Chris Lyes

Freelance Television Production Accountant.

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

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[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@TUIUK why, if my voucher is compensation for the 2023 wildfires how does compensation go out of date? Why can’t I use my voucher. Where is my compensation

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

The fact is, disabled people reacting with anything other than gratefulness & deference for being granted basic human dignity is often perceived as rudeness. And the power nondisabled people have over our lives to enforce that dynamic is extraordinary.

No trains for me today.

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

Standard for denial of ramp assistance. Abusiveness is, and I was certainly not that.

I have asked for any body cam footage of the interaction and to know exactly which words I said resulted in a denial of service. …

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

Ramp assistance by any staff due to one’s accusation that I was “rude.”

I do not believe I was rude — I believe this able bodied man did not enjoy a young disabled woman speaking assertively back to him in the same tone he was using. And regardless, “rudeness” is not the …

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

& did not need a lecture. He continued on and I repeated myself and said I was just looking to the next train since they’d failed to bring the ramp for the original one. He then said I was rude and that he would not be assisting me. I said okay.

Several minutes later, another…

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

bring the ramp in time for me to board my train several minutes before. He was telling me that I was a lower priority than those who booked assistance in advance. Very abled-mansplaining.

As I work in accessible transport, I firmly but politely told him that I know the law…

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because @networkrail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me.

Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

Can’t use the appeal on Facebook because hacker has changed password, email and phone, I’m locked out. And can’t open a new Facebook account, that was shut down. There should be a way to get help. @MarkZuckss @facebook @Meta @MetaNewsroom @instagram

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

Help please. Facebook account is hacked, now suspended on facebook because someone added an instagram account that is not mine, that account broke community standard rules. How do I fix that instagram account with no access. @MetaNewsroom @facebook @instagram @MarkZuckss

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@tammylynne533 @facebook Same happened to me, facebook account is hacked, I have been suspended on facebook because someone added an instagram account that is not mine-that account broke community standard rules. How do I fix that instagram account with no access. Help @MetaNewsroom @facebook @instagram

[Leah @leah_crowder2]

Its honestly disgusting that people buy tickets just to resell them at stupid prices. @TicketmasterUK you should do something to prevent this!

As a fan it is incredibly disappointing

#Coldplay2025 #Coldplay #Ticketmaster

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@TUIUK @ruby2244 Your team on the ground has been told by Greek authority that some of us can go back to hotels. But TuI has not confirmed this and the reps here seem to have I contact with anyone that can authorize this

[Maggie Mc Manus @ruby2244]

@TUIUK we were put on a plane from Dublin to Rhodes yesterday without any mention of an evacuation taking place. We are in Rhodes in a school with no water or working bathroom facilities, no communication as to when or where we are to go. TUI reps have no information!

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Elizabeth was just 18 when she was raped by a colleague of hers at McDonalds, where she worked part-time during sixth form.

She went to the police, but nothing happened.
No charges, no consequences, no justice.
Her rapist walked free and kept his job.

Now, she is speaking out.

Having bravely waived her right to anonymity, Elizabeth (@ElizabethHaighx) wrote:

“No one tells you how much it hurts when a man forces himself into your frozen, shocked body. There is no manual that prepares you for the pain — the sheer, deadening terror — of losing your virginity to a rapist.

I said all the ‘right’ things. I told him I didn’t want to. I begged him, repeatedly, to stop. 

But the man — a longer-serving colleague from McDonald’s where I worked part-time — raped me anyway.

And the chilling fact… is that the prevailing culture at McDonald’s not only failed to check this sort of outrageous behaviour, but turned a blind eye to it.

In short, predatory men were permitted to run amok.

There was no duty of care shown to female employees as young as 16, who had no recourse to help if they were harassed. 
And male staff who flirted, made lewd sexual comments and touched young women inappropriately never faced reprimand from their seniors who were often as culpable of bad behaviour themselves.

An unspoken rule decreed that pretty female employees should be deployed in customer-facing roles. ‘Tits on tills’ was the crude aphorism used.

Nobody, in my experience, ever acknowledged it was a policy, but it happened routinely: attractive women worked front of house; men almost always in the kitchen.

Little wonder then, that the McDonald’s colleague who raped me, would be unlikely to face penalties at work for his crime. 

Actually he felt entitled to abuse me without any fear that his actions would have consequences.”

And Elizabeth is not alone in her experience.

Hundreds of present and former McDonalds staff have recently spoken out about the culture of silence, sexism, sexual harassment within the company.

In a Northern Irish branch, sexual contact between managers and junior staffers (which is prohibited under McDonalds policy) was so rife there was an alleged outbreak of gonorrhoea.

A teenage worker in Devon claimed a senior manager choked and groped her.

Welsh McDonalds managers are alleged to have bet on who could sleep with new hires first.

And the list goes on.

For years, young women and girls working at the world’s largest fast-food chain have been left at the mercy of predatory managers and senior staff, while those in power turned a blind eye.

Why? Because McDonalds cared more about profits than protecting their own employees from harassment and abuse.

Enough is enough.
Change must happen.
Now.

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@TUIUK But you are not! The Greek people are looking after us you are doing nothing are just leaving us to it. #TUI #disgrace #rhodesfire #rhodeswildfires

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@TUIUK @ajordan87 @BBCNews @SkyNews Can’t see #TUI doing much? It’s all being done by fantastic Greek locals looking after everyone NoT you what a disgrace.

[Helen Tonks @helenhydraulics]

@TUIUK why fly us from the UK into #Rhodes #wildfires and living nightmare at 23:00 last night, knowing we weren’t safe and our hotel @GennadiGrandRes was closed? 5 of us among 100s more slept on a school floor. Locals doing everything, but no sight or sound from you #stranded

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

Hotel is also open

[Chris Lyes @ChrisL_50]

@TUIUKPR @TUIUK when will you let us know if we can return to Pefkos hotels? Your TUI rep at 7th high school has not been updated but the Greek authority is saying roads open and safe to return. #rhodeswildfires #rhodesfire