On 2015\04\29 20:05, Richard wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:44:40 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:40:36 -0500,
wrote:
Somebody must have been working hard on him in the meantime. I can see a
case for apologising for the immoderate wording but on the substance?
Well I suspect certain senior people in Go Ahead have whispered in his
ears. They're a major contractor to TfL and the Chief Exec was the
former TfL Head of Surface Transport so there's a close relationship
there. [...]
And there's the fact that, well, he *should* have apologised. I'm not
sure what he was thinking, and now it seems neither does he. A bit of
humility would have been in order, I imagine it is possible to come
away from an encounter with TfL with nobody smelling of roses. An
apology is not a bad or weak thing, it's the inevitable occasional
result with someone who says what he thinks, IMO a refreshing trait
for a boss.
Unless he's only saying it because he's got his eye on controlling
someone else's property. Note that he hasn't called Uber "****" for
taking hundreds of pounds out of people's bank accounts for non-existent
journeys, even though that is a hundred times worse than SouthEastern's
crimes, and TfL is actually responsible for looking after Uber's
customers, unlike SouthEastern's customers.