Re: City Rail barriers often wide-open

[brett.fitzpatrick@employment.gov.au]

In article <6enbeh$jo3$1@wbn.sydnet.com>,
  "David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>
> SNIP
>
> It is extremely naive. I presume then that you use bank tellers during
> banking hours, rather than ATM's, as this keeps tellers employed - stuff the
> inconvenience of having to queue and pay the extra fees. I also presume you
> use operators for long-distance phone calls, rather than dial direct, as
> this keeps Telstra telephonists employed - again, bugger the extra cost. Or
> does this fall outside your defintion of "whatever it takes"?
>
> The system is not currently working properly because CityRail staff and
> management have not taken the time and trouble to make the system work
> properly. If they had bitten the bullet in the very beginning and forced
> people (including little old ladies, etc - no ageist slur intended) to use
> the gates, they wouldn't have half the problems they have now - perhaps
> then, they might be able to roster people so that the gates are manned all
> the time - it is not unusual to see the gates at city stations (Town Hall
> excepted - I wonder why) open from about 20:00 onwards. If they didn't have
> to have huge numbers of staff during th day, they might have been able to
> have people on at these times.
>
> Regards
>
> David Proctor
> daproc@bigfoot.com
>
>
David, I must be a leftie, pinko socialist clown!  ;-)

It's probbaly more to do with sheer bloody mindednes than anything else!

And no, I don't go the manual route when using banks, making telephone calls
etc. It is too inconvenient.

Excuse me, I have to run - I'm almost up to 99 (time to change hands) and
brown axeminster is starting to dribble out of both corners of my mouth
again!	:-)


Brett

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