Paging Sweller, BCB et al

I've just seen a piece on Woss about a new film called "3 and out" -
synopsis: "A fledgling underground train driver, who has already had two
suicide jumpers, needs only one more death to be allowed to retire with full
pension. This sets him on a mission to find someone will nothing to live for
who will be the third victim. However, after meeting the suitable candidate,
the pair begin to see a different outlook on life."

Is the "3 and out" thing true, or just made-up, cinematic bollocks?

 

Bollocks

 

I suspected as much.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

Tube drivers have three bollocks? Well, you live and learn.

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That's a different thing altogether and we've been heavily involved in
competency development - "habitually SPAD" isn't quite the phrase as it
involves a lot more...

One mainline rail company instigated a one SPAD and you're out policy.
We congratulated the MD on his foresight as that policy would certainly
stop anymore SPADs. He looked smug until we pointed out that if he did
that none of his fucking trains would move. Ergo no SPADs.

 

[snip]

I don't suppose you have any contacts at First Capital Connect, who
you could ask (in connection with their line from Moorgate up through
Finsbury Park and Ally Pally):

"Why The **** Are None of the Cunting Fucking Station Signs Lit Up at
Night So You Can Tell What Cunting Station the FUcking Bastardly Train
is Actually Fucking At?"

cheers.

 

I do and I'll make enquiries.

 

Brilliant!

It's not even as if you can count stops, because some of the trains
stop at all the stops, some at most, and some take a big jump between
Finsbury Park and Palmer's Green.

 

YM "Where the ****'s my fucking train?"

 

My thoughts turn inevitably to WWI aeroplanes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/SPAD_XIII_040510-F-1234P-019.jpg

 

That's what I was saying when the tube was running all to shit and I
was stood at Knightsbridge station this evening along with what seemed
like about a thousand other disgruntled passengers.

 

That's normal, the cunts never look happy.

 

Fucking Carry A Cunting Torch.
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And stick them up your shiter."

 

"huh?" <fx:scratches arse, then wanders away to make a cup of tea>

 

I don't actually.

 

what, and shine it out the train window? That's hardly going to work
given the problem is that it's light inside the drain and pitch black
on the station platform.

 

Colour me surprised.

 

If the employer, in a collective bargaining arrangement, has a set of
procedures to train and maintain employees' safety critical competency
and they chose not to implement them because they're utterly shit
managers what do you suggest doing?

 

If the managers are so incompetent then surely any such
evidence would see them dismissed pretty sharpish.

 

Why would they be dismissed? They argue that they are managing risk by
removing the risk (i.e. dismissal). In a very risk averse and 'my hands
are clean' liability culture they take the easy option.

Actually, following the agreed procedures properly is easier but they're
thick rather than incompetent.