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Nik lives in Essex, UK and works in London as the editor of MacUser magazine. The posts and comments on this site do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions of values of his employers.
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Lousy tubes this evening. The drivers have quietly gone off on strike, I think. Hunting around on the web reveals perhaps why.
More than 50,000 Tube commuters face the prospect of strikes on their line in a row over a train driver [sacked after being caught] playing squash.
[London Mayor Ken] Livingstone claimed that since the sacked driver started working on the Underground in 1998, he had been off sick 20% of the time.
“On this occasion he was caught playing squash when he had been off work with a sprained ankle for months. The Underground
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One Response to “Down the Tubes”
Oh that Bob Crow really winds me up, he always has done, ‘Slackers apologist’ that’s what he is. Sack them both.
• Posted at 12:45 am on November 15th, 2003 by Kev.