Might reduce the number of trains cancelled due to unavailable staff? Perhaps some of the guards could retrain to push the buttons in the drivers cabs... two birds with one stone?
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- Thread starter Ernest
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Might reduce the number of trains cancelled due to unavailable staff? Perhaps some of the guards could retrain to push the buttons in the drivers cabs... two birds with one stone?
Deadly Danson
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Or GTR could just employ sufficient staff to do the job?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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This. It's a completely puerile blinkered way of thinking. Sort of genuinely feel sorry for anybody who thinks that way, because their wider worldview is going to be so narrow as to be not worth having. I blame the Tory-voting parents.
Not a lot does happen in France as they are always on strike.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Exactly. Thankfully Mrs Freakout has a job which can be inconvenienced for just one day. The railway workers might not be so lucky.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
She has not been inconvenienced just one day, as it has been over two days actually. with more strike action planned.
We will agree to disagree, there is no point in arguing with anyone on here with blinkered points of views, it has nothing to do with voting Tory either as I don't vote Tory,UKIP or another right wing party. I just simply disagree with the unions actions, they seem to use bully boy tactics just like the fat cat bosses. One of my best friends is union official for the underground and he tells me all sorts, which makes me uneasy with the way they operate. I know the unions do good and have a valid point, it just seems the people who get inconvenienced the most are the fare paying public.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Actually she did get assaulted in February this year, and had a phone stolen (along with another passenger) whilst on the train with a guard on, who could not be found by passengers until the train arrived in Brighton.
So that helped did it not, anyway there are countless incidents on trains with guards, that get sorted out by passengers rather than guards who are not interested or simply dont care.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
You got to hear about that quick, thought they would of covered that up better.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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So it never happened to you personally? Phew! THAT'S a relief! Everything must be OK then
Deadly Danson
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Two that I've heard of this morning with poorly trained managers trying to do guards jobs making serious safety critical errors which have put the public at risk. Anyone would think the guards and drivers job is harder than people on here think.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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good job no one is supporting reducing staff levels, there's none being proposed here.
Really ? Don't we all know deep down which way this is going ?
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I don't use the train so a strike went way over my head.
But it is quiet today with zero trains passing my back garden.
Downside is my Daughter and Grand Daughter are stuck in Cardiff. She doesn't fancy trying her luck on a train with a three YO and pushchair.
But it is quiet today with zero trains passing my back garden.
Downside is my Daughter and Grand Daughter are stuck in Cardiff. She doesn't fancy trying her luck on a train with a three YO and pushchair.