18-21 April - Perth
In Perth for the week.
posted by Connex Whinger at 3:45 pm
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
About Me
- Name: Connex Whinger
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
An extract from my first post best sums up what this is all about.
"Perception is reality" was one of the many glib phrases my ex-boss used to regularly use. Well my reality is that I have never had a full week of the train that I want to catch running on time. Let me rephrase that somewhat inelegant sentence - I don't believe that of the ten scheduled trains that I would wish to catch in any given week, all ten have ever run as scheduled. Ever. In over four years of commuting on the Sandringham line, my perception is that at least one train per week is either delayed or cancelled.
That's probably a pretty bold call, so to turn my perception into reality, I plan to keep a diary for a while and we'll see how often Connex can deliver me a full week of reliable services. Yes, I know that's a little self-centred, but isn't that the whole point of blogging?
Previous Posts
- Summary 10-14 April
- Thu 13 April - Same again...
- Tue-Wed 11-12 April - Perth...
- Mon 10 April - Off-peak no better...?
- Summary 3-7 April
- Fri 7 April - More on overcrowding...
- Thu 6 April - Reasons for delays...
- Wed 5 April - Keeping doors clear...
- Tue 4 April - Happy birthday CW blog...
- Mon 3 April - Sick...
22 Comments:
the met,
"a lot of people where holding doors again"... rubbish! I have been catching trains for 20 years and i can count on 1 hand the amount of times i have seen people holding doors open. Its also delayed not delaied!
He might not ly, nor lie! But my experience from inside the train is the opposite. I can only recall a few occasion of people holding doors and certainly cannot remember a delay of more than 10 or 20 seconds...
Hey nice site
Do anyone here get off at South Yarra station in the morning?
Connex is now making everybody validate the ticket, instead of letting us through. By god... its is really slowing us from getting out of the station, which is furiously frustrating.
Which brings me to an single opinion about connex customer service.
"Connex Sux"
10 minutes? Your a joke the met
"Don't lecture me on my speling!"
'spelling'
"10 minutes? Your a joke the met"
'You're a joke, the met.'
/pedant
Actually, while I'm on the topic of gramatically challenged people, lets have a look at the letter I received from Connex today which accompanied my yearly Metcard:
The letter contains a number of grammatical errors which have been annoying me for a good couple of hours now and what better place to whinge about Connex than here? :)
1) "Please Find enclosed your new yearly Metcard."
Why is 'Find' a proper noun?
2) "[...]customers will still need to validate their Yearly Metcard at the commencement of every journey to ensure that their Yearly Metcard is valid for that Journey."
A) 'Yearly' isn't a proper noun. If they wish to use "Yearly Metcard" as the name of the product (which I still wouldn't be all that comforable with) then why didn't they capitalise it on the first line (see point 1).
B) Why is 'Journey' treated as a proper noun at the end of the sentence yet not in the middle of it?
3) "It is now not necessary to carry a Photo ID when using your Yearly Metcard. However, it is advisable to carry some form of identification such as a driver's licence or Medicare card to prove your identity should you be requested to do so by an authorised Public Transport employee."
A) 'Photo ID' isn't a proper noun.
B) Neither is 'Yearly' (see 2A above).
C) However is a conjunction so it shouldn't be used to start a sentence. The comma after however would be better placed where the period is currently. I believe the whole paragraph is shit.
No wonder they can't run a metropolitan train network, they struggle with capitalisation!
Well, it seems our friend Chris/The Met is in good company then. He may have an excellent career with Connex ahead of him should he ever pass VCE!
Re: South Yarra - yes, it's an inconvience.
But it means reduced fare evasion, which means more money for Connex, who in turn can then invest money into fixing some of the problems that are causing cancellations and/or delays
Or higher dividends! I am not so confident in any intention of Connex to invest, they rather complain with the government and ask for more money.
Got to agree with Anon the Pedant... while I'll admit that my posts are occasionally less then perfect in the grammar/spelling arena, my excuse is my brain works faster than my fingers. At least I do understand the structure of a sentence and I only use words I know the meaning of and can spell.
I'm not that bothered about spelling and grammar in an informal place such as this, unless it makes it too hard to understand the intended meaning - something that appears to be common to many of Chris/The Met's posts.
But in business communication there's no excuse. Even if you're a total numpty, MS Word will at least highlight dubious sentence structures and dodgy spelling. What kind of cretin ignores such warnings in business correspondence?
Phil
I WILL REMIND, that "the met" posting ludicrous garbage above, is not the real Chris Tagle
I strongly advise people to ignore the immature behaviour
The 'real' The met carries no image for the time being
The induvidual lack any moral sense, and personally i find as a stain in this society an attention seeker.
http://whinginconnex.blogspot.com
Chris Tagle
When will common sense prevail.
And like i expected the imposter has followed suite, and done as I, and removed the image.
Supposedly you Mr Whinger, are more wiser to the fact THERE IS AN IMPOSTER. And unless you are as thick-headed as some others around here, i hope you realise the fact that this highly immature prank be deleted.
To ensure security and legitimate messaging; people can check the true identity, with the profile matching this address:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/15203043
any others displaying "The Met" with a different profile to the one stated above is false.
Real Met (or not)... who cares!
Chris do you really believe that anyone around here is interested in your opinion? Although I must admit at times you enticed a smile from me by your crusade to defend your beloved Connex. Why don't you stick with your buddies at railpage, it seems you are in better company there. Once you are grown up, you may join grown ups in there discussion, in the meantime go and play with you HO and pretend running a CTEnterprises.
Met = total tool
Don't know about everybody else, but I find the new The Met a lot more tolerable and entertaining than the original!
29 April, 2006 22:19:
anonymous = complete knob
Mr 13:02,
It's amazing that i want similar to what your views are: TRAINS ON TIME! Isn't that amazing; although with all this sh*tty gas-bagging and immaturity, it simply brings us practically now-where!
SO how about you just STFU, get a life, some friends and some common sense.
I merely try to make sense of all this Bull-dung here about "It's all COnnex's Fault" in many ways it is, but in MANY OTHER WAYS there is MORE to the picture, but youre all stuck up, with your head up your A**es! well some of you anyway.
Mr WHinger, and to everybody else, you will only see the end of me, when i see the end of what is here, or the event of a computer failure for me.
I will not let the effect of one moronic induvidual put me down.
Your really loosing it
Well little Chris lives really in a dream world:
Welcome to TRAK manufactur.
Australia's rail manufacturer. We provide rolling stock vehicle for rail. Our designs and concepts are second to none, and will provide the best for our customers in regards to economy, design and manufacture.
We are a company devoted to providing leading edge solutions for transportation construction.
He pretends that he is running a transport company. Soon he will make a takeover bid on Toll!
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Ha Ha very funny, only if there was a page for the worlds biggest d***-head and you'd get a post dedicated to you. You obviously see me as a threat, thinking you can shun me away by posting what a Google search brings you.
Bad Luck, im here to stay.
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Now that i look I remember it, i did it last year part of Web-Publishin elective. Entire site is from scratch.
Oh and I 'supposedly' Manufacture vehicles not operate them dumba** get your facts right.
If you can't get YOUR facts right, how does it make you seem credible.
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Oh and Mr anonymous, i haven't lost anything. Apart from the fact i have a false 'me' running around; so i haven't really lost anything. More or less 'gained' the irratabilty of an 90 year old.
Re: South Yarra - yes, it's an inconvience.
Anonymous 26 April, 2006 03:41.
Hey you might alway be up for Connex adoption too!
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nupty - IS NOT A WORD!
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Neither can a person be a tool.
tool - n - any device or implement used to carry out mechanical functions wether manually or by machine
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Anonymous @ 24 April, 2006 14:17
Sorry no-one cares unless it's against "The Met/Chris" because they they're usually arrogant and see him as a threat, and the occasional 'actual' error.
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