Recent content by Halfway Boy

That my colleagues don’t film me? If I was in an office and someone came in and starting filming me I’d be firing off an email to HR. Not wanting your colleagues to film you is a normal reasonable take. 1754001754 I am forced to accept spotters, unless they cross the line into unsafe...

As a fellow train operator I’d be complaining. I don’t go to work to be filmed. Whether that’s in passing, on a train coming the opposite direction or waiting to pick up my train. It’s bad enough having to deal with spotters, especially when the heritage trains are out, let alone a colleague...

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Perfect thank you. To clarify they were station staff not ticket office, my ticket office has closed, hence the lack of ticketing knowledge/training.

Morning All, I have a question regarding season tickets. I did ask at my local station but unfortunately I was told “no idea mate sorry”. Not their fault, since the ticket office has closed I imagine most of the new staff aren’t quite familiar with ticketing rules. My question is essentially...

So progression in LU is essentially, after 6 months, you can apply for any role that you’re eligible for. Some roles have typical paths. So for example if you want to become a SOO your career path will look something like: CSA - T/Op - Service Controller - Service Manager - SOO Or CSA -...

So there has recently been an advert sent out for new T/Ops to work Saturday/Sunday earlies and lates only (TO26 Grade) in order to reduce the weekend working burden on full time train ops following the absorption of night tube into full time. The lists got filled and closed pretty much...

There is a trial about to be underway shortly for in-cab training, involving drivers who have been off sick/shielding and those needing CAP’s. It is voluntary for both the IO and driver, so likely to be some time before they clear the backlog of existing drivers before they can start looking at...

Not really - the furlough scheme is being used for non-essential staff to help keep TfL moving by reducing staff costs (which amount for a significant proportion of the budget) whilst the biggest source of our income has been decimated. Arguably if the government is paying 80% of their...

I vaguely recall some Station staff who were still about that were ticket office trained could do a printout for BTP and such like, however they are not going to want to do one for you because of corona if you could find one. Other than that, staff travel probably could provide one if they...

Training is still suspended... we’ve had 0 new T/Ops through for a while now.

The only way bankruptcy might affect you would be if you were driving for DRS as you would have to hold DV clearance. Short of that, there aren’t any roles on the railway that would require you to even disclose you were bankrupt to your employer let alone affect your employment. bankruptcy...

depends on your depot really. generally speaking earlies are the most popular so you shouldn’t have a problem getting lates. getting on the nights might be a bit more difficult. At least at my depot, there isn’t enough nights to go around so they end up doing a mixture of lates then nights...

there is no mafia for night tube... because you only do nights...

You should be given a sheet with the current waiting lists on it at the school when you are making your nominations, if not... There is a folder at the booking on desk of every depot, it should have waiting lists that are updated monthly. As part of your first 4 weeks at Ashfield house you...