I always thought it was mandatory that a guard steps onto the platform to dispatch their train
I always thought it was mandatory that a guard steps onto the platform to dispatch their train
notadriver:1623764 said:Surely with 33 years seniority you would have been given first dibs at the remaining conductor positions on the GOB line ?
Surely with 33 years seniority you would have been given first dibs at the remaining conductor positions on the GOB line ?
If it was for the long term I would of done that, but its 6 months at the very best before these go over. All it would of done would put off the inevitable and in the meantime I would resent working for a company that wants to get rid of me anyway.
So it was better for me to leave now and hope for the best, rather then wait until possible June for the same thing.
I hope you can see where I am coming from.
You're joking?! Modern TOCs would like nothing more than to get rid of all those ex-BR 'dinosaurs' and replace them with staff moulded to the company's preferred image :-/
Yes I agree but seniority is part of hard won employment conditions and TOCs can't get around that. TOCs would love to reduce t&cs to that of bus drivers for all staff but they can't for example.
I don't really know about the GOB line but retrofitting them for DOO would be costly and electrification isn't happening any time soon as far as I know.
The last I heard was that it was all going to be done and dusted by next summer unless there has been a change I have missed