Builder asked to move from Tube seat by man who claimed 'he had a better job’
'He probably thought because he earns more money than me he could intimidate me'
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Your support makes all the difference.A builder has been left in disbelief after claiming a fellow passenger ordered him to move from his seat because he thought he had a better job.
Jamie Loveday told The Evening Standard, a well-spoken and smartly dressed man, aged between 40 and 50, approached him as he sat on a Victoria line train after getting on the carriage at Green Park on Wednesday evening.
The 19-year-old said the man asked him to vacate his seat as he made his way home to Luton after finishing work at Westminster’s Adelphi Building because he was the finance manager at an upmarket hotel.
“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and said ‘excuse me’ before saying no I wasn’t going to give up my seat,” said Mr Loveday.
“He probably thought because he earned more money than me, he could intimidate me.”
According to Mr Loveday, the man offered no other reason for deserving the seat.
“He probably thought because he earns more money than me he could intimidate me. I was in my dusty clothes and he was in a Calvin Klein suit.”
Mr Loveday said he heard the man say “this is outrageous” before he moved down the carriage and asked a Chinese girl to move for him.
The teenager, who often commutes to London, said it was not the first time he had experienced arrogance on the tube.
Mr Loveday said: “It annoyed me that he … was arrogant to think he was better than me but I find that happens in London.”
Last month pregnant mother, Raayan Zafar, was left speechless after a fellow Tube passenger allegedly told her to prove she was expecting a baby when asked to sit in a priority seat.
Ms Zafar said: "As a nation we are losing our etiquette”
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