Tube strike - yeah, whatever

There was a day when we all threw up our arms at the very mention of a tube strike. "NOOOOO!" we cried "WHY BOB? WHY??". We all called off of work for the day and bemoaned the humanity of it all. 

Since then, however, what with 'planned' engineering works, part closures, delays, overcrowding, faulty ticket machines, staff shortages, unplanned engineering works, cancellations due to rain, cancellations due to wind, cancellations due to snow, cancellations due to sun, cancellations due to planned engineers pouring quick drying cement into a control room, signal failures (faulty lightbulbs incidentally) - and those are just the ones I can think of in a few minutes. There are better ones - it just doesn't make much of a difference anymore. 

Thus it is that the vast majority of FB posts I have seen about the tube today haven't been the cries of those stranded and unable to get to their low paid jobs (where they also face the threat of losing hours, pay and even their jobs) but put the strike down to being yet another minor inconvenience. So well done Bob, Borris and everyone else involved. You have made public transport so shit that a strike is not a political statement but just another thing in a long list of things that make the daily grind a bit more rubbish for everyone. 

It means that gobshite Bob Crow no longer holds London over a barrel, but it's a hollow victory. Ultimately it means that we all just accept that the service is shit, the journey to work is going to be a ball ache and we may as well just get on with it cause we need the money.