Took me an hour from Bromley South to Victoria this morning. Going to be late.
This is the 5th time I've commuted in the past week, after some time off, and already I've decided I can't renew this contract in Jan, and that I don't see how I'm going to put up with it for another 10 weeks.
I genuinely can't do every morning getting pissed off, taking an hour to do a 25 min journey and fucking up the rest of my journey via tube. Sets the entire day up on a negative. I honestly don't know how everyone deals with it, I have in the past but.. It's just awful.
Im dreading actual bad weather, because it's currently very mild.
Took me an hour from Bromley South to Victoria this morning. Going to be late.
This is the 5th time I've commuted in the past week, after some time off, and already I've decided I can't renew this contract in Jan, and that I don't see how I'm going to put up with it for another 10 weeks.
I genuinely can't do every morning getting pissed off, taking an hour to do a 25 min journey and fucking up the rest of my journey via tube. Sets the entire day up on a negative. I honestly don't know how everyone deals with it, I have in the past but.. It's just awful.
Im dreading actual bad weather, because it's currently very mild.
I've got an Oyster but I pay for an annual zone 2-5 on it. I pay TFL for it. Today, my usual train didn't stop at New Cross (zone 2) and it went straight through to London Bridge (zone 1).
Who compensates me for the Z1 charge on my Oyster. TFL or South Eastern? I've claimed the 30 min delay from South Eastern but that wont cover the amount that I got forced to pay for getting off at London Bridge.
I've got an Oyster but I pay for an annual zone 2-5 on it. I pay TFL for it. Today, my usual train didn't stop at New Cross (zone 2) and it went straight through to London Bridge (zone 1).
Who compensates me for the Z1 charge on my Oyster. TFL or South Eastern? I've claimed the 30 min delay from South Eastern but that wont cover the amount that I got forced to pay for getting off at London Bridge.
Ring tfl to ask them. They manage the refunds. Number on back of oyster card I think. They're usually pretty good.
Complete shambles at dartford. Trying to get to London City Airport to catch a plane. Normally a piece of cake. Saw what was going on and left about an hour before I intended to (and im one of thise people who is always miles early). Been stood at dartford station for half an hour. Promised a train in another ten minutes but goodness knows how long it will take to woolwich Arsenal. Good job I'm not flying till two.
I woke up far too hungover to cycle to work. After a quick visit to all my usual incognito broswer websites I loaded up charltonlife, noticed new posts in this thread, and instantly knew that trains would be shite today. Didn't even bother checking the train times, just went and got the bus to North Greenwich and got the underground in instead.
Lesson learnt - doing tequilas in a pool club in Peckham at 1am on a school night is not worth it when south eastern are your train service provider.
Got on the 7:38 from woolwich to cannon st this am. Arrived just before 9, shambolic.
Although the journey was brightened up when an already irate bloke took a phone call from his missus. He used said phone call to exclaim his hatred for London and also used the call to proclaim his journey was worsened by the two crying children. At one point he held his phone away from his ear and said 'just listen to them' . Needless to say a few passengers had some choice words with this numpty.
Lesson learnt - doing tequilas in a pool club in Peckham at 1am on a school night is not worth it when south eastern are your train service provider.
Canavan's I presume? Love that place. The bloke who takes your money when you book a pool table is really militant. Last time I was in there he came over to let us know that we had 2 minutes of our booking left. We were asking him if we could extend it for another half an hour or so, during the course of him answering and us deliberating he kept breaking off mid sentence - "70 seconds remaining.....45 seconds remaining".
Lesson learnt - doing tequilas in a pool club in Peckham at 1am on a school night is not worth it when south eastern are your train service provider.
Canavan's I presume? Love that place. The bloke who takes your money when you book a pool table is really militant. Last time I was in there he came over to let us know that we had 2 minutes of our booking left. We were asking him if we could extend it for another half an hour or so, during the course of him answering and us deliberating he kept breaking off mid sentence - "70 seconds remaining.....45 seconds remaining".
LOL, I thought by "pool club" he meant something along the lines of aquarium not spiders!
Lesson learnt - doing tequilas in a pool club in Peckham at 1am on a school night is not worth it when south eastern are your train service provider.
Canavan's I presume? Love that place. The bloke who takes your money when you book a pool table is really militant. Last time I was in there he came over to let us know that we had 2 minutes of our booking left. We were asking him if we could extend it for another half an hour or so, during the course of him answering and us deliberating he kept breaking off mid sentence - "70 seconds remaining.....45 seconds remaining".
Yep that is correct, really interesting mix of the old and new of Peckham. Open to 4am every night as well!
Amended Timetable until the end of the week due to the adverse weather!!
"Poor rail conditions, caused by the autumnal weather, have been forecast for this week."
Autumnal weather conditions, in Autumn - last thing I was expecting, can hardly blame them for not having made any proper plans. It must be at least a year since Autumn last occurred and shocked everyone by being generally Autumnal.
Nevermind, it'll be Winter soon so everything should be fine unless we get really unlucky and there's a freak bout of Wintery weather.
This morning I drove to Lee at 6.15 (so my car was positioned well for tonight as have an appointment in chislehurst at 7pm and can't rely on the trains to get me there on time) got the 6.53 which was on time and got to work before merry hell with the trains kicked off. no water in our building though so no tea and no toilet facilities. have to use our other building next door. No idea if I'll be able to get back to my car on time if they're still messed up! argh!!
Took me an hour from Bromley South to Victoria this morning. Going to be late.
This is the 5th time I've commuted in the past week, after some time off, and already I've decided I can't renew this contract in Jan, and that I don't see how I'm going to put up with it for another 10 weeks.
I genuinely can't do every morning getting pissed off, taking an hour to do a 25 min journey and fucking up the rest of my journey via tube. Sets the entire day up on a negative. I honestly don't know how everyone deals with it, I have in the past but.. It's just awful.
Im dreading actual bad weather, because it's currently very mild.
I deal with it by cycling. If you're reasonably fit and your commute is 15 miles or less it's a no brainer to me.
Terrible congestion at my place today. I was working from home this morning and had to be part of a conference call at 09.00. I came out of the bathroom after a shower and spotted my wife sitting in the chair in front of our PC. I said "Oh my god darling, you will have to move I need to dial into a conference call in two minutes" to which she replied. "no worries I am done now"
Terrible congestion at my place today. I was working from home this morning and had to be part of a conference call at 09.00. I came out of the bathroom after a shower and spotted my wife sitting in the chair in front of our PC. I said "Oh my god darling, you will have to move I need to dial into a conference call in two minutes" to which she replied. "no worries I am done now"
Feck me that was close
What you dont realise is she was already on the Conference Call and was doing a strip tease for everyone
Have I mentioned I ditched my gold card and upgraded to a yearly Oyster season ticket... the extra money each month is well worth it. Straight to the dlr each morning for me.
But obviously that means I get on and off at Woolwich so I shouldn't be too smug!
Terrible congestion at my place today. I was working from home this morning and had to be part of a conference call at 09.00. I came out of the bathroom after a shower and spotted my wife sitting in the chair in front of our PC. I said "Oh my god darling, you will have to move I need to dial into a conference call in two minutes" to which she replied. "no worries I am done now"
Feck me that was close
What you dont realise is she was already on the Conference Call and was doing a strip tease for everyone
Glad I can join in the moan fest on this thread now I've moved. Train was cancelled at Cannon Street so went to Bank to get DLR as did a lot of other people. Also didn't help they suspended Waterloo and City line. I did quite enjoy the seethe levels of everyone there, a fair few blood pressure levels had definitely gone dangerously high.
Goodness me, who would have thought it. Deciduous trees over the track, every year after the first cold snap and a bit of wind we seem to have this problem.
The solution must be to cut them all down and plant conifers.
Terrible congestion at my place today. I was working from home this morning and had to be part of a conference call at 09.00. I came out of the bathroom after a shower and spotted my wife sitting in the chair in front of our PC. I said "Oh my god darling, you will have to move I need to dial into a conference call in two minutes" to which she replied. "no worries I am done now"
Feck me that was close
What you dont realise is she was already on the Conference Call and was doing a strip tease for everyone
That was the web cam show last night
Nothing to do with South Eastern but my boss relayed a story to a client yesterday about a conference call we had done a couple of months ago, for all our managers around the country who look after law firms. We had external speakers in with us in London and set up a webex, so the guys around the country could follow the slides being used.
10 minutes in - at nearly 10.30am!! - and the economist from Deloitte is speaking, when a name pops up on screen to say "Joe Smith" is joining the conference.
All a bit confusing in the room as we had set it up NOT to interrupt the session like that.
We realised why, as the idiot activated his webcam by mistake and the speakers & all his colleagues across the country got to see "Joe" in bed, no top on, thankfully duvet up to his waist & oblivious to the fact he was on screen.
His face as he received several emails from colleagues to let him know he was the star of the show was a picture as he scrambled to turn his laptop off.
Lazy twonk has been advised to think seriously about another job!!
Terrible congestion at my place today. I was working from home this morning and had to be part of a conference call at 09.00. I came out of the bathroom after a shower and spotted my wife sitting in the chair in front of our PC. I said "Oh my god darling, you will have to move I need to dial into a conference call in two minutes" to which she replied. "no worries I am done now"
Feck me that was close
What you dont realise is she was already on the Conference Call and was doing a strip tease for everyone
That was the web cam show last night
Nothing to do with South Eastern but my boss relayed a story to a client yesterday about a conference call we had done a couple of months ago, for all our managers around the country who look after law firms. We had external speakers in with us in London and set up a webex, so the guys around the country could follow the slides being used.
10 minutes in - at nearly 10.30am!! - and the economist from Deloitte is speaking, when a name pops up on screen to say "Joe Smith" is joining the conference.
All a bit confusing in the room as we had set it up NOT to interrupt the session like that.
We realised why, as the idiot activated his webcam by mistake and the speakers & all his colleagues across the country got to see "Joe" in bed, no top on, thankfully duvet up to his waist & oblivious to the fact he was on screen.
His face as he received several emails from colleagues to let him know he was the star of the show was a picture as he scrambled to turn his laptop off.
Lazy twonk has been advised to think seriously about another job!!
Ha, ha well it is funny you mention that because today was my first conference call from home. When I came out the shower I put some PJ's on that I lay around in and made myself a coffee ready to dial in. So there I was sitting there in my M&S lounge ware sipping a double espresso chatting to these guys sat in a posh Belgravia office.
At one point I did think to myself "if only they could see me now"
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This is the 5th time I've commuted in the past week, after some time off, and already I've decided I can't renew this contract in Jan, and that I don't see how I'm going to put up with it for another 10 weeks.
I genuinely can't do every morning getting pissed off, taking an hour to do a 25 min journey and fucking up the rest of my journey via tube. Sets the entire day up on a negative. I honestly don't know how everyone deals with it, I have in the past but.. It's just awful.
Im dreading actual bad weather, because it's currently very mild.
I've got an Oyster but I pay for an annual zone 2-5 on it. I pay TFL for it.
Today, my usual train didn't stop at New Cross (zone 2) and it went straight through to London Bridge (zone 1).
Who compensates me for the Z1 charge on my Oyster. TFL or South Eastern?
I've claimed the 30 min delay from South Eastern but that wont cover the amount that I got forced to pay for getting off at London Bridge.
Lesson learnt - doing tequilas in a pool club in Peckham at 1am on a school night is not worth it when south eastern are your train service provider.
Arrived just before 9, shambolic.
Although the journey was brightened up when an already irate bloke took a phone call from his missus.
He used said phone call to exclaim his hatred for London and also used the call to proclaim his journey was worsened by the two crying children. At one point he held his phone away from his ear and said 'just listen to them' .
Needless to say a few passengers had some choice words with this numpty.
Amended Timetable until the end of the week due to the adverse weather!!
Autumnal weather conditions, in Autumn - last thing I was expecting, can hardly blame them for not having made any proper plans. It must be at least a year since Autumn last occurred and shocked everyone by being generally Autumnal.
Nevermind, it'll be Winter soon so everything should be fine unless we get really unlucky and there's a freak bout of Wintery weather.
Tossers.
Feck me that was close
Morning and evening services won't change. Just during the daytime the brown leaves will cause absolute carnage apparently.
Complete and utter wank stains.
In the south-east it's been mild this week, some rain (expected) and a bit windy.
So how has this resulted in 'poor rail conditions'?
But obviously that means I get on and off at Woolwich so I shouldn't be too smug!
Goodness me, who would have thought it. Deciduous trees over the track, every year after the first cold snap and a bit of wind we seem to have this problem.
The solution must be to cut them all down and plant conifers.
10 minutes in - at nearly 10.30am!! - and the economist from Deloitte is speaking, when a name pops up on screen to say "Joe Smith" is joining the conference.
All a bit confusing in the room as we had set it up NOT to interrupt the session like that.
We realised why, as the idiot activated his webcam by mistake and the speakers & all his colleagues across the country got to see "Joe" in bed, no top on, thankfully duvet up to his waist & oblivious to the fact he was on screen.
His face as he received several emails from colleagues to let him know he was the star of the show was a picture as he scrambled to turn his laptop off.
Lazy twonk has been advised to think seriously about another job!!
At one point I did think to myself "if only they could see me now"
How they laughed after the call.