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SouthEastern this Morning

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  • ChiAddick
    ChiAddick Posts: 1,781
    MrLargo said:

    Proper shit show this evening. To be fair, it has been quite wet today, hardly the sort of weather you expect to see in England.

    Anyway, bless them - they have apologised for any inconvenience this may cause, so that makes it all okay.

    Utter c#%ts. Give me 5 minutes in a locked room with one of the South Eastern Managers - you would be amazed how much pain I can inflict with a strategically folded "Delay Repay" leaflet.

    Do you go to those meetings?

    If you do ask to film it. Could be a YouTube hit.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Ive tried to go to those meetings before. however, i pass through the station well before their 8am start time. The one time I was starting work a little later and thought I'd attend, my train was late so I missed it as I was then late for work.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    ChiAddick said:

    MrLargo said:

    Proper shit show this evening. To be fair, it has been quite wet today, hardly the sort of weather you expect to see in England.

    Anyway, bless them - they have apologised for any inconvenience this may cause, so that makes it all okay.

    Utter c#%ts. Give me 5 minutes in a locked room with one of the South Eastern Managers - you would be amazed how much pain I can inflict with a strategically folded "Delay Repay" leaflet.

    Do you go to those meetings?

    If you do ask to film it. Could be a YouTube hit.
    What meetings are you referring to? If you mean the "Meet the Manager" meetings, I've never bothered. They aren't really meetings anyway, they just get all the managers to stand around in a group on the concourse at one of the big stations, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, etc on a random morning every few weeks, so that passengers can politely enquire as to why the service is so f*&king dismal, how can you "displace a train crew", does one cloud really constitute "extreme weather conditions", etc, etc. Nobody really seems to bother though, which I presume is either because they can't stop because they're late for work as a result of disruption caused by a points failure at Lewisham, or because the South Eastern Management Team mostly look like the kind of people who have to spend a good few minutes thinking up a response to the question "what is your name?".

    I did once stop and ask one of them if he'd come to work with me and explain to my manager why I was late every morning (wasn't up for it unfortunately), but generally it's just a pointless PR exercise. If your main issue with South Eastern is that the hand dryer in the ladies toilets at Robertsbridge Station has been broken for the last two months then you might just see some action taken. If, however, your main issue with South Eastern is that they are the worst company in the entire world, that they steal your money, steal your time and force you to travel in a mobile septic tank, it's unlikely to make much difference if you spend 5 minutes talking about it with a man who probably reminds you of the thickest kid you went to school with.
  • MrLargo said:

    ChiAddick said:

    MrLargo said:

    Proper shit show this evening. To be fair, it has been quite wet today, hardly the sort of weather you expect to see in England.

    Anyway, bless them - they have apologised for any inconvenience this may cause, so that makes it all okay.

    Utter c#%ts. Give me 5 minutes in a locked room with one of the South Eastern Managers - you would be amazed how much pain I can inflict with a strategically folded "Delay Repay" leaflet.

    Do you go to those meetings?

    If you do ask to film it. Could be a YouTube hit.
    What meetings are you referring to? If you mean the "Meet the Manager" meetings, I've never bothered. They aren't really meetings anyway, they just get all the managers to stand around in a group on the concourse at one of the big stations, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, etc on a random morning every few weeks, so that passengers can politely enquire as to why the service is so f*&king dismal, how can you "displace a train crew", does one cloud really constitute "extreme weather conditions", etc, etc. Nobody really seems to bother though, which I presume is either because they can't stop because they're late for work as a result of disruption caused by a points failure at Lewisham, or because the South Eastern Management Team mostly look like the kind of people who have to spend a good few minutes thinking up a response to the question "what is your name?".

    I did once stop and ask one of them if he'd come to work with me and explain to my manager why I was late every morning (wasn't up for it unfortunately), but generally it's just a pointless PR exercise. If your main issue with South Eastern is that the hand dryer in the ladies toilets at Robertsbridge Station has been broken for the last two months then you might just see some action taken. If, however, your main issue with South Eastern is that they are the worst company in the entire world, that they steal your money, steal your time and force you to travel in a mobile septic tank, it's unlikely to make much difference if you spend 5 minutes talking about it with a man who probably reminds you of the thickest kid you went to school with.
    Where's Stig gone with his 'post of the week' image?
  • Wife has just phoned me to say that a freight train has broken down outside Hither Green station. They have all been turfed off and no idea when the line will be cleared.

    Good job she left work early!
  • Ah! the old freight train ploy..................
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092

    Wife has just phoned me to say that a freight train has broken down outside Hither Green station. They have all been turfed off and no idea when the line will be cleared.

    Good job she left work early!

    Wonderful!
    Yesterday my train was diverted from the Sidcup line to the Bexleyheath line due to a "problem" at Hither Green.

    When I got off at Eltham people trying to get to New Eltham were having their tickets refused by the bus drivers and in one instance the driver refused to let a passenger on as he had a tin of paint with him.

    The bloke got a bit annoyed and lobbed the tin of paint at the bus!

    So if you see a 314 bus with a nice new white emulsion paint job,you know how it happened.


  • Broken down train @ Dartford... Signal issues @ Plumstead at the moment!!
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Sidcup line is screwed :(
  • Sidcup line is screwed :(

    Don't tell Smudge!
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  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Nah! He'll be in the boozer. :)
  • Nah! He'll be in the boozer. :)

    HaHa! How silly of me.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825

    Nah! He'll be in the boozer. :)

    The days of Friday afternoon visits to the pub are 99% finished i'm sad to say.

    Today is a 1% day though :-)

    Spoons at 4.30 anyone? :-)

  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Mr Largo, you should have kept a diary of your escapades over the years and released it as a book under the 'comedy' section.
  • At Dartford, the 08 via bexleyheath, has no driver, he shows up and cancel all stops to lewisham to make sure it's on time when it gets to the other end.
  • At Dartford, the 08 via bexleyheath, has no driver, he shows up and cancel all stops to lewisham to make sure it's on time when it gets to the other end.

    And so means that people cant apply for a refund via. the claim repay...
  • Anyone on here pay for the service offered by delayrepaysniper.com?
  • nichorob
    nichorob Posts: 1,794

    At Dartford, the 08 via bexleyheath, has no driver, he shows up and cancel all stops to lewisham to make sure it's on time when it gets to the other end.

    I wish they were all like that, in fact sod Lewisham, make the first stop Eltham.

    Is there still the peak time fast train to Sidcup from Charing Cross? Miss that one now i'm based at Victoria.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,223
    I got on a train. It then broke down at London Bridge and thrown off. So you now have platform one out. Good luck getting home.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Engineering works on the same weekends as the Rugby World Cup. What clown thought this up?
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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Indeed, a Rugby World Cup.. what next!!!!!