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May. 29th, 2006 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogI promised I wouldn't discuss Anime North until I finished writing something. Well... at the moment I'll say it was surprisingly fun. That's all I feel like talking about, as I am kinda cranky.
Right now, I'm stuck in the middle of a transit wild cat strike. It happens to start on the Monday of the week I'm commuting from Hamilton to North York and the strike kills half my route.
No one is 100% what the heck is going on.
First the rumours were that it was the drivers striking because of the mess with fare collection. Union rules now state that a driver doesn't have to collect a fare if a rider if they refuse, since it can endanger a driver's personal well being in some cases. However, upper management is against this.
Then we heard on the radio that it's a lockout by upper management.
Now the story I'm hearing is that it's janitors and subway track workers striking because their shifts are getting moved from day shifts to evening shifts.
I'm just one of probably thousands (700,000 in some reports) of people displaced at the moment. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the TTC usually. But, I'm too poor to afford a car at the moment and don't have a full license anyway. Personally, I just want to get to work and get the services I paid for through taxes and my Might-As-Well-Call-It-$100-A-Month Metropass. This means I'm stuck.
As it stands, I need to use the GO Train to get from Hamilton to Toronto, the Yonge subway to get to Eglinton and then the 34 bus out to Don Mills. I spent $80 on a 10 ride GO pass, but that only gets me so far. I can't do anything else at the moment. I've done all I can; I got my-not-blood-uncle Terry to drive me in to work with him, but that means today I started at 8am and will work until probably 6:30pm or 7pm. If I was living at my suckier-blood-uncle's, there would be the chance I could walk. But, that house is on the market now and I can't. Looking around the office, there's hardly anyone in today.
There was a Cease and Desist order issued to the union this morning, and hardly anyone listened. I saw a 25 Don Mills bus heading north at 8 am, the only bus I've seen all day.
This is just one massive headache. It's all very S.O.L. feeling. :\
Right now, I'm stuck in the middle of a transit wild cat strike. It happens to start on the Monday of the week I'm commuting from Hamilton to North York and the strike kills half my route.
No one is 100% what the heck is going on.
First the rumours were that it was the drivers striking because of the mess with fare collection. Union rules now state that a driver doesn't have to collect a fare if a rider if they refuse, since it can endanger a driver's personal well being in some cases. However, upper management is against this.
Then we heard on the radio that it's a lockout by upper management.
Now the story I'm hearing is that it's janitors and subway track workers striking because their shifts are getting moved from day shifts to evening shifts.
I'm just one of probably thousands (700,000 in some reports) of people displaced at the moment. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the TTC usually. But, I'm too poor to afford a car at the moment and don't have a full license anyway. Personally, I just want to get to work and get the services I paid for through taxes and my Might-As-Well-Call-It-$100-A-Month Metropass. This means I'm stuck.
As it stands, I need to use the GO Train to get from Hamilton to Toronto, the Yonge subway to get to Eglinton and then the 34 bus out to Don Mills. I spent $80 on a 10 ride GO pass, but that only gets me so far. I can't do anything else at the moment. I've done all I can; I got my-not-blood-uncle Terry to drive me in to work with him, but that means today I started at 8am and will work until probably 6:30pm or 7pm. If I was living at my suckier-blood-uncle's, there would be the chance I could walk. But, that house is on the market now and I can't. Looking around the office, there's hardly anyone in today.
There was a Cease and Desist order issued to the union this morning, and hardly anyone listened. I saw a 25 Don Mills bus heading north at 8 am, the only bus I've seen all day.
This is just one massive headache. It's all very S.O.L. feeling. :\
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Date: 2006-05-29 02:47 pm (UTC)I'm cranky on your behalf now. (And I'm already cranky from the humidity in Ottawa so pity my co-workers.)
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Date: 2006-05-29 03:26 pm (UTC)It's really starting to feel like summer. The humidity hasn't really hit here, but I can only imagine when it does. E-Slushie time!
It's like internet cookies, but much cooler. You're a government employee too, right? I thought that AC at work was standard issue.
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Date: 2006-05-29 03:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, there's AC here (of course, they have it up way too high so we're all shivering), but I don't have it at home. Von and I will have to fix that really soon...possibly as soon as tonight. Neither of us do well with this humidity and if's already this warm at the end of May...oh dear.
I'm whiny today. I should stay off the internet/blogosphere when I'm whiny. ;)
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Date: 2006-05-29 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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