Friday, December 01, 2006

Meltdown!!!!!

When will the sheep that London Underground charges for not providing a viable transport service start rebelling? This week I have had completely cancelled services on Wednesday, a TWENTY minute wait for a circle line train on thursday in the RUSH hour and a FIFTEEN minute wait in the rain for a district line train today.

Wednesdays meltdown was due to cheating, overpaid signal staff. They were told to stop fiddling their overtime by management so in a fit of pique they decided not to do any and bought the whole network to a standstill. These cheating scum earn 38k a year and when caught fiddling and warned they bring London to its knees. Come on you sheep!!!!! start complaining. Why one asks are there any such thing as signalmen when this should all be computerised anyway as it is on Underground systems around the world that actually work. The answer is UNIONS and protectionism. By the way when trains are delayed due to signal failure you dont see the fuckers out with flags and torches to keep the service running do you?

How can a CIRCLE line train be twenty minutes late? So they go round in a circle (a bit like our 1st toy train set. There must have been only 2 or 3 on the circle line then.

Once again failure to perform, failure to give a fuck. I bet they wont fail to put the prices up though come January.

Its amazing that this must be the only business in the world along with the railways and government to charge exhorbitant prices to their customers and increase prices each year then provide a WORSE service. I must be in the wrong game.

I am going to get some stickers and flyers printed and get them out to try to get the sheep (public) to act on this disgusting situation. Some of the ways we can revolt are.

Refuse to pay en masse and just force our way through the barriers.
Hold trains up and not let them leave when they do finally arrive.
Write letters of complaint everyday to LU and copy the Evening Standard and me. I will coordinate a campaign if I get support.

Lets put pressure on. We deserve more. If you dont act now you deserve what you get. SHIT!!!

4 Comments:

At 9:27 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You sound like a barrel of laughs. I just read your piece from January where you actually name the member of gateline staff who - shock horror - wouldn't let you through without a ticket when only one ticket window was open because you didn't want to queue up like everyone else and miss 'your train'. So you moan at staff not doing their job correctly and also those that do, like this guy - and then post their name on the internet (albeit on a site with less traffic than a desert island). What a jerk.

Try and chill out a bit - renew your oyster card online, leave an extra 10 minutes to get to work. You will actually be surprised to find that the tube gets you to work on time most days. You'll still have an uncomfortable journey in the peak but that's how it is in an overpopulated city. You might even start to notice the many LU staff who are hard-working and decent and give them a bit of credit. And you might decide this blog is not really helping your mental health.

 
At 8:37 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

He didnt let you through? Good, you sound like a sad old git! Get a life! Some staff are crap, but most give a stuff, including me. To publish someone's name without their permission is sheer malice. Hope you get caught in the ticket barriers next time.

Read some of your other blogs, you just hate the tube dont you? Well dont use it then. Staff hate having to deal with people like you, our job would be a joy if we didnt have to deal with petty boring people like you.

 
At 10:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Indeed what right has a long suffering customer to complain about a service that is:
1)Overpriced
2)Filthy
3)Overcrowded
4)Manned by rude and unhelpful staff
5)Utterly unreliable

Well said mate this riduculous state of affairs will continue until people rebel and make it clear they're justnot going to pay for this rubbish anymore.

 
At 2:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Staff hate having to deal with people like you, our job would be a joy if we didnt have to deal with petty boring people like you."
NO - you just hate dealing with people full stop! In fact you wish you got paid for not having to do anything at all....!!! Welcome to the real world, chum! It doesn't work like that. Many of us are absolutely fed up at the appalling standard of service and feel as if we are banging our heads against a brick wall. The only reason you people get away with providing a rubbish service is that there are so many "sheep" who meekly sit there and let you get away with it! Well some of us are very very angry.

 

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