Anyone here work as a tube driver for TFL??

Dont forget the other perks:

- Free dependants pass (free travel for any one living in your house)
- Spares duty.
- Rest days on top of 43 days holidays

All with a 45k-50k salary for 3-4 months training. No qualifications necessary either.
 
sithlord said:
Dont forget the other perks:

- Free dependants pass (free travel for any one living in your house)
- Spares duty.
- Rest days on top of 43 days holidays

All with a 45k-50k salary for 3-4 months training. No qualifications necessary either.
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but but but sometimes they have to get up early or work late at night, they're also responsible for passengers and stuff and there is a small chance that one day someone might jump in front of the train... that must mean they're worth 50k right?
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
There is still a driver on the train who operates the doors and manually operates the train if required.
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bet the aren't paid 50K though, it's funny that the only two significant accidents both occurred when the trains were manually driven :)

Anyone who doesn't think the tube will be fully automated within the next ten-twenty years is mad the government will be itching to get the tech in place so they can tell the unions where to stick their demands :)
 
Gilly said:
643 suicide attempts between 2000-2010 with a big increase towards the end due to the financial crisis. I expect that trend has continued then.

Fair chance of copping at least an attempt if not worse, though the stats of people being killed have fallen since they put in 'suicide pits' that are gaps under the track itself.
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My old man worked for an electrical installation firm that often work on the underground and just as often has seen these people jump off like lemmings. A story he used to tell me when I was a lad was a bloke jumped but after the initial mess and panic the emergency services couldn't find his head they later found the impact and way how he landed pushed it in to chest!

Never bothered confirming if he was pulling my leg but I would have guessed it would be possible.
 
Liquiduk said:
My old man worked for an electrical installation firm that often work on the underground and just as often has seen these people jump off like lemmings. A story he used to tell me when I was a lad was a bloke jumped but after the initial mess and panic the emergency services couldn't find his head they later found the impact and way how he landed pushed it in to chest!

Never bothered confirming if he was pulling my leg but I would have guessed it would be possible.
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My dad was a safety inspector for the railways and always remember him telling me that a tell tale sign of a suicide was if the body was found with shoes on or not. Shoes on = accident. Shoes off = suicide. Something to do with the fact that suicides normally lean out, their head gets struck and the body cartwheels through the air and the shoes come off. I always though he was pulling my leg ('scuse pun).

Then I did my two weeks work experience on the railway (same building as my dad but not with him) while I was at school. We got called out to a suspected suicide and asked if I wanted to go (they asked my dad if it was okay first) so I said sure, why not. So we get there and the first thing they check is to see if the body had no shoes on. It didn't. Upon analysing the CCTV, sure enough, it's as clear as day it was a suicide.

Pretty grim day, but on the bright side on the way back to the offices we called in on a reported cow strike and I took 10kg of prime beef home with me that day!

Brutos said:
As a Tube passenger i have no love for tube drivers..
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You're a Londoner - you have no love for anyone!
 
a1ex2001 said:
Anyone who doesn't think the tube will be fully automated within the next ten-twenty years is mad the government will be itching to get the tech in place so they can tell the unions where to stick their demands :)
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Automated trains and driverless cabs are the way forward.

I'm not keen on killing a profession (ok I have to admit to being happy to see the black cab driver under threat), but the fundamentally safest system is an automated one.
 
platypus said:
Automated trains and driverless cabs are the way forward.

I'm not keen on killing a profession (ok I have to admit to being happy to see the black cab driver under threat), but the fundamentally safest system is an automated one.
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Lets hope i get the job and that it doesn't happen to soon!
 
dowie said:
you previously argued that it was the reason for getting paid 50k now you're claiming they're not expected to have to deal with it
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Soldier - You will get shot at.
Nurse - You will see messed up people die.
Train Driver - You *might* encounter a splatt... or you might have a career of decades and never see it.

The railways are still quite old-school in many respects, so until their bean counters can actually tie down the likelihood of such things and cost up the probability, it's easier to just give the salaries a boost. Sewer flushers get a small boost for the same reasons.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Soldier - You will get shot at.
Nurse - You will see messed up people die.
Train Driver - You *might* encounter a splatt... or you might have a career of decades and never see it.
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yes... you previously cited it as the reason for the 50k, now you're correctly pointing out that is just something you *might* encounter

it isn't the reason for getting paid 50k
 
dowie said:
yes... you previously cited it as the reason for the 50k, now you're correctly pointing out that is just something you *might* encounter
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The fact that they might (and some do, but not all/enough to consider it a job aspect) is one of the factors in them getting the 50k. I'm sure the union did use it in arguing the case that got it put to 50k, too... but it's still part of the reason.
 
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