can't be made sit

[tufguy]

Hi guys,


Can we say "Any employee can't be made sit in the cab before more than 2 hours of the login time"(I mean we can say you cannot make any employee sit in the cab before 2 hours).

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I don't know what you mean by "before two hours", but I do know that we don't say "Any employee can't..." This should be "No employee can..."

Perhaps you mean, "No employee can be made to sit in the cab more than two hours before the login time." but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. What is this about?

 

[tufguy]

We can say "You can't make any employee sit" but we say "No employee can be made to sit". we have to use "To".

 

[lotus888]

No employee can take a cab for more than two hours prior to starting work.

or

No employee can take a cab for more than two hours to get to work.


Assuming work is where he/she is going.



--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

Lotus, I don't think this talking about taxi/cab rides. Why would an employer regulate the length of taxi/cab rides to get to work?

 

[lotus888]

I'm not exactly sure what the context is. But sometimes employers have to pay for employee travel to work -- especially if it is a sales job or a field position.

From login time, I'm assuming the person is going to work.

Hopefully, tufguy can give us more context.


--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

My guess is "cab" refers to the driver/operator compartment of a truck, locomotive, crane, etc. If an employer regulated travel they are paying for. they would regulate the cost, not the time.

But you are right, we need more context.

 

[lotus888]

Yes, I think you're right. It is probably the cab of a construction vehicle. It makes sense to not allow someone to sit in that cab for more than two hours. I'm guessing that login time is the time spent in the cab. Then the following may make sense:

No employee can sit in the cab for more than two hours.

It's just that "before more than 2 hours" is confusing in the original sentence.



--lotus

 

[tufguy]

We have a rule here, if the company is providing the cab to the employees so they cannot make any employee sit in cab, 2 hours prior to the login time(when the work starts in company). If thw work starts at 9 so the maximum time an employee can spend in travelling to work is 2 hours, so the first pick up shouldn't be done before 7. Could you please tell me whether we have to use "To" in indirect speech?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Can you tell us what you mean by "cab"?

 

[tufguy]

A car that is provided by the company for pick-up and drop. Employee doesn't have to pay anything.

 

[SoothingDave]

I think you are trying to say something like:

No employee taxicab transportation to work may begin more than 2 hours before employee's starting time.

Or

All employee taxicab transportation to work must begin within 2 hours of the shift starting time.

 

[SoothingDave]

Or maybe you mean:

No employee will have to spend more than 2 hours travelling to work via company-paid taxicab.

 

[lotus888]

No employee can use a company car for more than two hours to get to work.


--lotus

 

[Tdol]

You could call it a company shuttle service.

 

[SoothingDave]

Is this a limitation on the employees or a limitation on what the employer can expect the employee to put up with? You seem to want to write it as restricting the employees, but I don't think any sane person wants to spend more than 2 hours getting to work.

 

[lotus888]

No employee shall be required to ride in the company shuttle for more than 2 hours to get to work.

Are we getting close?



--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

We may be getting closer, but this entire idea seems implausible to me.

 

[lotus888]

Yeah, who wants to ride on shuttle for 2 hours before starting work?


--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

And how could the company make that work? The longer the trip, the more likely that the shuttle could not be used for multiple employees.