Il conducente della metropolitana di Londra licenziato dopo aver lavorato a maglia e guardare i video al volante
London Underground driver sacked after knitting and watching videos at the wheel
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
Il conducente della metropolitana di Londra licenziato dopo aver lavorato a maglia e guardare i video al volante
London Underground driver sacked after knitting and watching videos at the wheel
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
16 commenti
Why is this not also a criminal offence? It would be for a lorry driver or a bus driver.
But…but…. the union will no doubt find a way to stop them getting sacked / threaten a strike / blame it on management…
Automate them and get rid of the drivers already. It’s ridiculous that we’ll probably have self driving cars on the road in a couple of years but a train that literally has to follow the tracks can’t be driverless.
This should be a criminal offence but also reinforces my belief that driving trains is really not hard and the underground could easily be automated.
Automate the train, replace the drivers with guard/conductors.
He should’ve just snorted powder like the rest, silly silly man….
Automation. That’s the key.
Remove the human element.
It’s safer, less error-prone, and more cost-effective.
There’s no reason why people should be manually knitting in this day and age.
I thought these were already automated, the driver just opens and closes doors.
It’s relativelly common to see drivers on their phones when approaching the platform…
Why do people hate people having an easier job?
No seriously, is it such a huge downside to have a job where you could do a bit of knitting or read a bit of a book between work?
Is it just jealousy?
80 grand a year to knit and watch Netflix. Where do I sign up?
I suspect she wasn’t the only one. Just that she got caught by a nosy onlooker taking video
At the wheel?
Fuck me, I know the standards of journalism are in the toilet but is too much to ask to know how a train works?
OK, I haven’t worked on London underground trains for 20 years but there is a large amount of stupid misinformation here.
The trains I worked on were all automated. The driver was there for safety. They just open the doors, check the passengers are on, shut the doors then send the train to the next stop. You could never get a train every 2 minutes without computer controls.
The driver is there for safety. Every now and then a track side pac fails and the train doesn’t get the data it needs, so it switches to manual mode, or the train computer fails or any number of other faults. The driver’s responsibility is to get the train moving and keep the passengers safe until the problem can be rectified.
In auto mode it’s just button pressing and waiting for the next station. If someone jumps on the track or there’s an obstacle there is almost nothing the driver can do anyway.
That was my experience 20 years ago. It’s certainly got more technical and more reliable in that time
They shouldn’t be diverted with knitting but it’s a very boring job and it is very unlikely anything would go wrong.
What an idiot, has an easy job that pays well and can’t be bothered to actually do it properly.
He won’t be making that much money again.
Seems harsh… They had said ‘pullover right now’, and he did a pretty blue one!