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Oh dear, I see the RMT has once again decide that the best approach to take when someone has been sacked for gross misconduct and is in the middle of appealing this is to go on strike. Without even waiting for an interim ruling from the tribunal. Because somehow going on strike will magically swing a tribunal that's supposed to be impartial in your favour.

Last time they did this it was over a tube driver being sacked for a health and safety violation. The tribunal eventually ruled that the dismassal was unfair, but not without attaching some blame to the driver. Not that you'd have realised it if you'd read the report on the RMT's website which claimed that the tribunal's decision fully vindicated their position.

The compensation has arrived (such as it is)

Readers may remember that I've posted about the long-running roadworks and the rumours of compensation. Well, there's been an update on it. A few days ago I received this letter...

( The letter )

Included with the letter was (drumroll please)... wait for it... a blank £20 Tesco Giftcard for the supermarket in question!

Yes. Well. He could at least have hand-written an apology on the giftcard, or if nothing else signed the letter himself instead of printing a scanned signature. Y'know, some sort of personal touch that shows this is more than just a quick mail merge.

So, the question now is what do I do with it? Well, what I'll likely do is just spend the thing (since as tempting as it is to send it back with a suitably ranty letter, that requires effort and will probably result in me having no giftcard). But talismancer did gift me a paid account about a year ago, and if a paid account is good for anything here in LJ land it's for creating random polls. Plus it gives the peanut gallery something to do :)

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Edit: that was supposed to read "fire it into the sundestroy it".