Fake Road Closures

[Hobosapien]

Oh and it's not just the roads that are the target of my ire at the moment.

Customer service on the railways is another bugbear of mine.

Why? It took me 3 1/2 hours to get from Chippenham to Worcester last Saturday all because I was late arriving for my connecting service thanks to FGW. But the way I was treated as an annoying inconvenience and dismissed in an offhand manner by the jobsworth BR guy on the train made me bloody furious.

Read a transcript of the conversation & see if wouldn't have been bloody furious.

It went something like this:

Jobsworth BR guy: Tickets please

The Gal: Why are we running late?

Jobsworth BR guy: We had to detrain an undesirable at Oldfield Park

The Gal: Inneresting, I'm sure but owing to the late running of this service, I am likely to miss my connection at Bristol Temple Meads. What do you intend doing to help me out of this dilemma?

Jobsworth BR guy: Where are you going?

The Gal: Worcester Shrub Hill

Jobsworth BR guy: That's Virgin Trains - it's a different TOC

The Gal: So?

Jobsworth BR guy: Nothing to do with us , love.

The Gal: Can you not at least phone ahead and ask for the station to hold the train since there are a number of passengers for that service on board this train?

Jobsworth BR guy: They won't do that, they've got targets, y'know...

The Gal: What about the target to do with letters of complaint from disgruntled customers?

Jobsworth BR guy: As I said, nothing to do with us, love.

The Gal: So what do you suggest I do?

(and this is the comment that made me absolutely apoplectic)

Jobsworth BR guy: Just go with the flow, love


Go with the flow?? In what other business in a free market economy would that individual still have a job? Seriously.... :tantrum

Sounds like you were lucky not to be detrained as an undesirable, challenging them like that. How dare you not just go with the flow, causing a scene and disturbing other passengers.

[Pip in a Poke]

Sounds like you were lucky not to be detrained as an undesirable, challenging them like that. How dare you not just go with the flow, causing a scene and disturbing other passengers.

Well, yes looking back on it the way he was slow hand-clapped out of the carriage by myself and the other passengers destined for the Plymouth - Birmingham NS Cross Country service could have made me the target of a tasering by British transport Police upon arrival at BTM

[greenlake]

Surely closing fake roads is a good thing.

[jamesbrown]

Move to the continent. Problem solved.

He could populate the continent with his tedious sockies.

[Hobosapien]

A rare case where following a sat nav blindly (quite literally for some of the coffin dodgers plaguing our roads) will have a positive outcome.

Then they are just left wondering why the chicken is wanting to cross the road.