TFL Tube Strikes
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Thanks for the advice and good wishes guys. I am gonna take the run to Paddington via Reading overground so getting to the first appointment will be fine. It is just the second one that could be challenging compounded by the uncertain timeframe of the first, but the advice here will help.
Sun is shining. It's gonna be a good day whatever the slackers try to do to me.
Sun is shining. It's gonna be a good day whatever the slackers try to do to me.
SeeFive said:
Thanks for the advice and good wishes guys. I am gonna take the run to Paddington via Reading overground so getting to the first appointment will be fine. It is just the second one that could be challenging compounded by the uncertain timeframe of the first, but the advice here will help.
Sun is shining. It's gonna be a good day whatever the slackers try to do to me.
Best of luck, don't let the bSun is shining. It's gonna be a good day whatever the slackers try to do to me.
ds grind you down.Hope all goes well
I had a lovely walk from Waterloo to Green Park today (and yesterday).
Took about 25 mins which is only 10 mins more than dropping into the depths of the earth to take the Jubilee line.
Might do it more in future.
It also meant I could spend much of the time on the phone to Vodafone ranting about their content blockers keeping me away from the Ladbrokes website. Morons.
Took about 25 mins which is only 10 mins more than dropping into the depths of the earth to take the Jubilee line.
Might do it more in future.
It also meant I could spend much of the time on the phone to Vodafone ranting about their content blockers keeping me away from the Ladbrokes website. Morons.
BJG1 said:
Get the Uber app, should be able to get a car inside 10 mins.
Then the problem is the traffic. I took my eldest to school and then drove to work this morning. The drive to school took 40 minutes instead of 20 and then my drive to work took an hour instead of forty minutes.
Johnnytheboy said:
This thread's a bit weird: where have all the usual PH union apologists gone?
Well I am usually in favour of collective action as a rule, but when you see how much tube employees are paid relative to say teachers or nurses in the capital (you know, people with actual skills) even I have to admit that things have gone too far.walm said:
I had a lovely walk from Waterloo to Green Park today (and yesterday).
Took about 25 mins which is only 10 mins more than dropping into the depths of the earth to take the Jubilee line.
Might do it more in future.
It also meant I could spend much of the time on the phone to Vodafone ranting about their content blockers keeping me away from the Ladbrokes website. Morons.
Apparently BorisBike journeys are up about 70% yesterday/today. presumably limited by bike and/or free docking slot availability. Tube strike is making people discover things like BorisBike and walking. There will be people that discover that taking the bus may well take 10 minutes more but you generally get a seat and you get mobile coverage etc. The strike action itself will be driving an amount of people off the tube and into discovering these other ways to get from A to B especially in spring/summer, they could be driving passengers away to other modes of transport even more than the proposed changes from ticket offices to roving ticket machine helpers ever would have done.Took about 25 mins which is only 10 mins more than dropping into the depths of the earth to take the Jubilee line.
Might do it more in future.
It also meant I could spend much of the time on the phone to Vodafone ranting about their content blockers keeping me away from the Ladbrokes website. Morons.
They can all suck my wanger
Yesterday, train to Euston, tube to Earl's Court via Victoria was fairly simple if a little crowded on the District Line. Last night though, ended up getting out of the cab at Hyde Park and walking the rest of the way down Park Lane to get to the hotel
This morning, worse - the hotel I was in was on Sloane St, nothing from Knightsbridge, walked to Hyde Park Corner, still nothing, cabbed it up from there to Euston. Traffic was horrible, really nasty. It didnt help with 2 tour coaches trying to turn in to the road we were coming out of.
I missed the train I pre booked and left an hour early to get across town and it cost me an extra £90 to get home
Striking just basically says to me 'we dont give a fk, we're going to disrupt everyone as much as we can' If that's the attitude, and there was a vote, I'd vote in favour of doing it just to balance out the wrongs.
Yesterday, train to Euston, tube to Earl's Court via Victoria was fairly simple if a little crowded on the District Line. Last night though, ended up getting out of the cab at Hyde Park and walking the rest of the way down Park Lane to get to the hotel
This morning, worse - the hotel I was in was on Sloane St, nothing from Knightsbridge, walked to Hyde Park Corner, still nothing, cabbed it up from there to Euston. Traffic was horrible, really nasty. It didnt help with 2 tour coaches trying to turn in to the road we were coming out of.
I missed the train I pre booked and left an hour early to get across town and it cost me an extra £90 to get home
Striking just basically says to me 'we dont give a f
k, we're going to disrupt everyone as much as we can' If that's the attitude, and there was a vote, I'd vote in favour of doing it just to balance out the wrongs. 
andy-xr said:
Striking just basically says to me 'we dont give a fk, we're going to disrupt everyone as much as we can'
Striking says to me:k, we're going to disrupt everyone as much as we can' - a monopolised or cartel industry, with
- a monopolised/cartel unionised employees
Digga said:
triking says to me:
But don't we have fairly regular British Airways cabin crew strikes?- a monopolised or cartel industry, with
- a monopolised/cartel unionised employees
Point 1 doesn't seem to apply to them does it?
I mean airlines are famously competitive... that's why they keep going bankrupt!
iphonedyou said:
Johnnytheboy said:
I love that.
This thread's a bit weird: where have all the usual PH union apologists gone?
Stuck somewhere in London without a viable transport option, one presumes.This thread's a bit weird: where have all the usual PH union apologists gone?
I had the misfortune to listen to the RMT acting boss on the wireless talking to Vanessa Feltz trying to justify things. What a f
king clown. A caricature of an ignorant left wing tosspot that would be unbelievable in a drama, the fact that he is real can only, I hope, serve to bring these oafs to account.Well, the travel rush turned into cabs which was expensive but gave me a chance to share a cab with the 2nd company's VP of dev.
Thanks well wishers. Both sessions could not have gone better. First company was 4 c level interviews, 1 demo to me, 1 presentation from me. One guy was missing today but we will do a skype session to cover the last bits.
2nd company was a start out. Next stages next week.
So overall a good day if you like spending £50 on cabs and 10 hours getting grilled by execs. On the train home now. Should be in around midnight - tired but happy.
Thanks well wishers. Both sessions could not have gone better. First company was 4 c level interviews, 1 demo to me, 1 presentation from me. One guy was missing today but we will do a skype session to cover the last bits.
2nd company was a start out. Next stages next week.
So overall a good day if you like spending £50 on cabs and 10 hours getting grilled by execs. On the train home now. Should be in around midnight - tired but happy.
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