Re: [NSW] Female guards are hopeless!!!

["Jane Campbell" <janecampbell@optusnet.com.au>]

So the female was the cause of the accident?  Wasn't because the driver was
setting back when he shouldn't have been?

Ahhhh what is an S set?  Sorry I'm just a dumb female.


<bung727@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8fkqpd$suk$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8fkqpd$suk$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Another prime example on just how pathetic the whole AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
> crap is and the consequences of such nonsense. The Cronulla accident
> the other night was caused by the FEMALE guard who gave the driver 3
> bells to reverse, and she walked off, leaving him high and dry, and not
> being able to give him 2 bells to stop.
> Question 1: Why wasnt she at the rear of the train giving bell signals
> every 5 seconds like she was supposed to?
> Question 2: Why, after weeks/months of training, female guards still do
> NOT know their job, they do NOT know how to divide S sets, and this
> accident is just another example of a female guard not knowing her job
> and responsibilities?
>
> Im not saying ALL female guards are like this, but I can honestly say
> MOST of them are like this.
>
> Cityrail advertise in newspapers for FEMALE ONLY positions as guards
> etc, so they get these new employees, who knows nothing about trains
> whatsoever, and they think they can get out of doing the dirty work.
> They just wanna bludge in their cabs all shift.
>
> Here is another example of stupidity. A driver I know was on platform 5
> at Homebush. The signal at the end of the platform was at stop. The
> FEMALE guard opens the doors, gives the usual boring announcements,
> closes the doors and gives him the bell to go. He sits there, and after
> receiving 5 more bells, he tells her that the signal is at stop. She
> shouldve seen that by noticing the guards indicator was not
> illuminated. The story gets better.
>  After she notices the guards indicator light up, she gives him the
> bell and they take off. Once his train passes the signal, which turns
> the signal to stop and thereby extinguishing the guards indicator, she
> notices the extinguished guards indicator, and pulls the "tail" (the
> guards emergency tap) and gives him 2 bells to stop. By now the furious
> driver asks what is the problem, and she says that she saw the guards
> indicator light go out and she thought he passed a signal at stop.
>  How pathetic. I have heard numerous stories like that, and you tell me
> that AFFIRMATIVE ACTION works. It is nothing more than descrimination
> against white aussie males. Instead of worrying about how many females
> there are on the job, they should employ more people who care and know
> more about the railways. Maybe itll be a better, safer railway if they
> do.
>
>
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