Harlesden
Member
I remember as a young teen traveling around the Underground and London bus networks and thinking that staff looked like something in their 1970's uniforms whether ticket collector on the Underground or bus conductor.
There was widespread respect from passengers.
Today's uniforms barely look like a uniform at all and suddenly we have an anarchic minority with no respect whatsoever for staff.
In the Prison Service, the authoritarian style of uniform as worn by Mr. MacKay in "Porridge" is long gone having been replaced by shirt sleeves and fairly nondescript trousers with officers required to address inmates as Mr. -------.
Nobody is denying that workers should feel comfortable while working, but in these confrontational days, a mere name badge does not seem to be enough, and today's gateline staff on the Underground appear more like members of a club on their club outing than respected public servants protecting the interests of their employer.
There was widespread respect from passengers.
Today's uniforms barely look like a uniform at all and suddenly we have an anarchic minority with no respect whatsoever for staff.
In the Prison Service, the authoritarian style of uniform as worn by Mr. MacKay in "Porridge" is long gone having been replaced by shirt sleeves and fairly nondescript trousers with officers required to address inmates as Mr. -------.
Nobody is denying that workers should feel comfortable while working, but in these confrontational days, a mere name badge does not seem to be enough, and today's gateline staff on the Underground appear more like members of a club on their club outing than respected public servants protecting the interests of their employer.