• @Tja@programming.dev
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    82 days ago

    I havent seen one company where “train didn’t come” isn’t a valid excuse for bring late. Like, no further questions.

    • @Two2Tango@lemmy.ca
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      42 days ago

      I was late for a hair appointment because I missed the bus, and I swear they wrote it down in my file because every time I went back, for the next year they were like “So… Did you come by bus today?”

      Also yeah no problem if your train doesn’t come once - but if it happens more than once it’s going to reflect badly even though it’s out of your control. You’ll start to get the comments “You should take the earlier one!” I travelled by bus with 2 transfers to college and it was ROUGH.

      • @Tja@programming.dev
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        32 days ago

        I used it every time it happened, very rarely when I just slept in. My boss also came by S-Bahn so he was late from time to time as well. Of course if we had an important meeting or a customer appointment we came in a whole hour early, to compensate for 3 train failures, which never happened. But if you came 20 minutes late on a regular Tuesday nobody cared that much (boring office IT job).

    • @khannie@lemmy.world
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      42 days ago

      There’s a classic that Irish rail used to pull out of their bag of shite excuses until they got slagged to death over it:

      Leaves on the track.

      No joke. C’mon now lads. In fairness though the train service in Dublin and inter-city is pretty reliable and reasonable.

      • Natanox
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        52 days ago

        Sounds like the Irish version of the german winter chaos. The very moment the first snowflake drops it’s total chaos, trains being terminated left and right due to an old railway switch that still saw Adolf freezing shut again.

      • My understanding is that leaves contain some compound(s) that, when wet and under the extremely high pressures that train wheels provide, becomes one of the most effective lubricants we know about. In other words, the brakes literally won’t do anything because you’ll slip-n-slide your way at the same speed you were going before.