normarker

I will take that as a compliment, a tribute to my erudition, a profound respect for my ability to express my feelings clearly and succinctly, and a respectfull disregard of my complete inability to spell all but the simplest words correctly.
I thank and salute you sir.

normarker

....and I've had a few tonight!

normarker

My daughter has a horse, its not as high as the one I'm on tonight

Luke

Remember the last Horse Thread!!!

carl

Surely driving a bus requires more skill than driving a tube (a bus has two degrees of freedom -- three if you get it really wrong -- whereas a tube has just the one). Don't see many bus drivers on £33k pa.

ChrisB

Jesus, they're having a fooking laugh! [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

marty_t3

I don't see how skill can even be considered when talking about tube drivers salaries. It isn't anymore difficult than driving a car... the rules of the "road" may be different for them, but, they have far less to deal with than the average driver trying to get to work in the morning.

As for the responsibility for hundreds of lives... well so do dozens of other proffessions, plumbers for example, don't want and big gas explosions now do we. Even the guy working behind the meat counter in tescos, don't want him giving everyone food poisoning.

It doesn't matter if there's 1 or 300 people on the train, the drivers should be taking the same care and acting every bit as responsibly when carrying just one passenger. I'm sure most folk here carry passengers about all the time... we just accept the responsibility and get on with it.

I was with one company for 7 years... had 4 promotions in that time... had 11 ppl working for me.... had what i'd consider to be a decent job with decent perks.

I would have swapped it in a second to drive a tube for 33k a year.

Tube drivers should just shut the F*** up and stop causing hassle for the ppl who actually work for a living.

Marty.

MarkO

Christ, we're all being a bit bloody pious here, aren't we?

Let's be honest, as an IT contractor, I'm perfectly happy to fleece my client for an exhorbitant amout of wad which is completely unrelated to the actual amount of productive work I may or may not actually carry out (in between surfing SN and reading my email).

The tube drivers are just having a pop to get a few more quid. Good luck to them.

[you may have gathered that I don't ever actually take the tube, so really DGAS if the tube drivers go on strike.... ]

ChrisB

If you went on strike for even more money Mark, the only thing that would suffer are KFC and Pizza sales

I'm sure London wouldn't grind to a halt...

MarkO

Erm 'pot', 'kettle', and a dark colour spring to mind.
Let's be honest though, if you could bring London to a halt by striking for more pay, wouldn't you do it? I would. I mean, the chaos means you're more likely to get the pay rise, and you get to laugh at all the poor suckers sitting in gridlock all day into the bargain. You know, the kind of suckers who make comments like "Tube drivers should just shut the F*** up and stop causing hassle for the ppl who actually work for a living.".

ChrisB

Says the man who's buying a spare pizza...

True, but I couldn't give a hoot either - I don't visit on tube strike days.

MarkO

Not buying, remember, it's 2-for-1. The spare pizza's free.

ChrisB

We could argue that point for ages...

22BUK

Am I correct in thinking that the Docklands Light Railway has driverless trains?

carl

Yep, DLR is driverless, but dog slow
Actually, IIRC, some of the tube trains are automated but have a driver in there 'in case things go wrong'. IIRC this applies to the Vic line and the later Central line trains, at least.