A well paid job that you need no degree either. They also can't be bothered with getting upset with an irrelevant government who will be kicked out soon. Two 'organisations' who deserve each other.
I did an undergraduate degree in Cartography with Geography. One had to study two subjects at tge University. After a period of working as a professional Cartogtapher, I did a masters in Geographical Information System. I now use that knowledge, along with the knowledge from my first degree in my current local government job.
Does this make me more skilled and better than a train driver? What do you think
@nuneatonmark?
That happens everywhere in every industry. I've lost count of the number of times I as a high cost contract IT consultant have spent significant time doing things like data cleansing and loading, and sometimes even data keying, when a lower wage clerk could easily be doing that job.
I don't mind doing it, it's a bit of a break. But it's an incredibly expensive way to get that work done.
I was once doing a digital caputre of information held on paper maps.
I was contracting at the time and it involved the need to photocopy card records containing textual information, as the actual cards were still being used, so I couldn't hold on to them. Ideally they would have got someone else to do it at a cheaper price but there wasn't anyone so I did it, at obviously a greater project cost.
I'll put it another way. You drive a train from a commuter belt station into a London terminus and have a 40-minute wait before working your next train to another destination. That 40 minutes wait is not booked for an official break of any kind. You could be made more productive by driving your next train to a different destination after only 20 minutes' wait. And so on.
That has got me wondering. On the Guildford to Waterloo via Epsom services, are drivers sat at Guildford, waiting to return to London via Epsom or do they switch units to driver a service via Cobham?
Actually, I'm mistaken as the via Epsom service from Waterloo returns out as a via Cobhham service, 27 minutes later.
What I should have said was does a driver, arriving in on a train from Waterloo via Cobham, wait to return to London via Epsom or do they join another service? A train from Waterloo via Cobham arrives x02 and departs back to Waterloo via Epsom at x45. This is during the day Monday to Saturday, with variations at certain times of the day. That is a 43 minute gap.