So I’m sickening for suggesting there’s too many marketing people sending crap through my door. To the point that I’m expected to take up a drop in living standards. Ha
There is, if you count taxpayer money, yes.
So will you be losing your job? Who should lose theirs?
Oh, I see.
I’d start with the over bloated internal comms department. Sending a rainforest through my letterbox. Endless surveys, all nonsnense.
Then I’d go through HR. Which has mysteriously doubled in size since I started 20 years ago. There’s a person at my employer who can never answer a question without checking up the food chain. Yet they are a senior person on a very high salary. I expect people who earn more to know their onions.
Catering back offices can be centralised across all Intercity operators. Or outsourced. Again saving costs. Why do we buy a Mars bar for 27p when the guy at my corner shop buys them for 18p?
Marketing. If we are now a nationalised industry. Why does every TOC need a separate marketing dept? It’s more waste & duplication of functions.
The reform the rail industry needs is in its back office functions. Look at Scotrail and Abellio. They took on more managers than they had fired frontline staff. Look at the Fraser Eagle scandal with the WCML upgrade. Ridiculous wasting of public money.
If you aren’t critical to the running of a service. Then why are you there? It’s really simple. I just suspect many of you on here are in non jobs too. I get it. My wife works in PR, she thinks it’s a doss compared to say teaching or being a nurse. I often watch her knitting during conference calls. It’s hilarious. She earns twice my salary. But is anyone calling her lazy?
My final point is inflation is a nonsense. We’ve had twenty years of deliberate wage suppression. I found an old P60 from 1992. Back then I had a dead end retail job. But it paid £10K which is £22k in todays money. But someone doing the same job makes £16k now.
In addition my rent was 1/6th of my income. Nowadays it would be 30-50%. You could buy a house for three times your salary rather than ten.
There’s been a continuous erosion of lower middle class/working class wages. Yet housing, utilities all Sky high because of corporate profiteering and shortages of supply. We need a government for the people and an end to parsimonious types telling me the cupboard is bare. Because we managed to buy a test and trace that didn’t work for £37 Billion. Yet no one seems angry about that? Funny Eh?
Finally awards ceremonies. There’s one in Rail News every month. The public don’t care. Neither does anyone else. The only frontline staff you see there are the odd good looker a manager has their eye on.