Wednesday 17 June 2009

"Don't mess with us!" threatens NR

Either our armed forces are now so emasculated by fighting on two fronts that they can be whipped by a couple of HR dollies and Steve from Accounts...

...or Network Rail really does have some hard cases on the payroll.

This from an NR press release:

Who’s tougher? The Army, Air Force or Navy? None of them – it’s Network Rail. So proved our apprentices in the prestigious annual Junior Leaders Field Gun Competition, held at HMS Collingwood in Gosport, Hampshire. In the ultimate battle of strength, endurance, speed, accuracy and team work, Network Rail apprentices came out on top.

You pays your money you takes your choice.

UPDATE (belatedly): This from our man at 222 Marylebone Road...

Apparently the winning team, (of ex-apprentices, note) have spent the last three months in Peter Henderson's boot camp learning how to rip out failed equipment on the WCML with their bare hands to save time and allow replacement in an eight hour possession.