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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 17:00:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 17:24:55 GMT
And no trains at all tues, thurs and Friday to/from Brighton due to strikes. No Wish List at Royal Court for me  |
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Post by showgirl on Jan 7, 2017 19:05:56 GMT
And no trains at all tues, thurs and Friday to/from Brighton due to strikes. No Wish List at Royal Court for me No,Thursday is OK; strike days are Tues/Wed/Fri. But it is hard to keep track - no pun intended. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 19:30:11 GMT
And no trains at all tues, thurs and Friday to/from Brighton due to strikes. No Wish List at Royal Court for me No,Thursday is OK; strike days are Tues/Wed/Fri. But it is hard to keep track - no pun intended. Yes of course u are correct. I'm still on the side of the workers and thank god RC are good at swapping dates but this is getting really annoying |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 7, 2017 23:20:45 GMT
I am resigning myself to having to walk all the way from Kings Cross to Shaftesbury Avenue & back on Monday in order to see Showstopper. With heavy rain forecast. The things we do for theatre!
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2017 0:19:12 GMT
No,Thursday is OK; strike days are Tues/Wed/Fri. But it is hard to keep track - no pun intended. Yes of course u are correct. I'm still on the side of the workers and thank god RC are good at swapping dates but this is getting really annoying I'm still on the side of the workers too, you know those people who are trying to get to work, nurses and so on who get paid poorly compared to train drivers. |
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Post by d'James on Jan 8, 2017 1:40:08 GMT
The Tubes were up the creek for me anyway today. Whatever could go wrong did go wrong (ish).
Sadly, as with all these things, the government just sit back and watch as the strikers lose public support while they do nothing.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 8, 2017 5:41:56 GMT
Swings and roundabouts, of course - or a case of the proverbial ill wind: I can't be the only member who has received tantalising ticket offers, but valid only for tomorrow (Monday) evening, presumably because the strikes are preventing others attending or have led to cancellations. However, I too am one of those marooned beyond the pale!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 8:47:04 GMT
Yes of course u are correct. I'm still on the side of the workers and thank god RC are good at swapping dates but this is getting really annoying I'm still on the side of the workers too, you know those people who are trying to get to work, nurses and so on who get paid poorly compared to train drivers. So you're saying train drivers shouldn't strike because nurses get paid less than them? That's a bit daft |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 8:50:31 GMT
I'm still on the side of the workers too, you know those people who are trying to get to work, nurses and so on who get paid poorly compared to train drivers. So you're saying train drivers shouldn't strike because nurses get paid less than them? That's a bit daft And actually I doubt nurses can afford to go from Brighton to London for work |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 9:56:20 GMT
Don't bring up the "nurses don't strike" rhetoric, nurses *should* strike when the situation calls for it. Yes, a tube strike is a massive inconvenience for everyone, but THAT IS THE POINT.
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Post by Dan213 on Jan 9, 2017 16:34:40 GMT
Really think the RMT take the p*** to be honest. Seem to encourage strike action anywhere and everywhere nowadays..
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Post by alece10 on Jan 9, 2017 16:47:47 GMT
It took me 2 hours to get to work this morning and i had to set off at 6am to get to work at my usual 8am. A journey that takes 45 mins door to door on tube. Had to take 3 buses and the same home this evening.
It's all about station staff. The station staff at my tube station just sit in a little box playing with their phones, letting people jump the barrier without paying and when you ask them why they allow it you get told "it's not my job to stop them" At 7am every day when the station is so full that we queue in the street to get into the ticket hall there is never a single member of staff to be found. Funny that!!!
It's a great job. Excellent salary and benefits and you don't have to do anything. Sign me up.
Rant over.....
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 9, 2017 17:47:36 GMT
I'm on the train into London. If I get lost between Kings Cross & Shaftesbury Avenue & am never heard of again then it was nice knowing (most of!) you & at least I'll have died for a good cause: theatregoing!
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Post by stevej678 on Jan 9, 2017 18:32:47 GMT
#TubeStrikeAPlay is trending on Twitter.
Some of the suggestions include:
Taming of the Crew
The Importance of Being Early
A Ticket Inspector Calls
The Curious Incident of the Tube Arriving on Time
Waiting for God Only Knows How Long
Much A Queue About Nothing
She Stoops to Uber
The Rail Replacement Children
The TfL That Goes Wrong
View From A Bus
A bit of lighthearted relief amidst the queues and delays!
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 9, 2017 19:16:34 GMT
Made it to the theatre! I'm seeing Showstopper tonight. The likelihood of getting a show set on the Underground has got to be very high!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 20:11:41 GMT
It took me 2 hours to get to work this morning and i had to set off at 6am to get to work at my usual 8am. A journey that takes 45 mins door to door on tube. Had to take 3 buses and the same home this evening. It's all about station staff. The station staff at my tube station just sit in a little box playing with their phones, letting people jump the barrier without paying and when you ask them why they allow it you get told "it's not my job to stop them" At 7am every day when the station is so full that we queue in the street to get into the ticket hall there is never a single member of staff to be found. Funny that!!! It's a great job. Excellent salary and benefits and you don't have to do anything. Sign me up. Rant over..... I'm assuming ur being ironic? U do know they r striking coz of the fact there is no one there in the morning to help u? |
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Post by alece10 on Jan 9, 2017 20:47:11 GMT
It took me 2 hours to get to work this morning and i had to set off at 6am to get to work at my usual 8am. A journey that takes 45 mins door to door on tube. Had to take 3 buses and the same home this evening. It's all about station staff. The station staff at my tube station just sit in a little box playing with their phones, letting people jump the barrier without paying and when you ask them why they allow it you get told "it's not my job to stop them" At 7am every day when the station is so full that we queue in the street to get into the ticket hall there is never a single member of staff to be found. Funny that!!! It's a great job. Excellent salary and benefits and you don't have to do anything. Sign me up. Rant over..... I'm assuming ur being ironic? U do know they r striking coz of the fact there is no one there in the morning to help u? No I wasn't being ironic. They are there. Just hiding out of sight in the office. You can see them through the window. They just don't like dealing with the public. I'm sorry but I am not being sympathetic as they have very well paid jobs and they haven't lost them. Just had their job role changed. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 9, 2017 22:42:20 GMT
Proud to say I not only made it to the theatre but also got back to Kings Cross in 25 minutes afterwards, in time to get my usual post-Showstoppers train. Being anti modern unions, I'm pleased to have circumvented them & had the evening at the theatre I'd planned pre-strike.
I was wrong on Showstopper: no one suggested the underground & we got (another) show set in the White House. However Adam Meggido did get the biggest laugh of the evening when he dashed onstage as a security guard after Trump had been assassinated & said he was late because of a tube strike!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 0:21:25 GMT
It took me 2 hours to get to work this morning and i had to set off at 6am to get to work at my usual 8am. A journey that takes 45 mins door to door on tube. Had to take 3 buses and the same home this evening. It's all about station staff. The station staff at my tube station just sit in a little box playing with their phones, letting people jump the barrier without paying and when you ask them why they allow it you get told "it's not my job to stop them" At 7am every day when the station is so full that we queue in the street to get into the ticket hall there is never a single member of staff to be found. Funny that!!! It's a great job. Excellent salary and benefits and you don't have to do anything. Sign me up. Rant over..... I'm assuming ur being ironic? U do know they r striking coz of the fact there is no one there in the morning to help u? No, sorry, I have no sympathy with that at all. The only time I've ever seen station staff doing any work is in the morning when they're doing crowd control during rush hour. The rest of the time there are plenty of staff there, but they're just standing around chatting near the ticket barriers or in the offices and not appearing to do anything useful at all, like switching some of the gates at Liverpool Street so people can actually get in rather than watching us queue for one entrance barrier when there are 10 exit ones not being used at all... And that's besides the fact that it's incredibly hit and miss as to whether you get someone pleasant or downright rude, which in a customer-facing role just doesn't cut it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 9:22:04 GMT
I'm assuming ur being ironic? U do know they r striking coz of the fact there is no one there in the morning to help u? No I wasn't being ironic. They are there. Just hiding out of sight in the office. You can see them through the window. They just don't like dealing with the public. I'm sorry but I am not being sympathetic as they have very well paid jobs and they haven't lost them. Just had their job role changed. See you are getting confused with the train strikes. They are different from the tube strikes. 853 job have been cut from tubes recently and they admitted the other day they got rid of too many people and it's making the stations unsafe. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 9:23:59 GMT
I'm assuming ur being ironic? U do know they r striking coz of the fact there is no one there in the morning to help u? No, sorry, I have no sympathy with that at all. The only time I've ever seen station staff doing any work is in the morning when they're doing crowd control during rush hour. The rest of the time there are plenty of staff there, but they're just standing around chatting near the ticket barriers or in the offices and not appearing to do anything useful at all, like switching some of the gates at Liverpool Street so people can actually get in rather than watching us queue for one entrance barrier when there are 10 exit ones not being used at all... And that's besides the fact that it's incredibly hit and miss as to whether you get someone pleasant or downright rude, which in a customer-facing role just doesn't cut it. We should always have sympathy with our fellow workers. I very much doubt that the whole of London tube is populated by lazy people. The powers that be our desperate for us to continually turn on each other, rather turning on the true injustices |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 9:33:20 GMT
No, sorry, I have no sympathy with that at all. The only time I've ever seen station staff doing any work is in the morning when they're doing crowd control during rush hour. The rest of the time there are plenty of staff there, but they're just standing around chatting near the ticket barriers or in the offices and not appearing to do anything useful at all, like switching some of the gates at Liverpool Street so people can actually get in rather than watching us queue for one entrance barrier when there are 10 exit ones not being used at all... And that's besides the fact that it's incredibly hit and miss as to whether you get someone pleasant or downright rude, which in a customer-facing role just doesn't cut it. We should always have sympathy with our fellow workers. I very much doubt that the whole of London tube is populated by lazy people. The powers that be our desperate for us to continually turn on each other, rather turning on the true injusticesAnd that's one of the most important things to remember here, isn't it? If we're angry with striking workers, that's more immediate to us than outrageous fare increases and lack of regulation and unfair/dangerous working conditions etc. It benefits the people who have the least to lose and the most in the bank to push the narrative of lazy greedy workers, and even if one person's lived experience may reflect this (by the way we're all familiar with confirmation bias, right?), that doesn't mean it holds true across the entire city. We sort of owe it to literally everyone to exercise sympathy, empathy, compassion, and understanding, because those are the only things we have that the ruling classes don't, and they're kind of important to basic humanity. |
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Post by profquatermass on Jan 10, 2017 12:31:53 GMT
Proud to say I not only made it to the theatre but also got back to Kings Cross in 25 minutes afterwards, in time to get my usual post-Showstoppers train. Being anti modern unions, I'm pleased to have circumvented them & had the evening at the theatre I'd planned pre-strike. I take it you don't accept any of the benefits unions have won for you such as paid holiday or sick pay? Or perhaps you approve of the old unions who won them, not the nasty modern unions who are representing today's workers |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 13:18:22 GMT
I think we're entitled to be cynical, given that so many previous strikes about 'safety' have been resolved by staff getting extra money in their pockets each month. Funny that.
Even Sadiq Khan has said that the offer on the table from TFL is a good one and the unions should be negotiating, not striking.
Sadly (and I speak as a previous member of an unrelated union), there are always militant elements whose sole aim in life is to hurt the bosses/government, and they'll take every opportunity they get to try it. (Looking at the developing, coordinating pattern of strikes across sectors/regions, it looks like that's exactly what they're doing now.)
The sooner they bring in a law stating that a vote for strike action must be made by the majority of union members, the better. That way, less people will suffer the consequences of pointless strikes (service users and non-militant union members alike).
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