An exceptionally aggravating experience at Hampstead station on Saturday night prompted me to write to TFL this morning, which reminded me of another email I sent TFL in February but never got around to publish. I had just started making a list of funny excuses for line and station closures and wanted more information about the "trespasser on the train" excuse. So here it goes:
Sent: 17 February 2009 09:13
To: enquiry.tube; Enquire (TfL)
Subject: Trespassers
Dear TFL,
I have for some time been somewhat puzzled and intrigued by this
announcement you sometimes here on the tube: x line is suspended/delayed
due to a trespasser on the train. I'm not even sure I am hearing this
correctly - it seems so strange. Could you please explain what a train
trespasser actually is? Is it simply someone with out a ticket? And how
come it's such a security risk you have to suspend a line?
Much grateful for a reply.
Kind Regards
Little Miss Sunshine
dateSat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM
subjectRE: Trespassers Our ref: 1002993758
Our ref: 1002993758
Date: 28.02.2009
Dear Little Miss Sunshine
Thank you for your email regarding our terminology. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you. The actual term is 'tresspasser on track', This means an unauthorised person is on the tracks where trains run. This is a serious safety concern as the person could be struck by a train, as such the traction current (electricity) must be switched off in that section of the line and services suspended until the person is removed.
I hope I have answered your question. Please contact me again if you need any help in the future.
Yours sincerely,
Angharad Jennings-Slater
Customer Service Advisor
Customer Service Centre
As you can see the actual "excuse" is fair enough, it is only when it is used by illiterate tube workers that it becomes confusing.
I shall publish my latest email and accompanying story as soon as I receive the reply from the Customer Service Centre!
Happy tubing!
Monday 29 June 2009
Wednesday 10 June 2009
Bob Crow - you make me sick.
Admittedly I do not know the ins and outs of the new pay packages and job cuts that the TFL are offering their staff, and I am the first to claim that TFL is a poorly run company and any financial cuts needed are probably down to mismanagement and bad budget planning.
However someone needs to give Bob Crow a damn reality check. A station supervisor earns £35,000-£39,000, while a tube driver's starting salary is just over £40,000, according to TfL, and a station assistant can start on £29,000.
What the fuck are you arguing about?! Your union members are well paid and well protected. The rest of us – who not only have to travel on the piss poor and often rude service your member provide to get us to our, in comparison, badly paid jobs – don’t have the option to cry about the economic crisis or any job cuts our companies have to make.
IT’S CALLED CAPITALISM AND COMPETITION YOU COMMUNIST ASSHOLE! It’s a bit too late to start a communist revolution right now.
So get to work you lazy cunts and stop causing us hard working, honest and poorly paid workers more misery than you already are.
I suggest we all start harassing RMT worker on the tube – start asking if they are members and harass the hell out of them. Embarrass them by letting them know they are spoilt fuckwits who should try living in the real world where you don’t have big bad communist papa to cry to when you’re up for consultation and redundancy.
RMT members are fucking idiots and should all be sacked - clearly they are not only illiterate and uneducated they have no sense of work ethic or loyalty to the company which they work for.
However someone needs to give Bob Crow a damn reality check. A station supervisor earns £35,000-£39,000, while a tube driver's starting salary is just over £40,000, according to TfL, and a station assistant can start on £29,000.
What the fuck are you arguing about?! Your union members are well paid and well protected. The rest of us – who not only have to travel on the piss poor and often rude service your member provide to get us to our, in comparison, badly paid jobs – don’t have the option to cry about the economic crisis or any job cuts our companies have to make.
IT’S CALLED CAPITALISM AND COMPETITION YOU COMMUNIST ASSHOLE! It’s a bit too late to start a communist revolution right now.
So get to work you lazy cunts and stop causing us hard working, honest and poorly paid workers more misery than you already are.
I suggest we all start harassing RMT worker on the tube – start asking if they are members and harass the hell out of them. Embarrass them by letting them know they are spoilt fuckwits who should try living in the real world where you don’t have big bad communist papa to cry to when you’re up for consultation and redundancy.
RMT members are fucking idiots and should all be sacked - clearly they are not only illiterate and uneducated they have no sense of work ethic or loyalty to the company which they work for.
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