So bob crow was in the metro today, which sounds like a bad mix to start with.
It gets worse:
http://e-edition.metro.co.uk/2009/09/16/10.html (just use any old addy, its instant access)
When asked, what is a fair salary for a train driver, he appears to suggest £50k.
Most teachers don't get that, and have far more responsability.
Then when asked if by his own definition of money not having to do with been working class but in fact:
"If he or she has to come to work and take orders from an employer, they are still a worker".
OK. So he is then asked if a banker in the city earning £1M is still a worker?
"The people who camble money are not workers. They are part of the ruling class."
Intresting Mr Crow. Bankers work for their immeidate boss, trading in areas that are controlled and inspected by their senoirs. Surely if your not chair of the board, you have to be a worker?
He then goes on to completely miss-understand the idea of an economy, workers normally get less pay, when a company makes less money and more pay when the good times happen. Espesually those who are equity incentivised to work too. (like most city boys)
Up until my current job, I was always a worker, my immaturity and general geek personality ment i never wanted to be a people (yuckie awful things) manager. Even when I was running multi million dollar projects, I was by his definition a worker, just getting things done, code written, hardware designed etc, combine this with my basic salary been below his idea of the worth of a train driver.
What he fails to address, is why someone like me isn't driving trains, i'm a geek, so therefore would love driving trains, i've still not forgiven my parents for not letting me set up my train set when we moved when i was 11. I'd absolutely love it. Compared to writing software to watch the intersection of curves whilst having to learn yet more about statistics. Not to mention the massively shorter hours, health n safety wouldn't let you make a train driver do more than what, 60 hours a week? I was doing over 80 at one point in my old role.
The company I used to work at are still having problem finding/retaining staff, even offering double the basic I had. So they will have to offer more, target garrenteed bonuses perhaps.
London underground have some insain number of applications for been a train driver. Try it, send you CV in and see how far you get!
That means the job is overpaid, or over benefited, or just too attractive.


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