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Post by geriatrix on Oct 17, 2022 8:39:08 GMT
This popped up on my Facebook feed. Was it accurate? Just curious.
" “‼️IMPORTANT POST FOR MONDAY 17th OCTOBER 2022‼️ Please all be advised that there is no staff for the night shift for Rickmansworth signal cabin tonight (Sunday night 2300 until 0700). After a LOT of scrambling, management have been unable to get hold of anyone to work that cabin tonight. So it will be unstaffed until the early shift are able to get to work at 0700 Monday morning. The result of this is that there will be no service between Amersham, Chesham, and Watford to Northwood from start of traffic until AT LEAST 0745 - 0800. I have asked about taxis, but they simply will not be able to source the amount of taxis needed for the amount of people who need to travel. The time of night this was discovered, management are unable to source replacement buses either due to it being too late in the evening.”
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Post by Dstock7080 on Oct 17, 2022 8:51:55 GMT
This popped up on my Facebook feed. Was it accurate? Just curious. Yes accurate, services resumed 07.08
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Post by Chris M on Oct 17, 2022 12:17:47 GMT
Why was the lack of staff discovered so late?
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Post by Colin on Oct 17, 2022 13:50:42 GMT
I would imagine the rostered night person never showed up and it was at that point the problem was discovered.
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the person rostered was released for training or some other reason but roster wasn't updated. Roster gets published and everyone assumes it's covered as on paper it is.
It happens from time to time and is usually able to be overcome by last minute overtime (which I presume the late turn signaller did last night as the close of service seems to have been unaffected), or maybe redeploying a spare person if there is one available. The call obviously went out offering overtime but with a 12 hour rest rule for safety critical staff and a regime of running tight on staffing numbers, nobody was willing or able to take the overtime.
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