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Author: Simon Perry

Go Slow

12:51 pm Friday, 28th October, 2011, Isle of Wight

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Howdie all. We’re going to be at a Wedding today, so won’t be publishing.

Hope you all have a super day!

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11 readers' comments to the “Go Slow” story

  1. +6 Click if you like this comment Janet Scott     says:
    28, October 2011 at 6:09 pm

    I hope you had a lovely time.

    Don’t forget the pic’s !

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  2. +14 Click if you like this comment MintyMat     says:
    28, October 2011 at 10:01 pm

    You realise there was a hole. In Cross Street, Ryde. And you weren’t there. Sloppy.

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  3. +6 Click if you like this comment Mr Justice     says:
    29, October 2011 at 5:18 pm

    How long is a wedding?

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    • +3 Click if you like this comment Janet Scott       says:
      29, October 2011 at 8:00 pm

      I agree Mr Justice. Let’s just HOPE they haven’t gone with Qantas to Australia. We REALY
      would have something to mutter about

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    • +2 Click if you like this comment Sally Perry       says:
      29, October 2011 at 9:24 pm

      Ha ha! Had to spend most of today travelling back to the Island, don’t worry, normal service resumes tomorrow (well normal Sunday service that is).

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      • +8 Click if you like this comment Salty Sam         says:
        30, October 2011 at 9:47 am

        You were lucky you didn’t travel a bit later, the last 2 cats were cancelled after a suicide bid and the passengers traipsed around to the car ferry where they were told that the next boat was the 1.30 carry ferry, which was effectively at 2.30!

        We found that the crew were willing to sail at 00.40, old time and then run with out a break to get back to the new time timetable.

        We were told managers didn’t want that to happen because the crew are only paid for 10 hours and were classed as being sedentary for the extra hour. It seems as though the crew sailed without pay. I find it ironic that a manger who sits at a desk all day can refuse people pay for being “sedentary”.

        In all a big thanks to the Wightlink Staff that put passengers first!

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        • +3 Click if you like this comment Asite2c           says:
          30, October 2011 at 10:43 am

          A manager who is probably paid a huge salary and treats his staff as cheap labour. This top down, dictatorial style of management is a typical example of private sector greed and bullying endemic within our society..

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          • +2 Click if you like this comment mark francis             says:
            30, October 2011 at 2:45 pm

            Exactly. Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Help help – I’m being repressed!

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          • +1 Click if you like this comment PAUL MULLERY             says:
            31, October 2011 at 8:26 am

            Shades of the early 20th century returning.

            Wives of the Titanic’s lost crew receiving their husbands last pay packet discovered pay had been witheld from the moment the ship sank.

            Shop assistants who are conned with a forged note have it deducted from their pay.

            Care assistants using their own cars to visit old people given a small flat rate car allowance not an amount per mile.

            Ferry staff considered to be sedentary and having their pay affected.

            Nothing like good old fashioned Edwardian values eh? This is what made Britain great.

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        • +2 Click if you like this comment Don Smith           says:
          30, October 2011 at 6:38 pm

          Typical capitalism – Change is on the way.

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