Good morning all. Anyone who lives in or has ever been to the UK will know London has a large underground train network (London Underground) I am a contract worker on the underground, I install signal cabling, and this morning my team caused havoc. Heres the scoop: There were ten of us installing cable, and two of us lifted an airline (steel tube about 6" in diameter) to place cable under it. BOOM The airline split, and did a mexican wave up through the tunnel, ripping the massive brackets off the wall as it went. In total, 100 metres of airline had separated from the wall and was now lying on the tracks. Oops. After lots and lots of paperwork, we found out that the 'Victoria Line' will not be operating today, as it will take a day (and about £50,000 to repair). Then we found out that it ripped lots of original signal cable out, for the 'Circle line, district line, metropolitan line, and northern lines' Thats a LOT of stations, and many millions of pounds of work. And I got paid 5 hours overtime to do the report So anyone stuck in it today..... My bad, sorry Andy
UPDATE: total lines affected were: Northern Line District Line Circle Line Victoria Line Piccadilly Line Metropolitan Line heh. all in a days work
Sounds interesting but http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/ reports no such delays and the victoria line is open?
Most of it has been sorted now, but it was on the site this morning. Anyway, the 5 year contract was dropped, and 35 people (including myself) are jobless. shit.
nothing was said on the news, and on the travel info site, they put it down to a 'late engineering finish' but they cant exactly put 'an old airline ruptured and destroyed the other cabling' can they? hehe Anyways my agency seems to have found me some other work so I should be ok Andy
Classic as a fellow worker of the contract commuity a salute you! I mangaged to cause approx 1000 pounds of damage to a certain big plane by simply snapping an earth stud.
Yeh it is easy to snap an earth esp when they are made so dam cheaply. Best thing was the team back stabber came on declaring how she have to fix my mistake. Then she snapped one HA HA Maybe big buses but im raking the cash in
Turns out I'm not fired, just suspended till tonight (on full pay) and don't worry Paulo, I'm on the Vic line again ;p
What a classic!!!! I am so glad that I ride a hairdryer to work :lol: Not me but the same hairdryer :lol:
