Pipes, Tubes and Strings…….

Well fucking well….the Big Chief has resigned for “personal reasons” and "to pursue other career interests". Interesting when you consider how may careers he fucked up here during his tenure. Interesting also when you consider good people were devalued, humiliated and "eased" out of the company. The Big Chief reports to the Head Chief who in turn reports to the European Head Chief who in turn reports to The Global World President (El Presidente). Apparently The Big Chief worked for The Head Chief some time ago and they hated each other then, and it seems things are no different today. Head Chief is a yank, Big Chief is Canadian so methinks there might be some traditional geographical rivalry here. After all Head Chief’s position is just that notch above Big Chief, which loosely relates to the relationship between the good ol’ US of A and Canada….yeah alright the gap is much bigger on the world stage whatever Canadians might like to think. Anyway Big Chief was a fucking ignorant rude, ill mannered, foul tempered pig of a man, whereas Head Chief seems very…….LA West Coast….almost a greying hippy. He seems very calm and one can imagine him meditating, or passing a spliff amongst his senior team. Apparently when Head Chief was appointed (6 months ago) Big Chief found out via the internal company intranet…errr exactly the same way as the rest of us plebs! The proverbial shit hit the fan then and Big Chief spent the day in his office with the door locked, bottom lip unfurled the length of the office and with his phone switched off. For this sulk alone, added to the obvious inferiority complex he has (or will get) by being usurped yet again by a representative of Uncle Sam this miserable piece of ignorant scum gets full membership of the GoGb (see postings passim). Welcome aboard Big Chief. If I ever see you after you’ve left…..expect some intense fucking verbal abuse. I hope it fucking hurts.

That means yet another re-org as Apprentice Big Chief takes over shortly and will undoubtedly want to “mark his territory” by putting his mark of Cain upon our somewhat unjolly and demotivated department. Another change for The Company’s High Tech Pipes, Tubes and Strings department. Will this affect Jack…who knows? But if I were the Sandman or the Sandman’s boss (yep that makes me that low in the organisation) hereinafter known as The Godfather, then I might be worried because they will be under the microscope first.

Tubes of a different kind now………….some comment on the tube strike, Bob Crow (Big Chief of the RMT – does that stand for Robbers, Muggers and Twats?) is a fucking prat and a Millwall fan to boot. He calls strikes for shite reasons such as “public safety”…or “the future of our transport system” ….yeah dress it up as a public spirited action eh Bob! When he uses these bullshit reasons all I can think of is he’s a liar and a wanker. If he just came straight out and said “I’m a tub thumping socialist radical trouble making bastard who wants to make a name for myself” then that would be fine, but to hang this shite on the tenuous premise of being public spirited is just complete bollocks. However, in defence of this strike I have to defend the RMT and Mr Brainless Crow. Striking for a decent days pay is well within the law and is justified. For too long in this country we have doffed our caps to the Government or Big Companies and allowed them to shaft us in order to deliver “shareholder value” or cut costs. Britain sold its workers souls down the river under Thatch and New Labour Nannies have done fuck all to re-dress the balance. So, like the French do, I applaud strikes done for the apparently selfish reason of “more pay” . Its time we re-discovered our balls in this country instead of meekly accepting everything the government (national and local) and our employers do to us. Bob “brainless” Crow…I take my hat off to you and your Union on this occasion.

Fucked your journey to work has it? Some solutions to get over this happening again

1.) Get your employer to install Broadband and then use VPN technology to work from home as if you were in the office..its both cheap and dead easy
2.) Buy a pushbike to do the 5 mile journey to work
3.) Get a job outside London (like I did)
4.) Walk
5.) Use the overground railways
6.) Use buses…there are fucking thousands of them
7.) Throw a sickie
8.) Take a well earned days holiday
9.) By a scooter or motorbike
10.) Walk down the tube routes…Ok that’s impractical…electrocution and all that……….wait……..why not shut the tubes down and convert them to well lit, warm underground footpaths and cycle paths! Blimey we could have underground shops and even underground flats for those die-hard commuters. Can anyone think of an objection to this? Apart from making a few mangy old rats homeless this seems an environmentally friendly and cheap to run alternative.

Fuck me I really like that last idea! Apart from the fact that I actually enjoy riding the Tube no matter how desperate it is getting. In fact, my real view is that we should extend the tube to all Towns and Cities, incorporated with systems similar to the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) and then link all the cities with High Speed (and I mean 150mph plus) train links run by a nationalised organisation at no profit, but as a public service and yes….heavily subsidized by taxpayers like they do in France. Life is not all about profit.

Later, Grocerjack