Tell me, do you work Sundays?.
I feel I want to re-balance the conversation a little here... even though I didn't state the quoted text.
I didn't work Sunday. Actually, I didn't this week. I had Sunday off, and Sunday only.
When I was a student - I worked Sundays in a part time job. And Saturdays too. And Mon-Fri with my uni work.
When I graduated, I often had to work significant overtime during the week
or Saturday/Sunday as these days you have to 'prove' to your employer how committed you are to stay in a descent graduate job.
Now I'm in a different, more independent line of work I often work partly on Sundays in addition to Mon-Fri.
So I guess I'd like to show that SR employees most certainly aren't the only ones who work on a Sunday and it's not unreasonable to ask them to do so; it seems like the poster of the above quote is also in the lucky club of working Sundays! Many other professions that seem like Mon-Fri jobs (teachers, managers, consultants etc.) also catch up on a lot of paperwork on Sundays or Saturdays too.
Of course it's great to be able to hold your employers feet to the fire every time there's a dispute, simply by refusing to work a few Sundays.
That's very true.
It's also a very unique situation in the world of work these days. I have never had the opportunity to fight for better pay and/or conditions in my lifetime in such a way and I also know many others who haven't.
But to continue being a little philosophical - those situations above where I described where I
have had to work Sundays to get by. I've needed my local rail service to be able to do that.
I'm by no means complaining about having to take the train, I'm a rail enthusiast - I've always supported the rail service and gone out of my way to be friendly and helpful to staff whenever I can as I know they have a tough job sometimes. However... I do agree that it's not unreasonable to expect that public transport is available when it's needed - and that's it really, it's
needed... and to continue down this path is showing those that use the rail service a lot of disrespect. The Abellio action isn't just on Sundays, it's nearly every day now - and almost always in the Strathclyde area where services are busiest.
So yes, I've moaned about Abellio a lot on these forums of late... because I now walk around a mile away from my local station to catch the bus instead. The rail service has become so unreliable and I'm so fed up that the whole situation has literally turned a
rail enthusiast into someone who
catches the bus when there is a train station nearer to where he lives
Abellio, if you're reading - count the beans of the lost ticket sales you have from me alone. I can assure you, it's quite high.