{"id":28775,"date":"2014-05-12T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-commuters-story-my-single-moment-of-madness-that-cost-me-my-job\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T04:43:24","slug":"a-commuters-story-my-single-moment-of-madness-that-cost-me-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-commuters-story-my-single-moment-of-madness-that-cost-me-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"A commuter's story: 'My single moment of madness that cost me my job'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt’s an offence to travel without a valid rail ticket. But for one commuter the price of a one-off incident proved very highIt was a moment of madness she puts down to a sleepless night and a stressful journey to work. But jumping on a train without a ticket because of a queue at the machine \u2013 compounded by giving a false address to the ticket inspector \u2013 has left Lorna Dixon* with a criminal record and out of work after a job offer was withdrawn.The 58-year-old, the sole wage earner in her family, is “unemployed and possibly unemployable” after being prosecuted and fined \u00a3400 over the one-off incident on a Leeds to Sheffield train, which, she says, effectively involved a shortfall of 40p. She is the first to admit she was at fault, but argues “the penalty seems way out of proportion”. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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