Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
You can normally travel with the season ticket anyway.
The only time I got sorted SWT gave me £20 in cold, hard cash. Was spunked by lunchtime.
F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute
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You can normally travel with the season ticket anyway.
The only time I got sorted SWT gave me £20 in cold, hard cash. Was spunked by lunchtime.
Me76
Not very good lurker
Just bought my ticket for next week with a load of vouchers (£16.80). The lady behind the counter was commending me on doing it. She says she encourages everyone to but most can't be bothered.
I realise there is a strike next week but if I have my ticket then I can still get on the tubes and buses for cheaper so it has to be done.
I realise there is a strike next week but if I have my ticket then I can still get on the tubes and buses for cheaper so it has to be done.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Good luck to all you poor sods who have to use Southern services this week. Looks like it will be horrendous.
Me76
Not very good lurker
So hot to London Bridge today and heard an announcement for the 17.50 to Tulse Hill that hasn't existed on the emergency timetable. The 18.08 was up on the board too and that hasn't been there in these 'emergency' times.
Did a search for tomorrow's trains and they still aren't showing.
What's occurring?
Did a search for tomorrow's trains and they still aren't showing.
What's occurring?
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
First train got cancelled. Replacement was late enough that the one after came first.
Got on a tube. Driver told us to cross over the platform and use the other train.
Then calmly closed the doors with the three remaining people on his train and carried on his merry way.
You've got to laugh or else you'll just start lashing out blindly.
Got on a tube. Driver told us to cross over the platform and use the other train.
Then calmly closed the doors with the three remaining people on his train and carried on his merry way.
You've got to laugh or else you'll just start lashing out blindly.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
We’re Hiring : Toss Management at Southern Rail
'
Are you world class at not giving a toss about customers ?
Southern Rail is a leader in the avoidance of toss giving and we are looking to lead our team of indifference solutions into the 20th century. You will innovate new ways of not giving a toss about customers and gain new skills in disruptive failure to deliver a service so wretched that customers can't see the difference between malice and incompetence....'
Tossers...
'
Are you world class at not giving a toss about customers ?
Southern Rail is a leader in the avoidance of toss giving and we are looking to lead our team of indifference solutions into the 20th century. You will innovate new ways of not giving a toss about customers and gain new skills in disruptive failure to deliver a service so wretched that customers can't see the difference between malice and incompetence....'
Tossers...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
How would their passengers notice?
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
“I thought I might as well come to the station anyway, as the arrival of trains seems to be determined more by the cosmic forces of fate than any sort of timetable. At least if one doesn’t come I know there’s an actual reason. It’s the not knowing that kills you.”
Train strike leaves commuters with roughly the same chance of getting to work
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Just to add insult to injury Southern Rail trains are now attacking passengers:
Train ceiling panel falls on London-bound passengers - BBC News
Train ceiling panel falls on London-bound passengers - BBC News
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
www. slatergordon .co.uk
plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
Incentive for my broken toes to improve enough that I can cycle in. Trains are shitNew Southern Rail strike to take place - Sept 7th and 8th.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Southern rail owner reports profits of nearly £100m
'Insert ironic laughing emoji'
Live reaction to this obscenity here - 'The service is completely useless': commuters react to Southern rail profit hike - live
'Insert ironic laughing emoji'
Live reaction to this obscenity here - 'The service is completely useless': commuters react to Southern rail profit hike - live
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The parent company's profit comes from their bus operations and Southeastern and LM. As it says in the article GTR is making a loss, and is expected to do so for the next couple of years.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Apart from the "Oh isn't this terrible" thing, exactly what difference does that actually make to the current goings on at Southern? It's not really a money issue. It's a staff deployment dispute and infrastructure (which is nothing to do with GTR) problem issue.And Apple only sell their toot in Ireland
And in any case the revenue made by Southern goes to the DfT, which the deal they are running the service under.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If you'd lost your job cos of their incompetence you may be singing a different tune.
They have taken on the job, they can't do it, they should be stripped of all assests and put in the stocks, forever.
Except that up until a few years ago they were doing the job just fine. Until the problems at London Bridge....nothing to do with them....and the staffing dispute, which was initiated by the policy of the DfT.
The whole "strip them of their franchise" thing is a complete red herring because any company that took over would be facing exactly the same problems that Southern are having. And who would want to run that franchise atm anyway? No one!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
This blaming the DfT is such a crock of shit spoon fed to idiots looking to appease the money grabbing scumbags. IF it was a genuine DfT initiative, a professional operator would have told them to get fucked, foreseeing the problems that would be caused.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
I did read that at the last discussions around the table Southern offered union members guarantees that up to the end of the current franchise there would be no loss of conductor staff while drivers were asked to close the doors, and there'd be no reduction in pay or overtime - basically saying, your job and pay is guaranteed up to the end of the franchise. If true then I'm blaming the unions for striking as I really can't see what more the company can offer.
But at the same time if the company have made £100m (even if it's on the buses, it's the same company) they should fucking well invest it in all sorts of areas lacking at the moment. Maybe give incentives for staff to return to work.
Either way Govia needs stripping of the franchise and told to fuck off based on their mis-management of the whole issue, let alone the appaling sevice.
But at the same time if the company have made £100m (even if it's on the buses, it's the same company) they should fucking well invest it in all sorts of areas lacking at the moment
. Maybe give incentives for staff to return to work.Either way Govia needs stripping of the franchise and told to fuck off based on their mis-management of the whole issue, let alone the appaling sevice.
And how would they have done that exactly? It is a franchise stipulation. TOCs have to run their franchises under the terms laid down by the DfT.
The union's argument is that the change in role GTR want to introduce is just not safe - that's the reason for the strikes. Whether that is true or not depends on who you want to believe.I did read that at the last discussions around the table Southern offered union members guarantees that up to the end of the current franchise there would be no loss of conductor staff while drivers were asked to close the doors, and there'd be no reduction in pay or overtime - basically saying, your job and pay is guaranteed up to the end of the franchise. If true then I'm blaming the unions for striking as I really can't see what more the company can offer.
But at the same time if the company have made £100m (even if it's on the buses, it's the same company) they should fucking well invest it in all sorts of areas lacking at the moment
Either way Govia needs stripping of the franchise and told to fuck off based on their mis-management of the whole issue, let alone the appaling sevice.
And invest in which areas though? The £20 million figure that is going around atm isn't going to them (despite what is being claimed by headlines in the media), it's going to Network Rail. The vast majority is being spend on infrastructure.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
They would have said, "We're professionals and what you're proposing will cause problems and as we're a professional TOC and not vacuous, money-grabbing scumbags, we will not take up the franchise under these terms."
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
You need someone going up and down the train I absolutely agree, but you don't necessarily need them to close the doors. You'd need station staff at busy stations for this I reckon, which is the majority at rush hour for sure. But ultimately technology will automate the whole thing. Technology will march on. They can keep striking up to then but then there'll be no job to strike from.
But the key point is the company are fuckers.
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