Anyone here work as a tube driver for TFL??
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Not having to face any customers, ****** co-workers and having the ability to work by yourself without sticking to same 9 to 5 schedule with good holiday allowance and pay just under £50k sounds like an utterly brilliant job for the right kind of people.
Sounds blummin brilliant, but for the fact that it's London based.
The ones on the bus I used to have to catch for work must have been making a flipping fortune!
you can always live just outside London on the edge of the tube - its not like you have to pay for transport...
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If TFL does not need the drivers what can the Union do?
Indeed I know people earning half that in graduate positions with a boatload of stress, awful management and/or having to be in a customer facing role with bad hours and worse holiday allowances. Having come from a hotel background I know that some would have to work average 50 to 60 hours a week with all the stress that the job brings with exceptionally unsocial hours to again get to even half that.
Granted this isn't a job for everyone but it still sounds great for someone who's the right fit.
They just introduced some new stock on the District Line, i'd be shocked if the new trains are not driverless capable
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That's why I don't think the Night weekend tube application will go through cause Aslef, RMT and Unite won't allow it.
Still I applied though £20,000 for working just the weekend will do me if it happens.
There's more to driverless trains than the rolling stock. Some of the signalling on the District Line dates back to the 1920s!
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I didn't think there was any hate but the recent tube strikes have made them unpopular. It was utter chaos on those days and to most of us that's unforgivable, still I'd happily do the job.
I don't?
It's more the unions that people hate who seem to strike at every opportunity to milk the system for all its worth.
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It's that last part that has the biggest impact.
Often tehy won't go under the train - They'll be splatted (yes, splatted) all across the front of it and the last thing you see before your view turns red is their face.
As part of my job, I work trackside possessions on railway and Underground lines so I've done the courses for my PTS (AC & DCCR) and Lucas cards - In both, they take a lot of time to carefully explain the consequences of messing up on Safety around railways and the effects it will have on everyone involved. They show very graphic training videos which include genuine footage of incidents occurring - Big burly tough-as-nails workmen renewing the qualifications often leave the room rather than watching them ever again, some in tears before they make it out the door. No-one makes fun of them.
One thing they make VERY clear to us is that a train driver who has hit someone will often never drive a train again. Same for the work gangs who witness a colleague who falls foul of an oncoming train or a 33kV current.
It's a seriously sobering experience.
See above - That's what your salary factors in.
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Start refusing to do even the most simple of tasks unless you get paid silly money to do so.
no that isn't what your salary factors in, the salary is a reflection of the union's militant stance
nurses working in A&E, paramedics, members of the police, soldiers serving on the front line... they get to see horrible things too - getting to see horrible things at work != 50K a year
