Metronet
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Overview
Failed PPP still marginally in charge of running and maintaining all but three London Underground lines.
Fell into administration recently due to staggering mismanagement, but thanks to combination of taxpayers money and huffing and puffing, is just about still able to provide the shaky, perma-delayed service the tube prides itself on.
Metronet and the RMT
In triumphant partnership with rail worker's union RMT, led by raving communist Bob Crow, Metronet workers recently decided to embark on two fun-filled 72 hour strikes. The upshot of said strike is that pretty much every Underground line stops working apart from the three run by a company without an arsehole/elbow blind-spot, with the added bonus that if anything breaks on these three on a bit of line owned by Metronet, it won't get fixed.
Yeah! Power to the people! What is it they want?
Difficult to tell. What is certain is that transport oligarchs TFL and London mayor Ken Livingstone have caved on pretty much every demand, apart from the ability to pretty much guarantee everyone jobs and pensions for life (i.e. predict the future). Friki isn't sure precisely which jobs come with a 100% guarantee of job security, but it's guessing not a single one. Anyhoo, perhaps realising the ridiculous nature of this final demand, all but one of the groups of Metronet workers decided the strikes should be cancelled. However, the final one, led by the power-crazed Crow, decided they really wanted a few days off, and so the strike went ahead, plunging London into apocalyptic commuter-based carnage.
So? Just use a bus, you wimps!
True. With a prevailing wind and crossed fingers, it should in theory only take around half an hour extra to complete any journey to work by bus rather than tube. Unfortunately, the strike coincided with most of central London being dug up for various bits of roadworks. Also, to add to the chaos, most commuters decided to choose to use their cars instead of the bus. There is a scene in an episode of Family Guy where Peter explains to Brian how he avoided telling Lois that he has been sacked by instead calling her fat. Brian's response to this is to continually smack Peter with a rolled up newspaper whilst going "No! No! No! No!". This is what Friki felt like doing to every person in a car the other morning.
Overall
Friki is now looking forward to another two days of having to leave for work at 7 in the morning and not returning until after 8 in the evening. The long bus rides and sleepless bleary-eyed deskwork in-between gives it so much time to plot precisely how it will track down every single one of the striking gomers and force them to say sorry to every single commuter over and over again whilst doing the MC Hammer dance naked in the middle of Hyde Park.
Revenge will be swift and humiliating, Metronet.
Friki Update
Having achieved precisely nothing, the RMT and Metronet called off the strike after a day and a half. Thanks to the quaintness of the 150-year-old Underground, it still took another 24 hours before everything was working to the usual low standard again.
But don't think Friki has forgotton this, Mr Crow.
