F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Being a fairly hefty chap, I have been known to just move forward and keep pushing when people do that. On particularly busy/packed occasions, anyway.
I believe London Underground call them "sentinels", and disapprove.
Oh dear, that's me at Dorking station. It's the last stop and if I hang around, it'll take me an extra 5 mins to get out of the car park. So I want to be first out the train.
Sorry.
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tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
It's OK Kabbes. Having a special routine so that you don't take 5 minutes to get out of the car park sounds commutery enough for me to forgive you.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
People who stand in the way as the doors open get shoved past, no exceptions. Fucking arseholes the lot of em.
I barged through a rather beefy American guy who I could hear through the doors as we stopped a few weeks back, I could hear his gasp as if noone had ever dared stop him going first.
South West haven't said much but apparently a suicide on the line between Waterloo and Woking. Been sat at Waterloo on a train for 20 minutes and we haven't gone anywhere. Obviously nothing can be done and its awful to hear, heading home seems the best option today.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Reports suggest a person hit by a train at Raynes Park. Person dead after being hit by train at Raynes Park station - Delays until 1pm (From Surrey Comet)
I eventually got to uni around 1, to be honest I think SW Trains did a great job. Shame to think that some passengers always feel selfish and complain. Took ages to get home too, but what can you do as I said before.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
They do amazingly, but this sort of thing happens. I'm always a bit shocked at the people who are willing to stand there and rage about their delay when something so terrible has happened.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Though perhaps SWT are milking things a tad? Just had this mail in regards to the person hit at Raynes Park yesterday:
Puddy_Tat
santa paws, do you ever come to the ghetto?
Though perhaps SWT are milking things a tad? Just had this mail in regards to the person hit at Raynes Park yesterday:
dunno
possible that the train involved may need checking over / repair or may have been grounded during the investigation?
and southern are in a bloody mess this evening as well...
ETA - 20 minutes late, signal failure at Bracknell.
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Me76
Not very good lurker
So the winter table has changed my train home from London bridge to leave 8 minutes earlier. This now means I have to leave on the dot of 5.30, not likely to happen, or wait 30 minutes. To add insult to injury, it leaves 8 minutes earlier but then hangs around at Crystal Palace for 4 minutes doing nothing.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The scheduled waits are the worst form of torture. Used to have a train that waited at Twickenham for 7 minutes, seemed more like 7 hours. You could get off and leg it over the bridge and pick up a faster service from the other platform, but that meant giving up your seat and cramming on to a train so crowded it would make a death camp commandant blush.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Central line fun, fucker with a cardboard cup of tea starting messing around with the tea bag in a crammed carriage, spilled tea on my leg.
Then as I was sitting on those end carriage seat sort of things I had an overly large woman cram herself in and practically sit on my lap at Stratford.
Then as I was sitting on those end carriage seat sort of things I had an overly large woman cram herself in and practically sit on my lap at Stratford.
davesgcr
Reading books
"Pathing time" - annoying but if there is not a reliable slot for the train to go onto , then it will sit there. Either that- or not run it.
Or is some places , - "recovery time" - such that a train has a booked stand to allow either "pathing" - or a chance to set off on it's next stage "on time" - for example Luton - Sutton - Wimbledon - Luton trains have some stand time at Sutton to hopefully leave on the next stage on schedule. (a circular route) - your Crystal Palac train might be a South London circular (London Bridge - Victoria via the Palace and Streatham Hill - I surmise)
Me76
Not very good lurker
It is indeed that route and the note against the change on the winter timetable says
Although, the train never left on time in its previous incarnation and I can't see that changing now, so hopefully the 4 minutes will just take up lateness!
Job latest: aargh, tug of war. It would be a lot easier if everybody just laid out what they were willing to offer from the start. I just had a 30 minute talk with the HR director of the company that wants me to go there that left me drenched in sweat from the sheer stress of decision making and, ultimately, having to let one group of people down. Choices are supposed to be nice, not leave you insomniac and worn down.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If you've told your current employer that you're thinking of leaving and they've upped their pay and/or conditions to persuade you to stay, that was probably a knee-jerk reaction to avoid the hassle of finding a replacement for you. So should you stay, once the dust settles they'll resent you and gob in your tea every morning. Take the new job and send us a stick of rock.
davesgcr
Reading books
A good guess then ! Anyone might think or surmise I once had something to do with timetablng in South London
Puddy_Tat
santa paws, do you ever come to the ghetto?
got diverted via kingston and wimbledon, arrived on platform 7 (one of the secret-ish ones)
not much worse than usual on the bridge
Good thought.
But I am staying. Final decision. I must be crazy, but I have been successfully sweet-talked back into bed.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Good for you. Although there is a limit to the number of times that strategy will work.
With this kind of decision, the only way to make a good one is to "go with the gut" - ultimately, the right choice is the one you think will make you feel good about it. And, at risk of going all NLP, we make the best decisions we can based on the information we have available to us. I am sure you have made the best decision you can, and I wish you luck and lots of good feelings in your rejuvenated career at XYZ Corp (Holdings), Inc.
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