Confusion.

[yrieithydd]

I'm confused. Central trains have a driver shortage this Sunday which is messing with their timetable. This means that it is unlikely that I will travel to Coventry tomorrow (Saturday) as planned because it will be hard to get back in time on Sunday. This is irritating; OTOH, I like Central Trains policy of not forcing people to work on a Sunday. However, it is this policy which is causing the driver shortage and making me unable to travel. If a shop did not open one Sunday because of a similar policy I think I would be fine about it, but I see trains as services and thus in a slightly different category (and therefore reasonable to work on Sundays for). This reminds me that I haven't yet written about last week's adventures with the National Routeing [sic] Guide. I'll do that sometime.

Comments

[curig.livejournal.com]

This seems to be an annual occurence... I agree that not forcing people to work on Sundays is a good thing. However, for a service industry - unless one seriously advocates that no trains on Sunday is a Good Thing™ - you have to have a system which means that the service keeps going. There are various ways to achieve that but ISTM that it needs to be achieved.

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's the service element which is annoying. Shops are different.