Train drivers = greed
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That all?
I work for a pretty big freight/rail maintenance company, and saw a job advertised internally for a freight train driver with a couple of years experience. Salary of £60k.
I want to be a train driver :O
It is pure greed. I can't see any reason why a train driver should get paid any more than anyone else in the public transport sector tbh. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe it takes the same amount of training or skill as say, flying a 747...
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I know a train driver, I'm not going to try and justify their jobs but apparently it's mind numbingly boring, there's more red tape than you've ever seen, you sit there all day by yourself saying nothing to anyone and many of them have had someone thrown themselves in front of the train or run over an already dead corpse. Can't be nice seeing that and they have very serious counselling for that.
Wrong, just wrong!
These clowns should be getting the standard 2-2.5% pay rise along with most of the rest of the country and they should be pleased with that. They then need to shut the hell up like the rest of the country do when they get the basic inflation matching pay rise.
The profits should be going toward the long suffering commuter by either improving the service or cutting the ridiculous fares.
These people really annoy me, what gives them the right to strike? Just because strike action causes chaos and thus they are more likely to get the outcome they want?
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I don't know. For £40,000 a year I would give it a sincere shot.
Lots of drivers have committed suicide, due to the memories of hitting suiciders and other people on track.
perhaps unlike most sectors. There's no alternative companies.
It would be hard to run over a live corpse.
Having worked for BR before privatisation and seen drivers turn to complete twitch jobs when some saddo decides to end it all by walking in front of train I have every sympathy with the drivers.
There was a particularly bad one in North Wales a couple of years a ago when some wench took a running jump off a platform onto the front of a though train. Reputedly the head disintegrated on the windscreen wiper and the contents had slid up the window by the time the train had managed to stop.
I know, and I'm not saying anything like I'm tough and can handle being involved in such a situation, as I've never been in a situation like it. I might even end up quitting if I was involved in such an incident.
I would, however, definitely give such a job a damn good try for £40,000 a year and I've actually just put it on my list of career possibilities once I get some other issues out of the way. The RSPCA is currently #1.
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It might still be twitching, or chopped off at the torso trying to drag itself off the rails having changed its mind when you plough over its head and finish the jobIt would be hard to run over a live corpse.
Gross
That it certainly is, I've seen the photo's and some work mates who attended such things had counselling. The force is so strong the eye ball popped out and was a long way from what remained of the body.
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Strikes to popping eye balls in one GD fell swoop.
boo hoo tbh..
It is semi skilled labour & a job plenty of people with no quals want - I really think they should turn round and tell them all to get ****
factory workers have boring jobs too - they get paid much less
as for the maybe one or two dead people they'll see in their entire career - thats a complete joke - think about what a junior doctor or an A&E nurse has to go through - they get paid less than train drivers yet have longer hours, less holidays and do a job that requires far more intelligence a longer period of training and is far more demanding.
Train drivers should get a pay cut tbh...
Fully star out swearing. FF.
I'd argue driving and manoeuvring a 44ton artic was just as skilled, just as in demand, yet commands no where near the same wage!
I know of a few truckers that have struggled with this very issue.
I had somebody - apparently - try to end it all by jumping out in front of me in an HGV, I avoided the idiot, but, did quite a bit of damage to the poor sod in a Merc Sprinter along side me!
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There's a bit of a difference in my opinion.
Someone dying as you try to save their life is a bit different to if someone purposefully jumps in front of your vehicle and you, in essence, have personally killed that person. I can see why it would be hard to deal with.
Then you'd lose on that point
.I would say an extremely low percentage of train drivers have killed someone - from the way people are talking it makes it sound like it happens to almost every train driver.