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London Tube's voice fired for being funny
Posted by Fired Fred on November 27, 2007 4:56 PM
Emma Clarke will be looking for a new job doing voiceover work, after eight years of doing announcements for the London Underground. Apparently the tools running the Tube don't share that famed British sense of humor with, well, anyone else.
The Tubers accused Emma of criticizing the service. She says she was wildly misquoted.
Several of her announcements have been reposted elsewhere, after her web site got crushed by people hurrying over to see what all the fuss was about...
"What I actually said was that traveling in a Tube train would be dreadful for me, listening to my own voice and seeing the haunted faces of commuters being subjected to me telling them to 'mind the gap'" ..."I would find it quite an uncomfortable experience in the same way that when I call a company when I'm their on-hold voice and it's me saying - "please press 2 for accounts - it's a creepy experience to be honest".One of her spoof messages said, "We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud." Come on, tell me that's not accurate.