No Southern Trains Most of Next Week -but will probably still be rubbish on the other days

Ernest said:

A very good reason why this has been done

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BBassic said:

Genuinely baffles me how bosses can be anything less than sympathetic with their staff when you being late is clearly, demonstrably, out of your hands.

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Ernest said:

A very good reason why this has been done

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Uncle Buck said:

So on Thursday and Saturday the trains are still ****ed, as the stock is in the wrong place?

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pasty said:

Absolutely this. Pathetic PR attempt by the unions. I can hear the rhetoric already. "We have generously conceded to halve the strike action..."

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Obviously I'm not a commuter but it does impact me. This season I've had to give up staying in Brighton overnight as the risk of not making my early flight it too great and also very stressful. I now have to travel to Gatwick on the last train and stay at an airport hotel. I want it to end as much as the next person.

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Ernest said:

A very good reason why this has been done

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spring hall convert said:

How patient should business be then? None of this is their fault, their priority is to their shareholders, not to be sympathetic with the cause of an employees repeated non-attendance/ lateness, no matter how understandable the reason is. If someone else can do it with less fuss then they're not going to wait indefinitely.....

It's not like an employer can have any faith that this is going to be resolved in the short term.

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spring hall convert said:

How patient should business be then? None of this is their fault, their priority is to their shareholders, not to be sympathetic with the cause of an employees repeated non-attendance/ lateness, no matter how understandable the reason is. If someone else can do it with less fuss then they're not going to wait indefinitely.....

It's not like an employer can have any faith that this is going to be resolved in the short term.

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Worthingite said:

Oh the ****ing indignity!!!!!!!

I live in Worthing and work in Hove. Because of the train strikes, what will usually be a 45-50 minute journey by bus will now become anything up to 2 1/2 hours, as has happened on many occasions previously. The roads become more congested, the buses become cattle trucks, and it makes a crappy commute part of a 14 hour day. It's ok though, at least I don't have to sleep in a hotel airport. Because that's absolutely inhuman.

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spring hall convert said:

How patient should business be then? None of this is their fault, their priority is to their shareholders, not to be sympathetic with the cause of an employees repeated non-attendance/ lateness, no matter how understandable the reason is. If someone else can do it with less fuss then they're not going to wait indefinitely.....

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Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:

Depends on the job really. I mean I'm lucky in that I can work from home. I dont like it much TBH as I enjoy(!) going into work but most of my stuff is email or phone so do I need to be in the office if Im not meeting people etc. Probably not.

Appreciate not everyone is in the same position.

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Tom Hark said:

And, most disgusting of all, the government department charged with keeping the country's transport infrastructure running smoothly appear perfectly content to let them do so.

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Tom Hark said:

It's a very very tricky one. Most employers in my experience are reasonably understanding and will try to accommodate the employee's short-term needs so far as is possible. But in the end a company's prime responsibility is to get the job done. Southern have somehow contrived in a short space of time to turn a large contingent of many companies work forces from highly-committed long-hours dedicated professionals into a workforce of highly-stressed-out clock-watching nine-to-fivers. And I mean that with no disrespect whatsoever. Basically Southern have killed the concept of commuting even the mickiest of mousiest distances to your job. And, most disgusting of all, the government department charged with keeping the country's transport infrastructure running smoothly appear perfectly content to let them do so.

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Gwylan said:

There should be some hollow laughter come next general election when the Tories come out with their 'party for business' spiel. I wonder if anyone will remember all the lost days then

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beorhthelm said:

you appear to missed out the union, whose strikes are causing the most significant disruption. including striking on already DOO London Metro services. i think this will be the biggest issue, not the few tens of thousands who cant commute up from the coast, it will be the hundreds of thousands across south London that haven't seen a guard in decades, wondering why they cant get a train.

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Tom Hark said:

I think you'll find that most people, up to to and including the most vehement anti-union Tory voters, are intelligent enough to acknowledge that the level of service provided by Southern is a disgrace on a daily basis, not just on the handful of strike dates.

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Tom Hark said:

This does actually appear to be becoming a genuine election-changer in the Southern region

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