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train operators are cunts
the government are cunts

sat on the 103 off to airport to pick someone up at 7am, would normally get train in but useless cunts are no longer operatingearly airport routes

no stike today so piss poor service to the countrys second busiest airport before 7am.


No rail service is not the workers or unions fault it is the bosses and their mismanagement
 
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Spot on re recruitment. As a country we need to look again at grants and tuition fees re skills shortages and make it free to go to university for certain key workers. Nursing, doctors, teachers in shortage subjects for a start. Tie the fees free deal into a return of service so you either do 10 years in the UK public sector or pay your grants/fees back like a student loan. This would genuinely improve the prospects of people here as well as ending the asset stripping of poorer countries in terms of their trained staff.
It'll never happen though because a previous govt persuaded us that free education was bad in the same way that this one is slowly convincing us that free healthcare should go.
It’s probably cheaper in the long run not to have full time employees, sick pay, pensions etc cost them a fortune, so to bodge and fix it and burn people out so they leave so they don’t have to pay pensions is what they want. Many moons ago in the RAF they stated to us they didn’t want people to do long service as it costs them a lot,, then I joined the fire service and our then Deputy chief openly said they didn’t want 30/40 year firefighters it cost them to much, as your pension build up in the last years is where it counts. They want people to do 10 years and fuck off. That’s why the government keep putting up the pension age they know most will die after a few years so they will pocket all that cash you contributed over 50 odd years!
 
It’s probably cheaper in the long run not to have full time employees, sick pay, pensions etc cost them a fortune, so to bodge and fix it and burn people out so they leave so they don’t have to pay pensions is what they want. Many moons ago in the RAF they stated to us they didn’t want people to do long service as it costs them a lot,, then I joined the fire service and our then Deputy chief openly said they didn’t want 30/40 year firefighters it cost them to much, as your pension build up in the last years is where it counts. They want people to do 10 years and fuck off. That’s why the government keep putting up the pension age they know most will die after a few years so they will pocket all that cash you contributed over 50 odd years!
HM Forces deffo after high turnover of high quality recruits plus a bigger reserve/ta. Makes sense - come in do 6-8 and leave before you are a high rank, entitled to quarters, or qualify for pension and do until 65 as a weekend warrior. Financial genius until you need experience/ capability, and realise that you are incentivising only those unemployable in civvie street to do a full career!
 
HM Forces deffo after high turnover of high quality recruits plus a bigger reserve/ta. Makes sense - come in do 6-8 and leave before you are a high rank, entitled to quarters, or qualify for pension and do until 65 as a weekend warrior. Financial genius until you need experience/ capability, and realise that you are incentivising only those unemployable in civvie street to do a full career!
The quality was falling when I left and my mate who was a trainer at the time said the standard kept falling as they were desperate to get people in as the country boomed an£ wages rise many don’t join the forces, they even employed someone with dyslexia, now you may think that’s not much of a problem but it is in the air traffic trade! Again the fire service is seeing a turnover as people join and find it’s not the job they they thought , wages aren’t good and lots of experience leaving to ironically drive trains, nobody ever used to leave.
 
train operators are cunts
the government are cunts

sat on the 103 off to airport to pick someone up at 7am, would normally get train in but useless cunts are no longer operatingearly airport routes

no stike today so piss poor service to the countrys second busiest airport before 7am.


No rail service is not the workers or unions fault it is the bosses and their mismanagement
I'm flying in today. Was supposed to be yesterday when the trains were running but my flight got cancelled. I now have to get a replacement bus.
 
The quality was falling when I left and my mate who was a trainer at the time said the standard kept falling as they were desperate to get people in as the country boomed an£ wages rise many don’t join the forces, they even employed someone with dyslexia, now you may think that’s not much of a problem but it is in the air traffic trade! Again the fire service is seeing a turnover as people join and find it’s not the job they they thought , wages aren’t good and lots of experience leaving to ironically drive trains, nobody ever used to leave.
The Metropolitan Police is an example of letting experienced people leave early, on voluntary redundancy, helped to destroy their capability.

Obviously, they always had a level of corruption but it seems any fooker was allowed to
Join them in recent years.

I don’t know enough about the running of the rail service but aren’t some of the proposals risky or possibly illegal? I’m thinking of disabled people trying to get on trains without a guard etc. That’s not “modernisation” for me but maybe there are areas of train services where reforms are needed. I just don’t know.
 
The quality was falling when I left and my mate who was a trainer at the time said the standard kept falling as they were desperate to get people in as the country boomed an£ wages rise many don’t join the forces, they even employed someone with dyslexia, now you may think that’s not much of a problem but it is in the air traffic trade! Again the fire service is seeing a turnover as people join and find it’s not the job they they thought , wages aren’t good and lots of experience leaving to ironically drive trains, nobody ever used to leave.
RAF will probably just be a call centre run by Babcock / serco in a few years ;-)
 
The Metropolitan Police is an example of letting experienced people leave early, on voluntary redundancy, helped to destroy their capability.

Obviously, they always had a level of corruption but it seems any fooker was allowed to
Join them in recent years.

I don’t know enough about the running of the rail service but aren’t some of the proposals risky or possibly illegal? I’m thinking of disabled people trying to get on trains without a guard etc. That’s not “modernisation” for me but maybe there are areas of train services where reforms are needed. I just don’t know.
“Modernistaion “ is another word for cuts, I’m sure it’s needed as they need to employ a diversity officer on about £60k a year!
 

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