Re: Guards to Drive During Olympics?

["Vanguard" <apri@hotmail.com>]

Go David!
You are 100% correct!


David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Rod wrote:
>
> > > > There is no way a Guard will be fully trained in 14 weeks!
> > >
> > > You are quite right.  Guards have been in training since they started
as
> > Guards.
> >
> > Thats not right David! You are trained in crowd control and Safety to
the
> > Public!
> > Thats a lot different to mastering the movement and stopping of hundreds
of
> > tonnes of controlled mayhem.
>
> Really?  Do you actually know what Sydney Guards are trained in?
>
> > And that is why I say you are deluded, David. By the way I left my job
as an
> > Accountant with Coats Patons to eventually drive Trains!
> > You wanted to bypass some of the most informative training you could
have
> > recieved, because you are still "white Collar" and perhaps did not want
to
> > get your hands dirty??
>
> I have never been "white collar".  You claim that I wanted to bypass
informative
> training...  What pertinent training would that be?  I am not going to be
> driving freight trains, or any loco hauled trains at all.  I will be
driving
> Electric Multiple Units which are completely different.
>
> > Well Mate, you know what you want, and I am glad I dont work on the same
> > system as you, and anyone else who looks for the easy way to do things.
>
> I'm glad you don't work up here too.
>
> > Well I do not know if they did or not, but of the 1000 odd guards,
signalmen
> > and shunters that
> > were left without jobs, only 9 arrived on the Engines as Drivers, the
rest,
> > left or failed the classes.
>
> That has nothing to do with me.
>
> > No David, History says so, time and time again!  England produced an
eleven
> > month whiz Kid, and I bet he was as proud as you when he went to work
each
> > day. Wow! I can drive Trains!
>
> Was he a guard first?
>
> --
> David Johnson
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
>
>