off in the form of extremely reduced insurance costs, but from what I know about SoCal that's not true for you.

My changing room is a 5'x4' powder room in the back of the office. They do keep telling me i should park my bike in the breezeway but i swear the other businesses in this building are going to have a fit about that.

 

[Gone in 60]

Yeah, no real insurance breaks here for riding. Luckily, the CB isn't classified as a sporty bike where I live by USAA, so it's not a killer on cost. Funny you should mention other businesses complaining about your parking arrangements. We've been in a years-long turf war with our neighboring business over parking. Putting my bike inside my shop keeps me out of the battle.

 

[tod.branko_imp]

Well, motorcycle commuting has finally paid me the best benefit possible. Reduced commute times, better fuel economy and retention of sanity from not sitting in traffic? Happy wife because I don't want to throw something when I get home from work? A clear mind? The ability to park indoors, in my shop, away from the ravages of the homeless who hove around our back alley?

Yeah, all of those things are fine, I guess.

But, for years, I have been working in a semi-private work area in my office, when I'm not in the shop out back. I have a partition, and when I change into and out of my riding gear, I'm not fully exposing myself to others in the office. But, I haven't been too careful about it. Heck, you work with people for almost 20 years, they're gonna see something from time to time.

I didn't realize how much of an issue this apparently was...

The boss man decided to work from home from now on. So, my coworkers got together and collectively decided that I should get his private office, so that I can shut the door and change in private.

I just finished outfitting it to my needs. I've got room for a changing couch, a cabinet to hold my gear, and a helmet table. There's a TV to watch important industry news (or cartoons).

Still more floor space. If a project bike can fit through the door... maybe...

Congratulations!

'14 CB1100 STD 5 speed

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

Well, motorcycle commuting has finally paid me the best benefit possible. Reduced commute times, better fuel economy and retention of sanity from not sitting in traffic? Happy wife because I don't want to throw something when I get home from work? A clear mind? The ability to park indoors, in my shop, away from the ravages of the homeless who hove around our back alley?

Yeah, all of those things are fine, I guess.

But, for years, I have been working in a semi-private work area in my office, when I'm not in the shop out back. I have a partition, and when I change into and out of my riding gear, I'm not fully exposing myself to others in the office. But, I haven't been too careful about it. Heck, you work with people for almost 20 years, they're gonna see something from time to time.

I didn't realize how much of an issue this apparently was...

The boss man decided to work from home from now on. So, my coworkers got together and collectively decided that I should get his private office, so that I can shut the door and change in private.

I just finished outfitting it to my needs. I've got room for a changing couch, a cabinet to hold my gear, and a helmet table. There's a TV to watch important industry news (or cartoons).

Still more floor space. If a project bike can fit through the door... maybe...

That certainly beats suiting up and down in the urine-soaked corporate washrooms.

 

[Cormanus]

Well played, Gone.

 

[emptysea]

Nice looking space... do the window blinds work?

 

[Gone in 60]

The blinds work, but the office is pretty dark when they are pulled. There are two large West-facing windows that are one-way glass, but I guess you could see in if it were dark outside and the lights are on. But, I've been changing clothes that way for years, so this would be nothing new.

 

[Tev62]

That is a very nice "Man Cave" and at work too!

 

[Whoops]

Well, motorcycle commuting has finally paid me the best benefit possible. Reduced commute times, better fuel economy and retention of sanity from not sitting in traffic? Happy wife because I don't want to throw something when I get home from work? A clear mind? The ability to park indoors, in my shop, away from the ravages of the homeless who hove around our back alley?

Yeah, all of those things are fine, I guess.

But, for years, I have been working in a semi-private work area in my office, when I'm not in the shop out back. I have a partition, and when I change into and out of my riding gear, I'm not fully exposing myself to others in the office. But, I haven't been too careful about it. Heck, you work with people for almost 20 years, they're gonna see something from time to time.

I didn't realize how much of an issue this apparently was...

The boss man decided to work from home from now on. So, my coworkers got together and collectively decided that I should get his private office, so that I can shut the door and change in private.

I just finished outfitting it to my needs. I've got room for a changing couch, a cabinet to hold my gear, and a helmet table. There's a TV to watch important industry news (or cartoons).

Still more floor space. If a project bike can fit through the door... maybe...

Wasn’t the cabinet over by the window previously? I could swear when several of us were down there looking for the keys to your precious, that’s where it was.

 

[Gone in 60]

So that was you? Creepy black van, guy inside looking through binoculars?

 

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

When I do ride to work on Wednesdays, I like to park the bike where it will be in the shade in the afternoons. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not. At one gig, I had to arrive somewhat early to get the right spot before a coworker got it.

 

[Stichill]

Dream office! Envy.