Re: The stupidity of passengers.

[mstrutt@newsmail.tafensw.edu.au]

In article <369ABD3E.6B545818@fastlink.com.au>, Robert Harris <bob@fastlink.com.au> writes:
> mstrutt@newsmail.tafensw.edu.au wrote:
> 
>>         If only I could.
>>
>>         Unfortunately I have to get here via a guantlet
>>         which while it does include a *few* compentent
>>         rail workers is increasingly made up of stupid,
>>         inept and authoritarian racists who are not interested
>>         in communicating with passengers unless it's to
>>         play mindless little power games, especially if
>>         those passengers are from a group which can
>>         easily be pushed around, like minorities or
>>         young people.
>>
>>         I started checking out this NG because I thought,
>>         by it's nature, it might include those in the industry
>>         who could communicate and had a vision for their
>>         future beyond the pub on payday.
>>
>>         Instead I find a bunch of passenger hating racists
>>         who just want to engage in mutual masturbation about
>>         how superior to passengers, 'lebs' and kids they
>>         are.
>>
>>         But this has been an education to me.
>>
>>         I thought the rail system was run so badly
>>         because the *management* are jerks ...
>>
>>                                                         - michael
>>
> 
> OK.
> How do you get these thoughts.
> Take a look at the first ......say 50 rail employees in the network. I will be very surpirsed if you see 50 white
> "inept and authoritarian racists" we have all kinds.
> But I doubt you will because you are caught up in your own beliefs and have no wish to learn the truth.
> 
	You will see in my earlier postings that I said that
	I did *not* consider them a majority (in CR that is,
	they possibly are in this newsgroup), however they
	are apparently considered the 'norm', i.e. a standard
	appropriate to CityRail.

	Check out ex-HC judge Diamond Jim McLelland's article
	in the Herald a few months ago regarding his experience
	of the new arrogance and disregard for passengers evident
	in CR staff these days. Doubtless he was just 'caught up 
	in his own beliefs and had no wish to learn the truth'.

							- michael

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