toscas_kiss: Tosca's Kiss Steampunk Kiss (Soul deep sarcasm)
toscas_kiss ([personal profile] toscas_kiss) wrote2009-06-10 11:22 am
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I X<3 London

Transport for London wage offer?
1.5

Rail, Maritime and Transport Union wage demand?
5.0

3 hour journey to work in cold, rainy London weather?
Priceless.
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[identity profile] penelope-z.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Gaaaah, I know! *is exhausted fighting with people to get on the bus*

[identity profile] toscas-kiss.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It sux like a Dyson.
I'm going to dawdle after work and go have dinner at the local Chinese restaurant before making my way home. I'd offer to meet you for dinner, but well, no tube...

[identity profile] chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the moment I get to use the follow:

FFS!!!!!

(For Fuck's Sake! - I've been using it a LOT lately).

My multinational harrow-moving company of evil (first or second weekend of August is now date of move) has a wage freeze on this year. AND we're profitable. Why does the RMT think they should be any different!?!!

3 hours. Bah. (Which line do you take in?)
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[identity profile] mandragora1.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I can relate. As I left my house at 6:30 am this morning I was thinking about the striking tube workers. Oh yes, I was definitely thinking all right. Long and deep thoughts. Mostly about what hole I'd like to drop the RMT leadership in.

5.0% in the worst recession since the Great Depression. You're having a laugh! At our expense.

[identity profile] toscas-kiss.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Exacerly!

Well, first there's the trip to the trainstation (at the normal time as I forgot about the strike), getting off at Ealing Broadway, remembering the strike due to the complete absence of District line, getting back ON a train to Paddington, waiting in the drizzle for 40 minutes to fit on a bus (#5 or 6 I think), then wending my way to Olympia at the less than 1898 average transport speed of 11 miles per hour... And I got to work about 1040 - before some of my other workmates who actually live inside the M25.
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[identity profile] toscas-kiss.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I was thinking those very same thoughts as I jolted along on the upper bus deck, standing, on my way back to Paddington this evening. I wonder if we get enough people to think the same we can psychic a mass hallucination into reality?

If it were any richer we'd be pulling a silver spoon out of their ar....er, mouths.
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