Train companies are so much drowned in criticism and hatred I suspect they don't much care any more what passengers think. From their point of view they may say 'passengers are never happy about anything, so we gave up bothering about them years ago'. Passengers seem to be another business variable, weighing ticket income against delay repay with no regard to their humanity or reality.
Train companies are so much drowned in criticism and hatred I suspect they don't much care any more what passengers think. From their point of view they may say 'passengers are never happy about anything, so we gave up bothering about them years ago'. Passengers seem to be another business variable, weighing ticket income against delay repay with no regard to their humanity or reality.
Which day of which year was it when they did care about passengers.
Also, the staff might be "drowned in criticism and hatred", but I doubt the people pocketing our cash are even aware of it. They certainly aren't bothered by it.
The active contempt for the train passenger starts at the top. This cynical fetid carcass of a tory party, retains the walking carcinoma that is Chris Grayling as transport minister. He blamed the unions' pay demands for the New Year's fare increase. There is obviously a tenuous connection but the odious cur just took the opportunity to tell another lie to suit his paymasters' loathsome agenda, while sneering at the rest of us. May he be flayed alive, rolled in salt and subjected to a loop of Keane, Coldplay and Adele for a decade at least.
The active contempt for the train passenger starts at the top. This cynical fetid carcass of a tory party, retains the walking carcinoma that is Chris Grayling as transport minister. He blamed the unions' pay demands for the New Year's fare increase. There is obviously a tenuous connection but the odious cur just took the opportunity to tell another lie to suit his paymasters' loathsome agenda, while sneering at the rest of us. May he be flayed alive, rolled in salt and subjected to a loop of Keane, Coldplay and Adele for a decade at least.
Too soft.
Taken to a deserted hangar, hung naked upside down from a meat hook and flailed with a cat o'nine tail with one inch nails at the end which have been dipped in battery acid.
Failing that, the cold end of a red hot poker up his jacksee, and watch him burn his hands taking it out.
The active contempt for the train passenger starts at the top. This cynical fetid carcass of a tory party, retains the walking carcinoma that is Chris Grayling as transport minister. He blamed the unions' pay demands for the New Year's fare increase. There is obviously a tenuous connection but the odious cur just took the opportunity to tell another lie to suit his paymasters' loathsome agenda, while sneering at the rest of us. May he be flayed alive, rolled in salt and subjected to a loop of Keane, Coldplay and Adele for a decade at least.
I'm glad it wasn't just me that spat their brew out at him saying the fare increases were to pay for workers pay rises whilst completely neglecting to mention the enormous bonuses paid to the senior horse fuckers and the not insignificant 180 odd million paid out to shareholders. I don't begrudge shareholders their dividends but not when the business they have shares in underperforms so astonishingly
First day back at work yesterday. Monthly fare up 3%, train home cancelled. No trains to London before 10.00 this morning. Utter bastards
They do this every year mate. Put the fares up and then celebrate by being extra shit when everyone comes back to work after Christmas. 5 trains out of 5 delayed since Wednesday for, tossers.
That feckless halfwit Chris Grayling has extended their franchise again, until June (it should have expired last June), while he frantically hunts around inside his head for a part of his brain that isn't dominated by the incompetence gene. I would love to introduce his testicles to my belt sander.
First day back at work yesterday. Monthly fare up 3%, train home cancelled. No trains to London before 10.00 this morning. Utter bastards
They do this every year mate. Put the fares up and then celebrate by being extra shit when everyone comes back to work after Christmas. 5 trains out of 5 delayed since Wednesday for, tossers.
That feckless halfwit Chris Grayling has extended their franchise again, until June (it should have expired last June), while he frantically hunts around inside his head for a part of his brain that isn't dominated by the incompetence gene. I would love to introduce his testicles to my belt sander.
You're going soft, Grayling doesn't have even half a wit.
What? That cnut must have the biggest balls in Christendom to have stuck it out sneering and playing us all for chumps for so long. Grayling as a government minister is right up there with Meire as a football executive.
Abysmal "service" again this morning. 7 journeys out of 7 disrupted journeys since Christmas. Tossers.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
Abysmal "service" again this morning. 7 journeys out of 7 disrupted journeys since Christmas. Tossers.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
Abysmal "service" again this morning. 7 journeys out of 7 disrupted journeys since Christmas. Tossers.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
Abysmal "service" again this morning. 7 journeys out of 7 disrupted journeys since Christmas. Tossers.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
Abysmal "service" again this morning. 7 journeys out of 7 disrupted journeys since Christmas. Tossers.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
If you travel on High Speed they are all messed up today. Expect lots of miserable people moaning about paying loads and travelling on a shit service - above and beyond the usual cattle wagon commuters!
Yep happy delay day everyone. Bexleybeath line busted from Cannon Street due to some lewisham signal issues.
So I had one cancelled and one delayed train which has meant.....I went to the all bar one opposite Cannon Street and had a drink rather than going straight home and having a day off the booze.
My Lewisham bound train from Charing Cross was half way to Lewisham tonight when the driver tells us he's now going via Greenwich, and, trying to be helpful presumably, tells us that "at Lewisham you'll be able to get a DLR service to Lewisham". We then stop at deptford and tells us to change here for the DLR to Lewisham. Lots of people get off never to be seen again. Train continues to Greenwich and some people get off. I was hoping fast to Charlton next to be back on route and make up some time, but we stop at Maze Hill for no apparent reason and bizarrely a lady gets off, same again at Westcombe park, a chap gets off. This is odd as they each got on a train going somewhere else. Surely no-ones ordinary commute is Charing Cross to Westcombe park or Maze Have via Lewisham. Maybe they were chancers whose just got lucky in the chaos..
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Passengers seem to be another business variable, weighing ticket income against delay repay with no regard to their humanity or reality.
Contract is with the government and Network Rail to provide what is laid down in the franchise agreement. No real reason to bother about passengers.
Also, the staff might be "drowned in criticism and hatred", but I doubt the people pocketing our cash are even aware of it. They certainly aren't bothered by it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46731749
Taken to a deserted hangar, hung naked upside down from a meat hook and flailed with a cat o'nine tail with one inch nails at the end which have been dipped in battery acid.
Failing that, the cold end of a red hot poker up his jacksee, and watch him burn his hands taking it out.
That feckless halfwit Chris Grayling has extended their franchise again, until June (it should have expired last June), while he frantically hunts around inside his head for a part of his brain that isn't dominated by the incompetence gene. I would love to introduce his testicles to my belt sander.
I was expecting that though. This morning's main irritation so far is a fellow passenger. She's not really done that much wrong but it's pissed me off anyway. Stupid haircut, excessive amount of luggage to be carrying on a rush hour service, so she'd already rubbed me up the wrong way before I witnessed her googling "how long does a tea light candle stay light for". Firstly, she misspelled literally every word except "a" so it took her an absolute age to type it. Secondly, it's an excessively banal thing to be looking up. If you're going to Google random stuff then look up something interesting like "how long would it take a shoal of piranhas to maul the Minister for Transport to the bone?". Finally, it's "stay lit", and should have a question mark at the end - why can't anyone write properly anymore?!
Early candidate from South Eastern Trains for 2019 Didn't Happen of the Year Awards:
So are we to take 'no more train fare increases' as a Labour election promise?
Southeastern just announced signal problems at Lewisham again.
So I had one cancelled and one delayed train which has meant.....I went to the all bar one opposite Cannon Street and had a drink rather than going straight home and having a day off the booze.
I’ll send the doctors bill to Southeastern.
Train continues to Greenwich and some people get off. I was hoping fast to Charlton next to be back on route and make up some time, but we stop at Maze Hill for no apparent reason and bizarrely a lady gets off, same again at Westcombe park, a chap gets off. This is odd as they each got on a train going somewhere else. Surely no-ones ordinary commute is Charing Cross to Westcombe park or Maze Have via Lewisham. Maybe they were chancers whose just got lucky in the chaos..
Easier maybe from Greenwich though tbf been sold a pup by the driver there.