Re: DOO Increase

["Goldie" <goldicom@powerup.com.au>]

Read the post again carefully - the advantages of DOO were in the passengers
favour (Better on time running and simpler operation).

You are letting your own prejudices cloud your judgement,  dowse your flame!

Goldie


"Brown Family" <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:49:34 GMT, "nicky" <nickydsantos@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi there
> >
> >I was a tube driver on the Piccadilly line when they went OPO (DOO), It
was
> >the best thing that ever happened, for the following reasons:
> >You could keep the train on time by departing stations when you wanted,
not
> >when someone six cars back on half the money said you could.
>
> Jeez, I bet you must've held the passengers, because they were not
> paid anything at all, but who actually paid to ride the trains, in
> total and utter contempt!!
>
> If everyone thought the way you do, and thank heavens we don't, the
> rich could ignore anyone they felt wasn't their fiscal equal such as
> police, security staff, ambulance drivers, firemen, doctors, etc. and
> do as they damn well please.
>
> Seems to me that since it was a condition of your employement that you
> would have to work with someone on half your wages, you have stuff all
> to complain about the bloke "six cars back".
>
> Typical pommy attitude, that seems to permeate at every strata of
> English society, and even foreigners if they stay long enough.
>
> Les Brown
>