Random encounters with train conductors

[rollick]

Hey, remember back in September when I went to the earliest available Chicago screening of Resident Evil: Retribution, because it didn't screen for critics beforehand, and we needed a review? And two different guys wound up explaining things about the movie to me?

This morning, I did the same thing with the also-not-screened-for-critics Hansel &

Comments

[magdalene1]

What a strange block of daily enforced downtime. I'm glad you ran into him again!

[ladycelia]

That kind of down time every single day would likely drive me to drink.

[rollick]

At least you'd have plenty of time for it!

[bodybag_pilgrim]

I... I just...

How is that smart employee management?

Surely there must be ways they could be actually working? And thus not bored? Or bored differently?

I mean, that's ASIDE from the issues that it presents for the conductors themselves...

[marphod]

I'm going to guess that they aren't paid for their downtime.

Presumably, they could try to find part-time employment between 10 and 3, if they wanted. A lunch-focused business would be the obvious place that might want that shift of workers. (That kind of work also sounds like a special hell to me, but that's a side point.) Or they could work on their first novel/screenplay/whatever.

[andrewhime]

Sounds like we need to get him playing Ingress.

[witchway]

what an awesome story.

Me, I daydream about a job where I'm BORED. (of course, you and me, we'd just hang int he library and love it.)

ALSO I'm right now watching 21 Jump Street and the boys are getting out of the limo and doves are flying. PRetty funny.