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I didn't get it
Cause some say they are fully suspended and some only partially.
Some lines will therefore have enough drivers and other staff available to run some kind of skeleton service late into this evening while other lines wouldn't. Hence some have remained open while other lines have closed early.
Rail staff (particularly drivers) don't work 'normal' shifts such as 9-5 or 4pm-midnight, they work specific 'jobs' (turn up at a specific time to drive specific services) and therefore could work 1:52pm till 9:19pm or 6:42am to 4:15pm for example. Dependant on how this works out more lines could have more drivers than other.
Needless to say while some lines have managed to run a good service tonight I imagine we'll see an almost complete network shut down tomorrow and Thursday.
So what do you do between you sacking the existing drivers and the new drivers jobs being advertised and resourced, candidates being interviewed, physcometrically tested, hired and trained?
The whole process will take a minimum of six months (http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/dd-training.htm)
PS: When I mean in other posts about safeguarding jobs have a read of this - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-374010/Traumatised-tube-driver-lose-job.html
90 minutes on a jam-packed bus to travel 6.2 miles to work. My stop is the 3rd stop after the start of the route, and my stop was the last stop at which they were letting people on. Didn't get a seat until just before Fleet St (heading from Chelsea to Liverpool St.) and people were getting very fucking stroppy indeed.
Can't wait to do it again tonight.
This equation doesn't stand up as far as I can see - the policeman who assaulted Ian Tomlinson was in no immediate danger - he wasn't making a 'split second decision' nor were any of the other neon hooligans who used that day as an excuse to beat up a few people they don't like.
There was no excuse for a great deal of the police behaviour that day, nor for the blatant lying to protect colleagues that went on afterward, and during in the form of covered faces and IDs. This is perhaps the most relevant resemblance!
But I can't agree with Aladdin either - this was gross misconduct as far as I can see, and was, as Flash points out, a routine operation. The fact that there was evidence of lying to protect colleagues makes it worse.
Really - you should just walk Either that of stop off at a pub for a couple of hours to let the crowds die down
Nope.
I have to leave at 7 tomorrow to be sure to get to school on time and not get stuck in a ridiculously crowded bus - then I have to do two exams. Yes, I know other people have bigger problems, but on days of exam the last thing I want to do is to be caused extra stress by being stuck in a traffic jam in a crowded bus.
This, will get messy.
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Why on earth?!?
everything else was fucked this morning. :thumb:
how long will this last????
The RMT should be forced to reimburse, in full, any out-of-pocket expenses for any business or person caused by his strike. That should focus the minds of the greedy fucks who have walked out, coincidentally on a nice warm summer's day. Funny how these strikes never happen in February, isn't it?
Incidentally, if you argue for unions to reimburse people for inconvenience and/or extra expenses incurred, you're going to have to apply that to absolutely all strikes and strikers, not just those that irritate you. Frankly, that scenario sounds like a hellhole I would not want to live in.
Not many - in fact I can't think of any off hand. And there are cases where police have been prosecuted for causing deaths by driving, which is the most common form of police killing (and the nearest to routine I can think off - even if it less routine than driving a tube train and opening the wrong door)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/speeding-policeman-jailed-for-girls-death-1677358.html
Well, yes, but I wasn't talking about him. I don't think we can know whether he's going to be prosecuted or not (and to be honest I'm willing to bet money he will be). I'm more talking about the coppers such as the one's who shot Menzes (as I assume is Aladdin as we're talking about coppers making mistakes in the course of their duties rather than walloping passers by because they'd had a bad day)
Well I didn't know that at the time did I?
Also I was making this journey at 7am. Not many pubs open then.
My journey home was even more entertaining. Liverpool St to Sloane Square (5.5 miles) took 2 hours. That is considerably less than walking speed but I did get a seat and there was a hot girl sat opposite me so I couldn't be bothered to move.
Tomorrow however, I shall walk to and from work (5.6 miles) as I invisage public transport being even worse tomorrow now people know how bad it is and seek to leave home earlier.
Nooooooooooo, you utter spoon. I *meant* on the way home! People have been really dumb today... Look at your final comment in what I quoted, I was responding to that
I am livid!
Strikers shouldn't be liable to their employers, providing the strikes are legal, but they should be liable to all third parties. If the RMT want to use innocent third parties as an extortion tool then they can fucking well pay for it.
When the scum at Stagecoach had a 48-hour walkout (they wanted 16%, Stagecoach offered a miserly 9%) the other year it cost me £30, when that was close to being a day's net wages for me. Why should I have to pay for their greed?
Plus I got to see Buckingham Palace, stroll down the Mall, Trafalgar Square, stroll down the Strand, past the Courts, past St. Pauls and then on to work. Quite a nice journey.