Falcon1200
Established Member
Ringing people at home when they may have their phone on for news of ill or elderly relatives and then trying to put the squeeze on to get them to cover jobs is pretty low and actually starts to get into “endangering the safety of the railway” territory because you want drivers not to come to the job rushed or stressed.
I explained in Post #218 why I phoned off-duty staff, sometimes in the early hours, and asked them to come into work. If they said 'no thanks' that was the end of the call, and if they had showed themselves in advance as unavailable they would not be called in the first place. Does such a system not apply elsewhere on the railway, including LNER? I would agree however that if Drivers are being repeatedly asked despite having already refused, or made themselves unavailable, that is unacceptable.