My Train Journey This Morning

[gricerboy]

Not much to report this morning other than some elderly man brazenly browsing gay porn on his PDA. Dirty old sod, I didn't know where to look.

More of interest were my activities yesterday afternoon. It was decreed that all the permie staff in my team were to be allowed to watch the England match; not being in the slightest bit interested and wishing instead to complete my testing, I turned down the invitation only to be rebuffed by the line manager who said that I wouldn't be able to carry out my tasks as several key resources would not be available as they were watching the match though he did say that the 2 hours or so allocated for the game would be billable. Well, I thought to myself, if they're going to pay me for 2 hours sat in front of a television, I'm going to get the bus up to Swindon station and get in an hour's gricing. And that is what I did. Unfortunately, it would appear that my absence was noted and now the line manager is saying that they are not going to sign off those 2 hours. I have a real issue with this as it would appear that I had absolutely no choice but to watch the game & this is an unacceptable level of control which I wouldn't like the tax man to hear about as I'm condsidering my current role as being outside IR35. I also feel that I should be getting paid for those 2 hours. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

As an interesting footnote to today's post, another gricer at Swindon station informed me that a Brush 4 would be passing through Didcot at 3.35 pm today so if my line manager gives me the hump again I might just flounce off for the rest of the day and see if I can bag it 'cos I note that it's not one I have underlined in my Ian Allen!

[Drewster]

Not much to report this morning other than some elderly man brazenly browsing gay porn on his PDA. Dirty old sod, I didn't know where to look.

HTF do you manage to closely study what anyone is doing on their PDA.... was he sitting in your lap?

..................... drone drone.............

Yawn!

[OwlHoot]

As a dabbler in S&T during a misspent period of my youth (I got sent there to learn all about Railways, I learned they downed tools over many weird and wonderful things)

:::

Anyway, not exponential, but a Fibonacci.

What's S & T ?

Oh and a Fibonacci sequence _is_ exponential (in the limit).

[gricerboy]

Problem with train (unspecified) then fixed.

You should have insisted on a reason. I would have done as I maintain a detailed log of commonly occurring faults on the network and send it to FGW each year to help them identify areas in their maintenance reginm ethat could be improved and thus improve the experience of us rail users.

[Churchill]

You should have insisted on a reason. I would have done as I maintain a detailed log of commonly occurring faults on the network and send it to FGW each year to help them identify areas in their maintenance reginm ethat could be improved and thus improve the experience of us rail users.

Would it be uncharitable of me to say "I wish you'd get hit by a train!"?

[Drewster]

Would it be uncharitable of me to say "I wish you'd get hit by a train!"?

Possibly....... but understandable!

[BoredBloke]

Well on my jaunt in this morning from Beaconsfield there was an old woman collecting for some charity. I balanced my brew on my book and gave her a bit of change. She commented that my book looked interesting although I'm not sure if she meant it. My tulip Life So Far by Frankie Boyle

[gricerboy]

Well on my jaunt in this morning from Beaconsfield there was an old woman collecting for some charity. I balanced my brew on my book and gave her a bit of change. She commented that my book looked interesting although I'm not sure if she meant it. My tulip Life So Far by Frankie Boyle

Chiltern Railways I assume?

[gricerboy]

Sat in my seat this morning I was taken all the way back to when I was a small boy and had just set out on my trainspotting career. You know what prompted these fond memories? Well I'll tell you. It's the notices they afix to carriage windows telling passengers where the train is going and what stations it will be stopping at. I used to collect these when I was young, I had a whole wall of my bedroom decorated with them. I guess most boys my age would have had posters of Rick Astley or Wet Wet Wet but I guess I was just different. They used to excite me - they would list the names of all these distant exotic sounding places that I had only ever dreamed of going - Nottingham, Derby, crewe etc. Well, I can tell you I got pretty exited this morning, so much so that as I stood up I brazenly pulled off the sticker from the window, folded it up and carefully placed it in my satchel from where I shall remove it tonight and fix it in its own special place on my bedroom wall.

[shaunbhoy]

Sat in my seat this morning I was taken all the way back to when I was a small boy and had just set out on my trainspotting career. You know what prompted these fond memories? Well I'll tell you. It's the notices they afix to carriage windows telling passengers where the train is going and what stations it will be stopping at. I used to collect these when I was young, I had a whole wall of my bedroom decorated with them. I guess most boys my age would have had posters of Rick Astley or Wet Wet Wet but I guess I was just different. They used to excite me - they would list the names of all these distant exotic sounding places that I had only ever dreamed of going - Nottingham, Derby, crewe etc. Well, I can tell you I got pretty exited this morning, so much so that as I stood up I brazenly pulled off the sticker from the window, folded it up and carefully placed it in my satchel from where I shall remove it tonight and fix it in its own special place on my bedroom wall.

4/10.

On the up..........well done.