Government may or may not have a sense of humour
Sometimes, there are advantages to being an independent authority. Take, for example, how the London Underground handled the firing of their popular announcer, Emma Clarke. (She’s the one who recorded the announcements for the stops):
“London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Ms. Clarke are experiencing severe delays,” a spokesman said.
There seem to be several different reasons for her firing - one of which was the mock in-train announcements available on her personal site:
“Passengers filling in answers on their Sudokus, please accept they are just crosswords for the unimaginative and are not in any way more impressive just because they contain numbers.”
Of course, the interview she gave to This is London may not have helped:
“The thought of being stuck in the Tube with strangers for minutes on end and having to listen to endless repeated messages of my own voice fills me with horror.”
