Not in this industry.Better still if you could actually work from the pub!
I'm wondering how long it will be before random visits to homes by drug and alcohol testers commence.
Not in this industry.Better still if you could actually work from the pub!
Ironically that was on the local news a few months back. People working from home could set up in the pub as long as they had breakfast &/or bought drinks. They got use of wifi, got out of the house & have others around them so more like an office atmosphere. Just the job!Better still if you could actually work from the pub!
I wonder how much rail use will fall this time. I cannot imagine it falling by the 95% of the first lockdown for three reasons.Rail bosses fear that the restrictions will lead to a repeat of passenger numbers falling by 95pc, as happened in March. “Supply and demand are poles apart,” said one senior industry source.
From an employers point of view, it stops where it no longer benefits the business. Each business has a different view of remote working, on the one hand there are employers that manage people who they trust and are motivated by the independance that homeworking gives them. At another extreme, there a management who have no trust in their employees unless thay can see them. That can reveal inadequacies in the management and/or the job itself as much as there being unreliable and untrustworthy employees.But where does that stop from an employers point of view. If a job can be done entirely remotely then why not see if someone in Eastern Europe or India will do it for 1/4 of the price?
Well we take our PNBs & do occasional meetings with managers in Wetherspoons over breakfast.Not in this industry.
Is the lockdown going to affect on board services again?
Such as first class catering, availability of a shop/buffet counter, guards checking tickets etc?
That too. Or watch a film, or go to the gym/for a swim.....
Better still if you could actually work from the pub!
Better still if you could actually work from the pub!
When the new D&A rules came in in the '90s it was drilled into us that going into a licenced premises and not consuming alcohol, while not strictly speaking prohibited, was basically extemely unwise and could well get you a "please explain" or a "due cause" D&A test if the wrong person saw you.Well we take our PNBs & do occasional meetings with managers in Wetherspoons over breakfast.
Chris Whitty said there could still be restrictions this time next year this afternoon at the 5pm press conference. I think long term effect assessment is probably 18 months away at least.Details of long term effect won't be evident until at least 6 months after the ceasation of all restrictions - so likely this time next year.
Depends if you prefer to disappear off to a restaurant with co-workers or your partner / family and may also depend on the scenario which applies at any given moment in time.This is certainly a factor. Homeworking was a lot more tolerable when you could dissappear off to a pub or restaurant of an evening.
Tell me about it, I was there too & very annoyed that BR dared to tell me where I could & couldnt go for lunch. Thankfully things are far more sensible now that pubs serve tea, coffee & cake & Spoons daytimes is basically a cafe bar.When the new D&A rules came in in the '90s it was drilled into us that going into a licenced premises and not consuming alcohol, while not strictly speaking prohibited, was basically extemely unwise and could well get you a "please explain" or a "due cause" D&A test if the wrong person saw you.
Why would pubs care if they are drinking on duty? Not that they would be anyway.We were told not to use Toilets in pubs when in unform as they would then have to come test you if reported. Did not stop me setting up office in a pub mind you when I had 1 coach every 2 hrs when I did Rail Replacement n a tiny village in the peaks for 14hrs. I been in a pub and seen Northern Rail Staff having food at Wetherspoons. you would think pubs would not serve them anyway if they was drinking on duty.
Why would pubs care if they are drinking on duty? Not that they would be anyway.
I do hope Reading to Gatwick Airport services aren't terminated at Redhill like they were previously.No doubt once again it'll take far too long for most operators to return to any sort of useful service after the restrictions begin to ease.
By running the same timetable Northern will still require as many staff which in a time of rising infections and therefore more staff isolating would not be feasible.Do Northern need to cut any services? So many of the diagrams are running as double units and as a result lightly loaded. If they just reduce these to running with single units then a lot of them will have reasonable loadings.
The timetable may not have been sparse in some areas but others it was. If the timetable did reduce by that amount, at least there would be more rolling stock to use on it.Yeah, I think once things are back to normal, rail use will return ~80% of 2019 levels, so about 2010-2011 levels. Now I don't recall 2010 being some really sparse timetable on these sorts of routes.
And I for one am working from home and am thoroughly sick of it, as are most others at my company.
What was RICF stand for?RICF meeting scheduled for Thursday...no doubt it’ll be discussed.
I loved commuting by train and travelling at weekends. Every non commute journey was seen as a nice bonus free journey.That's quite possibly true. One thing I do find is that if I'm working from home I quite fancy travel at the weekend, but if I'm commuting I very much don't.
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Yeah, I think once things are back to normal, rail use will return ~80% of 2019 levels, so about 2010-2011 levels. Now I don't recall 2010 being some really sparse timetable on these sorts of routes.
And I for one am working from home and am thoroughly sick of it, as are most others at my company.
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I think that'll just be encouragement to wear a face covering next winter, especially if we're still seeing the odd Covid case pop up. There will be no justification for anything as tough as we've had to endure.Chris Whitty said there could still be restrictions this time next year this afternoon at the 5pm press conference. I think long term effect assessment is probably 18 months away at least.
The beginning of the end of rail travel as we know it. It’s gonna take a loooooong time to recover now. Can see the car staying king for a long time.
I think that'll just be encouragement to wear a face covering next winter, especially if we're still seeing the odd Covid case pop up. There will be no justification for anything as tough as we've had to endure.
There was no justification for throwing decades of pandemic planning out, in favour of untested and cruel lockdowns; but that didn't stop them.I think that'll just be encouragement to wear a face covering next winter, especially if we're still seeing the odd Covid case pop up. There will be no justification for anything as tough as we've had to endure.
Never heard of that. It's the perfect place for breakfast & unlimited coffee during extended PNBs. Wouldnt dream of drinking alcohol in my uniform at any time when off duty.I’m sure there used to be a thing where people used to say don’t go into a Wetherspoon in uniform or with uniform showing under any circumstances.
No idea why they were singled out.