Tube driver
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London Underground is affected by staff shortages just like every other business out there. Staff are isolating, shielding or have been struck down with Covid on top of the normal sickness.
There is not a bottomless pit of control room staff or drivers to draw upon especially as training has effectively ceased and so shortages appear and have to be managed accordingly. Clearly it’s unsafe to run a railway with a decimated staffing level so the decision was made to close the line. Nobody wants this but it’s the reality we face.
Your sister’s management should foresee these problems and put mitigations in place (such as change of rest day, taxi, etc). In fact, your sister being frontline in this crisis should make her more acutely aware than most on how this virus is screwing up everything. It’s unfortunate but it’s just how things are at the moment.
There is not a bottomless pit of control room staff or drivers to draw upon especially as training has effectively ceased and so shortages appear and have to be managed accordingly. Clearly it’s unsafe to run a railway with a decimated staffing level so the decision was made to close the line. Nobody wants this but it’s the reality we face.
Your sister’s management should foresee these problems and put mitigations in place (such as change of rest day, taxi, etc). In fact, your sister being frontline in this crisis should make her more acutely aware than most on how this virus is screwing up everything. It’s unfortunate but it’s just how things are at the moment.