Comments on: Incompetence http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/incompetence/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Del http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Sun, 28 May 2006 22:24:45 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=413#comment-775 I worked for S&T for a short while in the late ’80s as a trainee.
I remember two particular instances:
We were testing cables and did 2pm to about 10pm. When it came to filling in my timesheet, the manager said ‘Oh, put down 11am to 1am. And you can put travelling time too!’
On a Saturday night, we were supposed to change a stock-and-swtich on a point. We couldn’t get the third-rail switched off, so we all trooped back to the lobby, kipped down for eight hours and got paid for that too…

It was all accepted practice

]]> By: CHris http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Sun, 14 May 2006 16:07:52 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=413#comment-774 If only “lazy hacks” hadn’t been sleeping on the job when John Major and Edwina Curry were “working hard” we might not have had the privatisation disaster.

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