yxee
Well-known member
I've got no choice tomorrow but WFH Wed/Thurs. I imagine it'll be busier than usual, with people realising they have no choice but to WFH during the driver strikes next week (so making more effort to come in this week).
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- Thread starter Ernest
- Start date
You have to worry. It looks like he's based his approach on one of the most dreadful politicians this country has produced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCem9EZb-YA
wakeytom
New member
Looks like they can get things sorted much quicker on the underground....
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
SASTA don't 'run' the underground.
wakeytom
New member
I know that but strikes called off today
NBSML will have to go to work now! Oh there's an overground strike!
yxee
Well-known member
Views on grayling's newest initiative? I'm beginning to think he is useless. Just realised he was behind the cuts to prisons that has created this latest crisis...
The only way something will change is when safety is somehow seriously compromised either in injury or worse. Barber alluded to this and for once I agree with him. Sad but true.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
WFH now till next Monday
Lower West Stander
Well-known member
Don't get me started.
The southern franchise is in total meltdown, management and unions at loggerheads, commuters at the end of their tether and he's fart arsing around building a stupid, pointless line between Oxford and Cambridge with some silly quasi-privatisation scheme.
Network Rail doesn't need competition or privatisation - it just needs better staffing and more money.
And that's coming from me as a Tory voter.
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Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Basically they have hung us out to dry. The unions are protecting their members as you would expect and we (as in the genuine working man and women) are being ****ed over royally. By EVERYONE.
deletebeepbeepbeep
Well-known member
- May 12, 2009
- 20,961
Privatise the profits pass the losses on to the taxpayer. Typical tories.
Yoda
English & European
Because it worked so well under RailTrack, and they had such a good track record.
Potters Bar?
Hatfield?
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
Grayling, faced by the worst rail catastrophe in decades, is now on LBC proposing a new Oyster style ticketing system.
FFS man - what ridiculous timing.
There's chaos out there you prat. Sort it out
FFS man - what ridiculous timing.
There's chaos out there you prat. Sort it out
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Same as. I have pretty much been given carte blanche to WFH now whenever there is a strike or even a possibility of trains screwing up.
Hotchilidog
Well-known member
- Jan 24, 2009
- 8,711
Grayling now promoting privatised monopolies whereby the the ToC's takeover tracks as well as the trian. Pretty sure the government motivation is out there for all to see. The idea that Grayling wants to put "Passengers at the heart of delivery" is total nonsense. Passengers now in a position to be totally exploited for profit more like.
nicko31
Well-known member
Has anyone lost on there lost their job because of southern? The situation is beyond the joke now
deletebeepbeepbeep
Well-known member
- May 12, 2009
- 20,961
We can also confidently predict that anything announced by Chris Grayling MP has at least a 95% chance of being a colossal ****up on every level imaginable.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Rail travel in Sussex is no longer fit for purpose.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,221
Because it worked so well under RailTrack, and they had such a good track record.
Potters Bar?
Hatfield?
This to me is the most alarmingly irresponsible development of all. To hand over responsibility for the tracks to the privatised TOCs, with all the inevitable corner cuttings on cost and sub-contracting ever downwards to the cheapest bidder will make the railways infinitely more dangerous than they are at present. Can't believe this to be allowed to happen. It's literally gambling with people's lives. Shocking.