Anyone work for TFL?

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Everytime someone posts a driver salary it seems to go up and up. I don't know the exact figure but it is around £40k. They also work 4 hour shifts non-stop in general and it's a lot more than just pushing a lever when driving (the non-ATO stock).
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A £40k job with "4-hr shifts", free travel among other perks sounds pretty good going to me considering the average wage in London is £24k

According to the papers you can't even sack drivers for incompetence without the thread of a strike :rolleyes:
 
nero120 said:
You're right. I'm sure all of the chaos, loss of earnings and pain that members of the RMT cause business and individuals in London is worth it just to have this heroes, these living idols bless us with their god-like skills, devotion to their customers and utter self sacrifice...

In case you couldn't tell, that's sarcasm and in the case of the RMT I think London should grant the senile and incontinent Lady Thatcher dictator powers just so she can ***-**** Bob Crow and the RMT out of existence. The sooner him and his ****-tard followers are dead and gone the better it will be for London as a whole. No I don't like them.
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I never said I agree with the RMT or any of their followers/Bob Crow ;)

My point was the ranting about the salary and what the job entails. Meaningless rants from someone without a clue in the world how the system actually works is just that, meaningless.

Chronictank said:
A £40k job with "4-hr shifts", free travel among other perks sounds pretty good going to me considering the average wage in London is £24k

According to the papers you can't even sack drivers for incompetence without the thread of a strike :rolleyes:
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I said 4 hour non-stop shifts. 2 of those per day and not just back to back ;)

It's a good job, no doubt, but then again it is mind numbingly boring. Perks are excellent though and job security is there. They certainly have a better deal than other staff don there E.g. Engineers.
 
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Chronictank said:
A £40k job with "4-hr shifts", free travel among other perks sounds pretty good going to me considering the average wage in London is £24k

According to the papers you can't even sack drivers for incompetence without the thread of a strike :rolleyes:
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What's a living wage for London? i.e. being able to afford your own home and not live in a dingy squat or house-share with people you don't know? Just because a lot of people are under-paid doesn't mean everyone else should be.
 
Good rant. I actually came on here to have a rant but that pretty much sums up how I feel.

from the BBC - said:
LU managing director Mike Brown said: "Just 29% of the 1,300 drivers balloted voted for this strike.

"The cases concerned are still going through the employment tribunal process and Transport for London will, of course, respond to whatever conclusions are reached in this process."
He said the RMT leadership seemed determined to disrupt London and its economy over several days.
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How do they justify going on strike when a) only a 29% turn out, and b) an employment tribunal is investigating these sackings?! How on earth should this be in anyway related to a strike?!!!

What's next, the coffee machine breaks - strike.
There's no toilet paper in the mens toilets - strike.
Someone farted - strike.

******* idiots.
 
HangTime said:
Tube is fantastic because you literally can't go wrong, you look at the map to work out the route, get on the relevant train(s), then get off when you arrive at the named stop.

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replace the word tube with bus and its is just as true , the stop the bus is going to go past next is displayed on a screen at the front (and announced sometimes im sure?) the maps on every bus stop are a similar layout to tube maps , just as easy to hop on and off

i thought the same as you about buses before i actually got one. i actually prefer them to the tube now .
 
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replace the word tube with bus and its is just as true , the stop the bus is going to go past next is displayed on a screen at the front , the maps on every bus stop are a similar layout to tube maps , just as easy to hop on and off

i thought the same as you about buses before i actually got one. i actually prefer them to the tube now .
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This - they've made them much easier to understand in town now :) They have announcements as well so it's hard to miss your stop.
 
I very much enjoyed reading this thread whilst looking at the roof of my flat from my office window and preparing to make the 5 minute walk home.
 
I'm going on Holiday on the 16th of May, and will be going to the Airport at least an hour earlier than first planned because of these strikes.

Work will also be a PITA to get to on the other dates.

I never want to see a fully automated service tbh. The DLR often gets things wrong (I use it daily) stopping short of platforms, or even missing them altogether, which requires the on-board PSA to take the controls and make the correction.

Some lines are already automated. Central and Jubilee are auto. But I still would like a trained operator on those trains.
 
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Agreed with the OP. RMT are scum, TFL are scum. I hope with this further wave of strikes Cameron finally sorts out the ballot rules. As it stands it doesnt matter how many members take part on a strike ballot, as long as there's a majority decision. You can have 3 people take part in the ballot.. as long as 2 vote for the strike then wahey let's shut down London :rolleyes:

Who would turn down a guaranteed 4% payrise this year, followed by 0.25% above inflation for the next 4 years? With inflation at 5.5% that's a payrise of 5.75% in the following year. Why, RMT of course :rolleyes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13193620
 
A fully automated service..interesting but who'd foot the bill? And who'd put up with the months and months of track closures needed to get the infrastructure up to scratch? Who'd foot the bill for the massive re-signalling needed? We are talking billions for a nationwide project..

A fully automated service on the underground is do-able but would cost an absolute fortune..on the overground system? Forget it.

Also, please remember that Bob Crow and the RMT represent the majority of underground drivers as well as almost all signallers and overground train conductors.Overground train drivers are almost exclusively represented by ASLEF.

And as has been already stated a driver earns around 40k which equates to around £2100 take home pay every four weeks.A good job certainly but not anywhere near as easy as simply moving levers about as some seem to think
 
nydryl said:
I very much enjoyed reading this thread whilst looking at the roof of my flat from my office window and preparing to make the 5 minute walk home.
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It's the principle. I work in central london and actually I win because I have a 3 minute walk to work! :p
 
ExRayTed said:
A fully automated service..interesting but who'd foot the bill?
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I think it's fair to say that anyone who uses the underground or indeed national rail in this country has been 'footing the bill' for many, many years. Public transport here is far more expensive than any other comparible countries, especially here in London. I thought that was common knowledge. You only have to go to another big city and use their metro system to see how outdated ours is. And expensive. It's time we got over the fact we had 'the first tube' and actually build one that works for the people in this day and age. Eg. larger carriages, quieter trains, long trains/platforms etc.

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And who'd put up with the months and months of track closures needed to get the infrastructure up to scratch?
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Again, how is that different to the poor souls who live on the Jubilee/Metropolitan/DLR/Overground lines? These lines are consistently closed every weekend :confused:
 
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