How to get home from late-night work without a car?
Working late or attending after-hours meetings without a car leaves employees stranded because public transit stops running and return trips take hours. This forces people to rely on unpredictable rideshares or scramble to find someone to drive them.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Expensing Uber rides to and from client sites
- 2Buying an inexpensive used car and paying for minimum insurance
- 3Checking company policies for late-working taxi or meal reimbursements
- 4Calling an Uber or Uber Black
- 5Hiring a car service with a luxury vehicle and driver
- 6Asking a friend to drive
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Accounting1 person · September 2026
“I don’t have a car and understand that during working hours I would be expected to commute. It’s quite hard though when u have to attend meetings outside of normal office hours at night where commute is easily 2 hours out of city by bus.”source ↗
Opera-learner · r/Accounting