Tube strike, London

Average for who? and yes it is seen as a semi-skilled job by people like you , but I wouldn't be surprised if you were totally ignorant to what the job actually entails....

i have friends who work at TFL and it isn't balistics, i have a much deeper hatred of overpaid powerpoint flicking buzz word screamers that dance around in suits. they add no value to live. i could name hundreds of careers that are dead to society but this is about a group of people under a union demanding more money at a time when everybody is under pressure in a shared ecconimical down turn. the way this group go about negotiating is walking out and causing havoc... twats simple as!

According to the article below, people are queuing up to be train drivers, and rightly so a worthwile job, serving the community...IMHO this is exactly how it should be and people whose jobs are vital should be more highly valued, not treated with the prejudice shown by some on this forum.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002/jun/16/wageslaves.careers

Good, then let them take the job of those that strike.

Thats so idealistic it hurts Winston! of course we would all want that but a man picking random numbers of a PC monitor losing milllions at a bank gets paid millions and a social worker changing lives scrapes by.. do you now think those that choose the job had their earnings in mind?
They do a job for the satisfaction it gives them, not for the piles of money they have to spend on the little time they have to them selves.