I think that might be the final straw for me at the RailUK forums

[SheilaNaGig]

He had to take time out of his busy schedule to write a letter of complaint and post about it on the internet. It's not unreasonable to expect all rail staff to have memorised all the nuances of the ticket restrictions

I suspect that that’s a part of the indignation here: I suspect that Bungle73 feels that staff who’s job it is to help travellers with their tickets ought to know every single detail and all the minutiae of those tickets. After all, he does, so why is it such an effort for others.

As for me, I’m always astonished and delighted when I ask a platform guard which train I need and they actually know it without looking it up!

Not everyone has the prodigious memory skills and sense of involvement that Bungle does when it comes to trains and timetables. I can’t even remember details of my own - albeit irregular - journeys. And even if some employees can and do have these skills, it’s not possible for the train companies to ensure that all their employee staff do. Can you imagine if they only employed folk with encyclopaedic understanding of the railways?

 

[krtek a houby]

Nuances? Do you even have a clue about what you are taling about? If rembering that one simple thing.... A simple thing that is a FUNDEMATAL aspect of tickets.......if too hard she should be sweeping floors and not on the gate line. Why do you people insist on making excuses?

How many customers do you reckon she'd deal with any given day, mind. Everybody gets it wrong once in a while.

 

[Spymaster]

I never posted about it here................................

So not only are you a troublemaking, nasty, evil, honker; you are also a bare faced liar!

 

[Bungle73]

That's not good enough. They should be able to recite any part to the letter on request, or face instant dismissal.

Explain to me what it so bloody difficult about it...............

 

[Bungle73]

How many customers do you reckon she'd deal with any given day, mind. Everybody gets it wrong once in a while.

What the hell does how many pax she's dealt with have to do with the price of fish? This wasn't "getting it wrong once in a while" it was making a MAJOR error regarding a simple and important and high profile part of ticket validity.

 

[krtek a houby]

What the hell does how many pax she's dealt with have to do with the price of fish? This wasn't "getting it wrong once in a while" it was making a MAJOR error regarding a simple and important and high profile part of ticket validity.

Well, at least the trauma has passed and everyone's moved on. Barring delays.

 

[bimble]

This thread is amazing .
May nothing worse ever happen to you, as my granny used to say.

 

[neonwilderness]

Explain to me what it so bloody difficult about it...............

Nothing, it's an entirely reasonable request. Maybe you look like a fare dodger.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Did I bring it up? NO!

Well how would we know about it unless you brought it up?

 

[Bungle73]

Well how would we know about it unless you brought it up?

Do you actually read the threads you reply to, or do you just tack on a reply regardless of what has been said before, and by whom?

 

[teuchter]

Bungle73 is correct - cross-London validity of national rail tickets really is ticketing 101 and anyone working on the tube should be completely familiar with it. It's the equivalent of bar staff not knowing what beer is.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Do you actually read the threads you reply to, or do you just tack on a reply regardless of what has been said before, and by whom?

It’s impossible for us to know about this without you drawing attention to it. Hence you brought it up.

 

[Bungle73]

It’s impossible for us to know about this without you drawing attention to it. Hence you brought it up.

Er no. The only thing I did was post about thinking I was banned, with a link the last thread I was involved in. It was other people who decided to go to town on it. I never mentioned anything else about it.

 

[Spymaster]

The only thing I did was post about thinking I was banned, with a link the last thread I was involved in.

So you did bring it up.

Liar.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Er no. The only thing I did was post about thinking I was banned, with a link the last thread I was involved in. It was other people who decided to go to town on it. I never mentioned anything else about it.

Well if you didn’t bring it up, who did?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Imagine working at Westminster tube station, so many politicos passing through daily, you’d imagine you’ll have met the biggest cunts the UK has to offer, then along comes someone with an X on their ticket...

 

[Orang Utan]

What the hell does how many pax she's dealt with have to do with the price of fish? This wasn't "getting it wrong once in a while" it was making a MAJOR error regarding a simple and important and high profile part of ticket validity.

Pax?

 

[Orang Utan]

I've already explained what happened a million times. Just go and read the thread at RailUK.

Got a link?

 

[Orang Utan]

Imagine working at Westminster tube station, so many politicos passing through daily, you’d imagine you’ll have met the biggest cunts the UK has to offer, then along comes someone with an X on their ticket...

Ah, the penny has dropped - I think we might be dealing with Andrew Mitchell here

 

[Spymaster]

Pax?

Wankers term for people.

 

[Orang Utan]

Wankers term for people.

I though it was latin for peace!

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Dx Diagnosis
Tx Treatment
ABx Antibiotics

Pax Passengers

I assumed, anyway.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I though it was latin for peace!

It is. Like when someone is tickling you to death and you’ll kill them if they don’t stop. Hollering PAX! at them avoids total war.

 

[Orang Utan]

It is. Like when someone is tickling you to death and you’ll kill them if they don’t stop. Hollering PAX! at them avoids total war.

Yeah, when we played tig at school, you couldn't be caught if you crossed fingers on both hands and said PAX or PAGS

 

[Orang Utan]

Dx Diagnosis
Tx Treatment
ABx Antibiotics

Pax Passengers

I assumed, anyway.

TX = transmission in the world of broadcasting.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Yeah, when we played tig at school, you couldn't be caught if you crossed fingers on both hands and said PAX or PAGS

We had no pax on tag games. Otherwise the It never got off It.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

TX = transmission in the world of broadcasting.

And Px is the patient.

I’m sure it’s a fairly common contraction in all trades and professions.

 

[nogojones]

Bungle73 is correct - cross-London validity of national rail tickets really is ticketing 101 and anyone working on the tube should be completely familiar with it. It's the equivalent of bar staff not knowing what beer is.

Maybe she just didn't give a fuck. I wouldn't if I worked there

 

[Bungle73]

Maybe she just didn't give a fuck. I wouldn't if I worked there

So you're trying to suggest that she deliberately set out to antagonise anybody that happened to came along, and that you would have done the same, are you.......?

 

[Spymaster]

So you're trying to suggest that she deliberately set out to antagonise anybody that happened to came along ...

I doubt it. She decided to antagonise you because you were a dick to her.