Re: [AUS] Edible Microphones (Was: Bad attitude)

["Brendan" <nadnerb_2000@NOSPAM.com.au>]

I heard that a few years ago a guy got busted for playing beethoven's 5th
at Sydney terminal. At maitland they play a local radio station.

This is why the recordings do have *some* benefit.

Accents are fine, as long as they can talk clearly. Perhaps guard training
should include pronunciation.

Brendan

Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in article
<8ECBECFBBtelstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
> Dion Williams said in message <3893E8F2.4387@start.com.au>, I therefore
> quote: 
> 
> >I'm still amazed at the number of station announcements, particularly at
> >city stations, made by staff who obviously don't speak much English or
> >who have impenetrably thick accents. I've got nothing against them being
> >employed but it stands to reason that you need people who speak clear
> >English to make announcements.
> 
> This seems to be a big problem in Melbourne as well, at Flinders Street
in 
> particular. This is not being racist as it may sound, but when someone
with 
> a really thick accent speaks over the P.A. it's not understandable. Trams

> also seem to have this. What they should at least do is have an optional 
> announciator which the driver can use if he feels that he either does not

> want to make a voice PA announcement, or has a thick-hard-to-understand 
> accent. Flinders Street has this already, but used about 75% of the time.
> 
> >At Town Hall a week or so ago I noticed a number of laughing voices
> >messing around with the PA. This happened about five or six times. If
> >they were staff I hope they were disciplined.
> 
> At Flinders Street about 4 months ago, someone kept making kissing noises

> over the P.A. This was about 10pm at night, and there were still many 
> people around. Mind you, once before someone let out a huge belch over a 
> P.A. at the same station. My guess is both got disciplined pretty
quickly.
> 
> >Dion
> 
> Regards
> Michael.
> 
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