Recent content by Lord Bottomley

Ive never been involved in a recruitment process like the railways have. Its seems pretty unique. Lol.

Covid 19 turned everything on its head. Everybodies heads were spinning. Be patient is all. Im talking from experience.

Wouldnt know about that. Seems the Northern recruitment machine is starting to move again though.

Anybody heard any updates on Northerns training school re opening?

"This isnt our first rodeo" ha ha thats good.

Doing the same myself. Some temporary pain to suck up.

1000's of applicants. Wow that's gunna take some serious whittling down then.

GB RailFreight ran something the over week specifically aimed at recruiting service leavers.

Yep that's me im just about to drop 16k to train as a driver. Yikes:D

Id agree with that. Im in the same boat as ST and thats what im doing. Ill give my notice when the TOC can get its training school up and running again. If I cant give my full notice then so be it. No point taking a chance as nobody can offer any guarantees at the moment.

I suppose it's better for both parties. You will not be sat on a trainee wage and they don't have to pay you to sit on your backside. Just let them defer it until the world is normalised again.

Northern Trains. Yes people who had given notice will be paid as I understand. Its a strange time at the moment. I'm in the "key" Rail freight sector so it's business as normal. But passenger. Who can say? Time will tell. We'll just have to wait it out and see.

Im in exactly the same boat and was due to start in april. I agreed to carry on in my current job until some normality resumes and defer my start date. Luckily id left giving my notice until the last min. I am taking a big pay drop to train so don't want to be hanging around on the trainee wage...

Which TOC is that?

What TOC is that mucker?