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[bubosquared]

Yay! The easter Bunny's been! *stuffs face with chocolate*

And I only just realised that easter is this weekend, not the next, and that I have Good Friday as well as Easter Monday off. Four days! Yay!

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[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

Sorry!

Tsk. Now I just had to buy myself a chocolate waffle on my way back. As always.

Did you have trouble getting into Brussels today, btw?

I did, as a matter of fact. They dropped us of in Schaarbeek. I got on the bus, had some kind of miscommunication with the bus driver (I hope), ended up in the wrong village, then took the bus back to the nearest metro station, and got to work 2 hours and 10 minutes late. It took me over five bloody hours to get to work. *hmph* I accordingly only got home an hour ago.

On the other hand, the action is quite understandable, and what's a measly two hours of my time, and I should stop being whiny about it. (There, that was decisive, wasn't it? *ahem*) It's stupid, really, how are people supposed to ward off aggressive travellers when they don't have the right to do anything? I can understand their anger -- after all, someone actually died.

Then again, I'm also a bit reluctant to give those guards too much power -- too easy to abuse. It's really a very difficult situation.

Erm. Wait, what was your question again? ;p

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

It's really a very difficult situation.

*nod* Yeah, I mean, out of all the strikes I've "survived" in the three years I've been taking the train to work, this one is probably the most justified one, and the one most people completely understood and sympathised with.

But when you think about the actual situation, on the one hand you have the fact that frankly, I'd like people to have a bit more power to stop this kind of shit, if only because I don't want to risk being assaulted, either, but then I start thinking perhaps they should hire people who're actually trained to handle obnoxious and/or aggressive people, and then I realise, hello, police?

I'm sorry, have you seen my point?

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

but then I start thinking perhaps they should hire people who're actually trained to handle obnoxious and/or aggressive people

Aren't those security guards trained, then? I'd think they get all sorts of training for this kind of situation, even more so if they aren't actually allowed to do anything. But there are just those people who you can talk to and talk to, and it won't help a bit, and if you're not allowed to get physical, well, what are you going to do?

and then I realise, hello, police?

That's a good point, but aren't the police understaffed as it is? Besides, the police get financed by the government, those security guards by the railway station. The governement has to cut down expenses, so they take on as little police(wo)men as possible, how on earth are they going to make the stations secure on top of their other tasks? And I do think it's the railway company's responsibility to keep the stations safe. If they've got sufficient training, it shouldn't make any difference whether it's the police or security guards patrolling the stations -- except, well, if those security guards aren't actually allowed to do anything, they're not much use, are they? But there I return to my original point. Heh.