I don't depend on south eastern but always see the blue jackets in clusters of three or four ignoring people and chatting away to each other at London Bridge, a developing station where you need the most help and information.
Engineering works, emergency engineering works, over running engineering works, signal failure and an 'operational' incident.
I think the last one relates to not enough staff turning up for work.
Years ago under BR we told it as it was when announcing delays like "points failure" "signal failure" or "broken rail" etc. As soon as it became all different private companies (especially the then railtrack) got upset for two reasons, firstly it would make people think that the tracks and signals were not maintained, and secondly because they announcements meant it was easy to see who was to blame ie railtrack for track problems. So, we were all instructed to say "operational difficulties" which now seems to have changed into "operational incidents"
Went up London today and continued to see a load of blue jackets seemingly doing nothing at all. Not a bad job to have, you could get paid to earpiece improving podcasts and then qualify as a lawyer.
Went up London today and continued to see a load of blue jackets seemingly doing nothing at all. Not a bad job to have, you could get paid to earpiece improving podcasts and then qualify as a lawyer.
Lawyers?? You haven’t had much interaction with SE employees have you mate.
Got to Orpington tonight to find the first train back to Petts Wood had left 90 seconds EARLY. FFS!
Nothing on Earth pisses me off quite like that. When I lived in Reigate I used to get the nodding donkey service one stop up the line to Redhill. Invariably at least three times a week you'd see the cunting Victoria train pulling away from the platform 30 seconds early as the Reigate train arrived and disgorged its horde of fellow masochists, leaving them marooned on the platform hurling stuff at it like those fellas in the Indiana Jones film
Went up London today and continued to see a load of blue jackets seemingly doing nothing at all. Not a bad job to have, you could get paid to earpiece improving podcasts and then qualify as a lawyer.
Lawyers?? You haven’t had much interaction with SE employees have you mate.
LOL well no, they don't seem to welcome any interaction at all. Do the blue jackets have an actual function, or are they employed to get staffing levels to the right number?
Went up London today and continued to see a load of blue jackets seemingly doing nothing at all. Not a bad job to have, you could get paid to earpiece improving podcasts and then qualify as a lawyer.
Lawyers?? You haven’t had much interaction with SE employees have you mate.
"Christmas is coming.... blah blah" says some condescending voice on the platforms and the trains. How comes this announcer is loud and clear? And any driver's voice a muffled whisper? Another Southeastern mystery!
We are going to fuck yeh over all over Christmas as we have all year and suck it up because if we tell you loud enough and early enough your come back is how big mate? Non-existent.
Multiple swear words a la Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, jerrry sadowitz, et al.
My train service kidnapped people this morning! It was meant to stop at stations along Woolwich line, but as it was running late (as usual!) it was decided to not stop it after Woolwich Arsenal - fine if you got on at Dartford but they didn't bother to announce the change after that, so plenty of people ended up at Cannon Street instead of Greenwich etc.
My train service kidnapped people this morning! It was meant to stop at stations along Woolwich line, but as it was running late (as usual!) it was decided to not stop it after Woolwich Arsenal - fine if you got on at Dartford but they didn't bother to announce the change after that, so plenty of people ended up at Cannon Street instead of Greenwich etc.
Did you have your earphones in when the muffled announcement came through? Sounds like an operational incident, should've pulled the chord at Greenwich and climbed out the window
My train service kidnapped people this morning! It was meant to stop at stations along Woolwich line, but as it was running late (as usual!) it was decided to not stop it after Woolwich Arsenal - fine if you got on at Dartford but they didn't bother to announce the change after that, so plenty of people ended up at Cannon Street instead of Greenwich etc.
Did you have your earphones in when the muffled announcement came through? Sounds like an operational incident, should've pulled the chord at Greenwich and climbed out the window
I was going to Cannon Street anyway so it didn't bother me. I would love to see someone attempting to climb out of a window of a Southeastern train though!
My train service kidnapped people this morning! It was meant to stop at stations along Woolwich line, but as it was running late (as usual!) it was decided to not stop it after Woolwich Arsenal - fine if you got on at Dartford but they didn't bother to announce the change after that, so plenty of people ended up at Cannon Street instead of Greenwich etc.
Did you have your earphones in when the muffled announcement came through? Sounds like an operational incident, should've pulled the chord at Greenwich and climbed out the window
I was going to Cannon Street anyway so it didn't bother me. I would love to see someone attempting to climb out of a window of a Southeastern train though!
You would have to be almost reptile like to do that, sort of like a CEO or the owner of a football club.
Get a nice early dart from work ready for Christmas, get to the station and it's all delays and cancellations. No prizes for guessing what the problem was.
How many commuters would swap their south eastern experience for a 45 minute car journey to tunbridge wells for the same salary? I have 24hrs left to decide!
Get a nice early dart from work ready for Christmas, get to the station and it's all delays and cancellations. No prizes for guessing what the problem was.
They were a disgrace this morning as well, took me until 2 o'clock this afternoon to unclench my fists and ungrit my teeth. Their shitness at making trains get from A to B somewhere near the scheduled time is bad enough, but they just make it worse with their inability to communicate properly. Wasted 15 minutes this morning watching their platform display tell me that my train was permanently one minute away. When it arrived, the driver tells us it's terminating at New Cross rather than Cannon Street. Why couldn't you just tell me that 15 minutes ago, you useless twats?!
Get a nice early dart from work ready for Christmas, get to the station and it's all delays and cancellations. No prizes for guessing what the problem was.
They were a disgrace this morning as well, took me until 2 o'clock this afternoon to unclench my fists and ungrit my teeth. Their shitness at making trains get from A to B somewhere near the scheduled time is bad enough, but they just make it worse with their inability to communicate properly. Wasted 15 minutes this morning watching their platform display tell me that my train was permanently one minute away. When it arrived, the driver tells us it's terminating at New Cross rather than Cannon Street. Why couldn't you just tell me that 15 minutes ago, you useless twats?!
Get a nice early dart from work ready for Christmas, get to the station and it's all delays and cancellations. No prizes for guessing what the problem was.
They were a disgrace this morning as well, took me until 2 o'clock this afternoon to unclench my fists and ungrit my teeth. Their shitness at making trains get from A to B somewhere near the scheduled time is bad enough, but they just make it worse with their inability to communicate properly. Wasted 15 minutes this morning watching their platform display tell me that my train was permanently one minute away. When it arrived, the driver tells us it's terminating at New Cross rather than Cannon Street. Why couldn't you just tell me that 15 minutes ago, you useless twats?!
Mr Largo, what do you think of their "we've cancelled your train you need a plan B" ?
Get a nice early dart from work ready for Christmas, get to the station and it's all delays and cancellations. No prizes for guessing what the problem was.
They were a disgrace this morning as well, took me until 2 o'clock this afternoon to unclench my fists and ungrit my teeth. Their shitness at making trains get from A to B somewhere near the scheduled time is bad enough, but they just make it worse with their inability to communicate properly. Wasted 15 minutes this morning watching their platform display tell me that my train was permanently one minute away. When it arrived, the driver tells us it's terminating at New Cross rather than Cannon Street. Why couldn't you just tell me that 15 minutes ago, you useless twats?!
Mr Largo, what do you think of their "we've cancelled your train you need a plan B" ?
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When things aren't going to schedule, they really need a plan B.
I think the last one relates to not enough staff turning up for work.
Multiple swear words a la Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, jerrry sadowitz, et al.
If the answer is a) broadly equivalent and b ) I can do without it then why wouldn’t you drive in?