Re: re why ......

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

Well here we are again please hang yourself at the earliest
opportunity.........you know not even sheep would root you!!!!
"Greg" <good@heart.organ> wrote in message
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> "Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 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,
>
> what for?  i have studied as much if not more
> ie .. i had to sit an 8 hr written signalling exam with an 80% pass mark
as
> one of my tests, a secondfailure in this exam meant end of employment..
what
> were your exams .. lengths and pass marks?
>
>
> 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?
>
> a  driver paid 35 would be capable of doing the same job as a driver paid
75
> .. explain why he would not be?
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> >
> > In Melbourne we got rid of guards pretty quickly.
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> Happened many years ago in my country... your point?
>
>
>  Guards were offered spots
> > in classes to learn how to drive trains and much to the Drivers disgust
>
> ahh so its all about hurt feelings when drivers realised they were not
brain
> surgeons and infact any one could be employed as a train driver......
>
>
> 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.
>
> no doubt put off by the up themselves pompous attitudes of drivers such as
> yourself?
>
>
> > Of those that sat the entrance exams, less than 5% went on to Drive.
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> rofl what losers .. i was a "ticket collector" before sitting my second
> class the first class loco engineers tickets
> exam results all in the high 90 % s  .. your point is?
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