Sleeping worker

[Toodles McGinty]

Did anyone notice the network rail worker
fast asleep in his van Sunday
morning 10.12 . on Portland St.
Hell , he's probably on £25+ per hour
what's the problem . Joe public pays for it.

As another poster pointed out, take a look in the House of Commons, or the Lords. On a damned site more than £25 an hour.

You want to get angry about an injustice, start with that one.

[salus.populi]

All persons on benefits should sign once or twice
a week at different times on different days.
Smell the coffee please.
Working you more often you have to be there
at 8 am ish you can't stay in bed and better off.

You've posted that illiterate unintelligible statement twice. I've no idea what it means.

[Ceam]

Did anyone notice the network rail worker
fast asleep in his van Sunday
morning 10.12 . on Portland St.
Hell , he's probably on £25+ per hour
what's the problem . Joe public pays for it.

Just sound like a lot of assumptions made by you TBH. Maybe when you come back with some facts this could be an interesting conversation.

[Snig's foot]

Did anyone notice the network rail worker
fast asleep in his van Sunday
morning 10.12 . on Portland St.
Hell , he's probably on £25+ per hour
what's the problem . Joe public pays for it.

That's one hull of a leap by you to guess that he was 'on duty' at the time.
I frequently fell asleep at the end of my shift, either in my car or the works van, with good reason: I was too tired to drive home. So I would get a couple of hours sleep then be fit enough to drive home. This isn't idle speculation by you, it's malevolent. You know no facts whatsoever, but decide to air your 'views' on a public forum, it's called 'fake news', but thanks for nothing.

[roughjustice]

£25+ an hour????

37 Hr week...£48,000 a year?

Very much doubt it lo

[KissThis]

Did anyone notice the network rail worker
fast asleep in his van Sunday
morning 10.12 . on Portland St.
Hell , he's probably on £25+ per hour
what's the problem . Joe public pays for it.

Maybe this person had just finished a very draining shift. Maybe he was feeling ill. Maybe, regardless of cause, he simply felt to tired to drive safely, and because of his choice to sleep rather than drive, a beloved member, or beloved members of someones family (yours included) are fit and well today, or alive even, because he chose to sleep, not drive.
Maybe a person such as the one you speak of, is well worth being paid £50ph by Joe public?
Just a thought

[Alikado]

More likely that he was employed as a driver to move staff and or equipment around and he was just awaiting his next task. When you see gang working they often have several different employers, much work is subcontracted these days.

[Little Londoner]

More likely that he was employed as a driver to move staff and or equipment around and he was just awaiting his next task. When you see gang working they often have several different employers, much work is subcontracted these days.

Correct, many years ago I drove a relief crew up to Scotland for 0200 working on Beattock whilst they did the job I got my head down when they had finished I drove them back. And funnily enough I was on nowhere near £25 an hour as the author of this rant alleges.

[gsgsgs]

Driving whilst tired is a killer and can come over you anytime for no reason (apart from the obvious )

I was driving home form Scotland a few years ago, I'd had a good nights sleep the night before but as I was driving down the M6 I had this sudden feeling of tiredness, opening the window or turning the radio up doesn't work.

I pulled into a service station, shut my eyes and before I knew it a couple of hours had gone by, I had something to eat and a coffee and continued my journey feeling fine had I not pulled over for a rest I'm sure I would have had an accident.