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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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[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.