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TLO doesn't travel to London at a cost of 4,000 a year, which is why he preaches rudely and sanctimoniously to me from his ivory tower about which part of one of the country's shittest firms I should sympathise with. And he still hasn't worked out that I'm past caring whose fault it is *this...

And you do some managers a disservice with your flippant "straight out of university" remark. Equally, I have spent 20 years putting up with rude, surly, front line staff. Generally speaking, I'd say your description of them bears no relation to a good percentage. The bottom line is that I...

I'm not having that. You are just misunderstanding my over-arching point, mate. This instance may well have been down to shocking management, I agree. However, whatever the issue of the day is, the people working on the trains always prefer to play politics with passenger's lives rather...

Not disputing any of that, but incompetent management is a thing in all walks of life. As far as I'm concerned, you're all the same company and you don't operate with the customer in mind and never have. For that reason, I hold the whole lot of you in complete contempt.

*MY* work do is on Friday though. Annoying. Luckily, the strike should make getting a cab home nice and easy. :rolleyes:

They come crawling out of the woodwork every single time the train is within 5 minutes of being on time. I know this because I've been asked two, maybe even three, times in the past six weeks.

Seriously? The only franchise that no longer need to increase numbers to increase profits. All they have to do is carry out a bare minimum level of service and they get their money. And they can't even manage that - the government have continued to move the goalposts rather than penalise...

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I'd agree with this. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they were being honest about their reasoning. That said, the buck stops with the shambolic company and the government for handing them this uniquely ill-considered type of franchise. I genuinely find two things absolutely...

Absolute drivel from start to finish. I've read your posts, they ARE nausEating. Had YOU bothered to read MY posts, you'd know I don't seek to politicise the issue at all, I'd take the old set-up at a stroke right now because anecdotally the service prior to 2015 wasn't much different from...

Yes, that too. How dare he take this pompous line that he is in any way neutral, regardless of his clear lack of experience in using their services? He's nothing of the sort and a blatant apologist for the dire status quo,

It does nothing of the sort. I find your perma-Tory defending utterly nausiating when unlike myself and THPP, you clearly don't use their terrible service anything approaching regularly.

Yep, definitely the fault of the unions. Maybe they should spend loads of money on a nasty poster campaign blaming the RMT? How the fck is Charles Horton still in a job? He should be out on his arse. Actually he should have been out on his arse MONTHS ago, the contemptible arrogant little turd.

Ex-wànker, Norman Baker has written an open letter to Southern, and it's good stuff too:

You've been never this quick to blame either Sasta or the government for the absolutely disgraceful level of service we've witnessed for nearly 12 months now. But now the union are striking and have ruined maybe 15 days as opposed to probably 150 days or more of absolute shambles, they're "the...

But clearly it doesn't have to be, as the unions are proving. You're still spending an inordinate amount of time slagging off the unions when they represent a small fraction of the problem.

Regardless of the obvious fact that the GMT are a prickly, militant organisation, I would urge you not to lose sight of the fact that the cluster**** that is our train operating company is where the blame lies. They manage their industrial relations about as well as they manage the train service.

Lovely stuff.

Apologies - RMT indeed :lolol: The difference between criticising the union for withhlding labour and criticising the Southern for not providing a service is that when the union do it, they don't get paid. Southern, on the other hand, can treat their customers with contempt (and do), safe in...

I'm not painting them as heroes - I'm saying they are not the major reason behind our utterly crap service. They are simply exercising their right to strike, which is inconvenient and annoying to us, but not really the reason for the omnishambles we witness. Afterall, where is the evidence...