RE: MONDAY22 Jun 2025 11:13
Good grief. I knew this period was one where I shouldn't really give the board a look in. The ignorance about the ASX listing process is startling. Then we have divisive comments about politics and as a sure fire sign that people need someone to bash we have posts about train drivers. Well on that one I will briefly bite. I was one until a couple of months ago. The perception appears to be that is an overpaid easy money type of profession. Just pushing or pulling a lever right? In reality, if my experience is anything to go by, working conditions have markedly deteriorated and working diagrams have needlessly increased fatigue with wildly differing start times, turn lengths and uneven work breaks. Poorly maintained rolling stock or track meaning delays and failures are a daily occurrence. Lack of suitable toilet facilities - and when you do have access to one they would are probably in a worse condition than the bogs at Glastonbury. One person operation. No guard. Carrying up to one thousand passengers and you are the only person in charge. If things go wrong - be it a train fault, a fight, a jumper, a trespasser, an infrastructure failure, a fallen tree (all of which anyone with just a few years under their belt is likely to encounter) you are the sole person to deal with all the in cab alarms, the multiple passengers telling you all hell is breaking loose, the medical emergencies, trying to prevent people egressing on to a live railway, juggling calls from the signaller and your control while people hammer on the internal cab door when you've been up since 3am and could really do with that toilet break. Your train has gone into "load shed" and all comms have gone down as you are stranded in the heat awaiting rescue, so you have to try to reassure angry and panicked passengers face to face while you get abuse and threats. For the decent wage and pension I'm not sure how many people are truly up to the job. Like I say. The ignorance of things GGP and most else discussed on here of late is truly startling.