Re: gaurds suck? drivers suck? nope...its Cityrail station staff that do!

["David Mayall" <davidmayall@hotmail.com>]

What the hell wood you know Anita?

"Anita Lukaszyk" <neety@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> Santosh Bhat wrote:
>
> > <begin gripe>
> >
> > Ok from a passenger or customer point of view, I think its the Cityrail
> > station staff that are giving the railways a bad reputation.
>
> Generally, yes.
>
> > But, as for station staff! They don't know their trains, they don't know
> > their stations,
>
> I know my trains, I know the stations.
>
> > they don't know how much to even charge!
>
> A lot of station staff don't actually sell the tickets, and therefore
> would not have any idea what the prices are.
>
> > I was attending
> > the cricket final at the SCG - a simple request to the staff at my local
> > station "Is there a combined ticket to the SCG?" reply: "where's that?".
> > Do they go out of their way to hire and then train complete idiots?
>
> Not everyone is familiar with abbreviations.
>
> > Another recent experience highlights the uselessness of station staff.
> > Three staff members sitting by the ticket gates, directing passengers to
> > use the open wide gate rather than bother to push their electronic
> > tickets in. Why bother buying a ticket at all when they actually WANT
> > you to not show a ticket?
>
> Central Station? :)
>
>
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> Anita Lukaszyk
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