Anyone here work as a tube driver for TFL??
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Same here. Interested to know how you applied and got through as a non existing employee.
When I was living in Holland I was on a train when someone parked their car on the rails at the last moment and that was that. The train was doing about 120kph at the time, I remember the bang and in a moment of confusion and disorientation I thought that the train was powered by steam and that the bits flying past the window were coal, due to the boiler blowing up (no idea where that came from, it's odd where your mind goes in a situation like that). Turns out the bits that flew past were all pieces of a Renault Clio, we were stuck in the train for about 40 minutes whilst the emergency services did a preliminary investigation and covered everything up so we could get off the train and walk to the nearest road. There wasn't even a 1% chance anyone would survive that, the train just mashed the car into a pulp.
Interesting. I've a few friends at head office who hadn't heard of it, 2008 was their last drive and not to the general public (which from googling is down to the setup between tfl and the trade unions).
Well done for getting through, it must have been a very narrow window!
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How much do you get paid for plugging ethernet cables in then.
yeah its horrible and to think they get paid about the normal rate for a semi skilled job plus a small amount extra for working in poorer conditions...
oh no wait, they get circa 50k a year after their 3 months training... and 43 days holiday a year
so is a bus driver
as for why not - it is a job that, though it requires certain standards re: reaction times etc.. rather a lot of people could do - it doesn't require much education and the training course is 3 months or so - if the process was more open then the actual market value of the typical tube driver would be far less as there are plenty of people out there able to do that job and who would quite happily do that job for say 30k and 30 days holiday. The current pool of applicants is drawn only from TFL employees at the moment AFAIK - it isn't like there are huge numbers of tube drivers quitting etc.. it is quite clearly a very cushy job despite the regular bleating and quite likely the best paid job any of those drivers would ever likely to be capable of getting
tube drivers have artificially inflated pay thanks largely to having a militant union that is happy to shut down the whole service relatively regularly
They get paid well as well don't they?
They get those perks because it's such a depressing job though. And because Bob Crow.
About 17k a year round here I think, so nothing amazing.
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they get those perks due to the union
like I said if you had open applications and an actual free market the job would be worth a lot less