Re: re why ......

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

obviously Greg a moron would know...eh?
by the way, I have a military trunk overfilled with Classroom notes,
manuals, safeworking exams, appendixes, Diesel guides, Help manuals etc etc.
You are welcome to come and peruse them any time, although I doubt that a
moron would get much value out of any of this stuff! Then probably that is
what is wrong with Sydney's Electric Train System at this time...they want
to relax the job classification so that wages of $75000 can be 'moronised'
back to a comfortable $35000 or so. Guess what would happen to your trains
then?

In Melbourne we got rid of guards pretty quickly. Guards were offered spots
in classes to learn how to drive trains and much to the Drivers disgust were
offered reduced classes, taking account of their experience[?].
My figures are a little bit flaky, but essentially very few guards actually
took up the option, most left the job, or remained in the traffic sector as
Signalmen, shunters and even gangers.
Of those that sat the entrance exams, less than 5% went on to Drive.
Of those that passed Drivers exams, only about 10 are still in the job .
V/Line spent millions getting rid of guards, and got very little out of it.
Sydney seems to be making a complete mess of it, as usual. They better pull
their fingers out real soon, before class action is taken against the
operators, by some angry Corporations, big and small, who are sick and tired
of the unreliability of the Sydney System. Several Lawyers are sniffing
around at the moment, and remember, its the people of NSW who will pay this
bill.
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg <good@heart.organ>
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: re why ......


> LOL are you a wee bit pissy that a silly sub intelligent bell pusher can
> actually drive a train?  god man toughen up .. train driving is a simple
> skilled labourers job.. any moron can do it.