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[Longman]

Had an absolute farce yesterday, got to Picadilly at 9.30am to try and get some replacement tickets issued as my train tickets hadn't come through the post.  After spending all week on the phone to bloody India trying to sort it I was then angry to find that I couldn't get issued any at the station and therefore had to pay again, which was another 60 quid!  After all the hassle of trying to sort it and being pushed from pillar to post we then bought another fare and ended up missing the train as it left as we were buying our tickets from the machine!

So off we toddled into Manchester with 12 cans and some corned beef butties.

Never using the f**king trainline.com again, it's an absolute joke and then when you encounter a problem you get some Indian woman who is sat in an office in Mumbai reading her answers off a script!

[taxi Phil]

Had an absolute farce yesterday, got to Picadilly at 9.30am to try and get some replacement tickets issued as my train tickets hadn't come through the post.  After spending all week on the phone to bloody India trying to sort it I was then angry to find that I couldn't get issued any at the station and therefore had to pay again, which was another 60 quid!  After all the hassle of trying to sort it and being pushed from pillar to post we then bought another fare and ended up missing the train as it left as we were buying our tickets from the machine!

So off we toddled into Manchester with 12 cans and some corned beef butties.

Never using the f**king trainline.com again, it's an absolute joke and then when you encounter a problem you get some Indian woman who is sat in an office in Mumbai reading her answers off a script!

It is, however, no bigger a joke than the Royal Mail, through the fault of which (or more accurately of its pathetic misguided Trades Union) you didn't get the bloody tickets inthe first place. I've stopped using the post completely over the past month. Don't enter competitions any more, make fuller use of Email, pay my bills online. Sorry if any of you out there work in the postal sector, but when the Christmas Card backlash kicks in the Royal Mail will be dead in the water - just like the mines, the steel industry, and motor manufacture in this country were before it. And ALL of them killed by the restictive practices the Trade Union movement are so fond of. No wonder this bloody country's up to it's nostrils in the brown and pungent -  I used to be a Socialist, but the "Labour Party" wouldn't recognise Socialism if it walked up and kicked it in its collective bollocks ! Rant over.

[taxi Phil]

By the way, I haven't lost sight of the fact that this is a football forum - but the general malaise that is strangling us knocks on into this area much too easily.

[Mick]

By the way, I haven't lost sight of the fact that this is a football forum - but the general malaise that is strangling us knocks on into this area much too easily.

Don't knock the Trade Unions mate. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't be able to watch any football - all your money would be needed to feed your family and pay your rent and you would be too damm tired anyway after working your 96 hour week. Still, you could look forward to your one week's holiday every year and an early death due to industrial illness

[Sarf London Alty]

I though under the circumstances we played very well yesterday. The new lad from United clearly was lacking in confidence but we must give him time.

We rarely troubled them (as expected) but the committment, work rate and spirit shown by the lads was top drawer and hopefully with two weeks til the next League game now Denham can get fit and with Senior back we should have much more to offer going forward. Oxford didn't overly impress me but I think this will be their year, they have a very good squad and manager and do what they have to.

It will be good for us to draw a line under October and move on, credit to the lads who played for us yesterday, I think we can move forward again now.

[joe]

By the way, I haven't lost sight of the fact that this is a football forum - but the general malaise that is strangling us knocks on into this area much too easily.

Don't knock the Trade Unions mate. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't be able to watch any football - all your money would be needed to feed your family and pay your rent and you would be too damm tired anyway after working your 96 hour week. Still, you could look forward to your one week's holiday every year and an early death due to industrial illness

Going off my own experiences of Trade Unions they are a complete waste of space!

[Jezza]

The post office is a service and should not be forced to make money...that's why it's called a service and not a business....therein lies the root of the problem.

We need a proper labour govt every 4 years nationalising everything and then a proper tory govt privatising it.

[taxi Phil]

By the way, I haven't lost sight of the fact that this is a football forum - but the general malaise that is strangling us knocks on into this area much too easily.

Don't knock the Trade Unions mate. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't be able to watch any football - all your money would be needed to feed your family and pay your rent and you would be too damm tired anyway after working your 96 hour week. Still, you could look forward to your one week's holiday every year and an early death due to industrial illness

As a self employed taxi driver I work over 80 hours a week anyway, and I haven't had a holiday this year. The possibility of contracting an industrial illness in the UK is much lower than it used to be. This is because we have practically no industry any more. For this, we should thank the Trades Unions ?

[seasonticket]

Taxi Phil, please stick to footballing matters. I almost always agree with what you say. But on the subject of Trades union you are talking throgh your backside.

[AltyTunnelSteward]

Just had an extremely unpleasant meeting with my Line Manager and our HR manager. Fortunately I was, as has been the case right through my current'situation', accompanied by my Union Rep without whose help and advice I might now be unemployed and/or face down in the Irwell

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

The union which represents employees at my place of work (although not my actual company) is nothing more than a haven for the work-shy and utterly bone-idle. Their members devote their entire existence to finding reasons not to work and waste countless man hours skiving and hiding so they don't have to do any work. what can the company do about it? Absolutely nothing, because these scumbags are so well protected by their wonderful union they can pretty much get away scot free with anything.

Unions have a place in the workplace, but all too frequently they are abused by lazy idiots who give them a bad name.