Newbury Train Station, GWR, Network Rail, Shame Shame Shame Options

[Andy Capp]

My company is putting me up for 5 nights in a very nice hotel just down the road from my place of work. Be quite nice. I can have a lie in!!! They can stick the buses up there @ss.

Im not. I’m too thick, poor and feckless to deserve such opulence.

[Andy Capp]

I’m on the HST, I like the HSTs.

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Im not. I’m too thick, poor and feckless to deserve such opulence.

I guess it depends on the Company you work for. Mine has a glassdoor rating that is in the top 20 in the Country. Work Life balance is so important and I've always found delivering 9 hours of quality work is better than being over tired by working 15 hour days. Then again my company is cash rich and I am delivering a near 10 figure ERP system for them at the moment with MS with cutover from 5 legacy systems to 1 very soon.... So they want me close!!

I hope your place sorts you out.😞

[TallDarkAndHands...]

I’m on the HST, I like the HSTs.

Yep. You feel like you are beating the car!!!

[Andy Capp]

I guess it depends on the Company you work for. Mine has a glassdoor rating that is in the top 20 in the Country. Work Life balance is so important and I've always found delivering 9 hours of quality work is better than being over tired by working 15 hour days. Then again my company is cash rich and I am delivering a near 10 figure ERP system for them at the moment with MS with cutover from 5 legacy systems to 1 very soon.... So they want me close!!

I hope your place sorts you out.😞

I'll just lump it; only fools and horses work.

[Turin Machine]

My company is putting me up for 5 nights in a very nice hotel just down the road from my place of work. Be quite nice. I can have a lie in!!! They can stick the buses up there @ss.

Good man, Vive quasi cras moriturus. Oh for the return of a well padded expense account, a hotel bar and a lady of easy virtue to share it with. They truly were great times!

[Biker1]

My company is putting me up for 5 nights in a very nice hotel just down the road from my place of work. Be quite nice. I can have a lie in!!! They can stick the buses up there @ss.

Is that going to be for at least the other 8 other occurrences during this tear?

[Biker1]

I’m on the HST, I like the HSTs.

Make the most of it! They'll be gone by this time next year!

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Is that going to be for at least the other 8 other occurrences during this tear?

Yep.

[On the edge]

I guess it depends on the Company you work for. Mine has a glassdoor rating that is in the top 20 in the Country. Work Life balance is so important and I've always found delivering 9 hours of quality work is better than being over tired by working 15 hour days. Then again my company is cash rich and I am delivering a near 10 figure ERP system for them at the moment with MS with cutover from 5 legacy systems to 1 very soon.... So they want me close!!

I hope your place sorts you out.😞

'What profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his soul'.

Is this the same TDH who was extolling the virtues of excessively long working days not too many months ago? So drink deep at this well whilst you may but remember such things are transitory. Just like EDP, ERP is just fashion; tomorrow awaits.

[Andy Capp]

Perhaps they should rename the 0747, with “Mint Chocolate Thins” as it is usually ‘after eight’.

[On the edge]

Perhaps they should rename the 0747, with “Mint Chocolate Thins” as it is usually ‘after eight’.

Well, Mr C. you at least have your freedom, not for you the 'employee hostel' (no matter how dressed up) or the need bow to the latest corporate creed.

[je suis Charlie]

Well, Mr C. you at least have your freedom, not for you the 'employee hostel' (no matter how dressed up) or the need bow to the latest corporate creed.

No indeed, thank God he's free to scramble for space on overcrowded public transport every day to get to his slave wage job at someone else's demand. And, here's the best bit, he's free to do this every day of his working life!. Ah, life's sweet.
Recedite, plebes!

[On the edge]

No indeed, thank God he's free to scramble for space on overcrowded public transport every day to get to his slave wage job at someone else's demand. And, here's the best bit, he's free to do this every day of his working life!. Ah, life's sweet.
Recedite, plebes!

For the moment. ... disruptions like this have a great record in prompting innovative behaviour.

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Well, Mr C. you at least have your freedom, not for you the 'employee hostel' (no matter how dressed up) or the need bow to the latest corporate creed.

id rather stay in a nice hotel than spend 7 hours a day of "freedom" on the bus and train. My company gave me a choice. Its nice to be consulted.

[TallDarkAndHands...]

Perhaps they should rename the 0747, with “Mint Chocolate Thins” as it is usually ‘after eight’.

Get up earlier you lazy s0d!!! 😂
The earlier trains seem to be running ok.

[On the edge]

id rather stay in a nice hotel than spend 7 hours a day of "freedom" on the bus and train. My company gave me a choice. Its nice to be consulted.

Interesting 'choice' stay at home or stay where we tell you .... but don't be late! Must admit, after a couple of years of significant rail disruption it's an odd project that hadn't put in sufficient contingency, but as you say, if you are can rich, it's easier to 'manage' the staff or wage slaves as JSC has it.

[On the edge]

Get up earlier you lazy s0d!!! 😂
The earlier trains seem to be running ok.

Has the corporate fitness advisor got you lot out of bed in your 'rest weeks' TDH? That will be next step - nice 'compulsory' run first thing - enjoy!

[Andy Capp]

Whether or not I deserve my experience doesn’t remove the fact GWR are running a Shoite service at the moment. It has been officially late every time I’ve used it this month. At least it was so late today that it made choosing the next one easier.

[On the edge]

Whether or not I deserve my experience doesn’t remove the fact GWR are running a Shoite service at the moment. It has been officially late every time I’ve used it this month. At least it was so late today that it made choosing the next one easier.

The real trouble is that there is nothing to stop them. Railways are an oligopoly and so they can extract whatever they can for the lowest possible input; basic economics. Can't blame them for that. However, in the absence of a real market and real competition. The Government appointed a Regulator; he's clearly failed but no one is calling for his replacement, so I'm not convinced you'll see a solution. Driverless vehicles longer term perhaps.