innsertnamehere
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Oh no worries I agree, I was just meaning to give a bit of info on the stouffville line.
RE People from other lines using Lakeshore: Anecdotally, I can say that this is true, especially for stations like Clarkson and Port Credit. Just last weekend I met up with some friends at the Jays game, all of whom are from Brampton, who drove to Port Credit and took the train from there instead of taking the GO bus from Brampton, because the drive + train was both faster and cheaper.
I was on a Toronto bound trip on Lakeshore West on Thursday, so I was surprised anyone was even in there. The man was talking on his cellphone to someone complaining about other staff at what I guess is the dispatch office. "F***" was about 50% of his vocabulary.
He also mentioned he was recently asked to move a train with a fuel leak, which he thought was extremely dangerous, and he said his concerns were ignored. He then joked there was a 1 in 10 chance the train would have exploded and vapourized a platform of passengers.
Probably hyperbole, but I don't think that's something passengers want to hear.
Fair enough. But hang on - talking on a cellphone while operating a train?You cannot be serious. Do you need to get out in public more or something? My experience is that you can encounter excessive swearing at any time & any place and not just while sitting around the cab car area of GO train
And what exactly is wrong about him voicing his concerns about moving a train with a fuel leak? That's quite a legitimate concern and its fully his right to note them. Perhaps if you don't want to hear it maybe you shouldn't be eavesdropping in on peoples conversations? I can hear passengers talking loudly and clearly behind me all the time when I'm operating from the cab. Yet somehow I'm able to magically not pay any attention to what it is they're going on about. I don't suppose that's something that I alone am capable of. Or better yet, don't sit by the cab area if the conversations going on in there disturb you that much - because we frequently have those kinds of safety related discussions.
You cannot be serious. Do you need to get out in public more or something? My experience is that you can encounter excessive swearing at any time & any place and not just while sitting around the cab car area of GO train
Do GO Train engineers/staff not understand that the operations booth in the cab car is not soundproof?
I was on a Toronto bound trip on Lakeshore West on Thursday, so I was surprised anyone was even in there. The man was talking on his cellphone to someone complaining about other staff at what I guess is the dispatch office. "F***" was about 50% of his vocabulary. He also mentioned he was recently asked to move a train with a fuel leak, which he thought was extremely dangerous, and he said his concerns were ignored. He then joked there was a 1 in 10 chance the train would have exploded and vapourized a platform of passengers.
Probably hyperbole, but I don't think that's something passengers want to hear.
The UI on the ticket vending machines is absolutely awful. Even if you know exactly what you want, it takes probably a minute to go through the entire sequence, when it should be about 15-20 seconds. It really needs a redesign.
Mountain out of a mole-hill then. Someone should have simply knocked on the door and complained about the noise, if it bothered them ... if they didn't do that, it couldn't have been that serious.Toronto bound movements on the lakeshore west line operate with the locomotive leading, and cab car trailing. Which means that whoever in there wasn't directly operating the train. Very likely could have been a third crew member, lots of trainee conductors on the radios these days.
Fair enough. But hang on - talking on a cellphone while operating a train?
Or do they have two people in the cab?
Mountain out of a mole-hill then. Someone should have simply knocked on the door and complained about the noise, if it bothered them ... if they didn't do that, it couldn't have been that serious.
None of us other than Jonny5 can actually know how much swearing there was .....but are you suggesting that this is appropriate behaviour for any employee while on the job? If you walked up to the counter at Starbucks and heard two employees in a conversation where they were cursing and swearing repeatedly within hearing range of the customer....you think that would be ok? I can tell you that if we had customers waiting in the lobby of our building and one of our receptionists was cursing on the phone with her friend....we would be firing them (after appropriate warnings of course).
You cannot be serious. Do you need to get out in public more or something? My experience is that you can encounter excessive swearing at any time & any place and not just while sitting around the cab car area of GO train
And what exactly is wrong about him voicing his concerns about moving a train with a fuel leak? That's quite a legitimate concern and its fully his right to note them. Perhaps if you don't want to hear it maybe you shouldn't be eavesdropping in on peoples conversations? I can hear passengers talking loudly and clearly behind me all the time when I'm operating from the cab. Yet somehow I'm able to magically not pay any attention to what it is they're going on about. I don't suppose that's something that I alone am capable of. Or better yet, don't sit by the cab area if the conversations going on in there disturb you that much - because we frequently have those kinds of safety related discussions.
You can't be serious, can you? Swearing like that and bad mouthing your coworkers publicaly in earshot of your customers is unprofessional and ignorant. You can hear talk like that in many places. You also can't hear it in many places because you would just be fired on site.The guy was an idiot for doing it.
I'm sure the crew dispatcher can decide for himself or herself if any further action need be taken.