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

[senji.livejournal.com]

I feel that there's a distinction to be made here between forcing people to work on Sundays and contracting (some) people to do Sunday work. The CT system where all Sundays are optional overtime for all staff is just implausible, but I'm sure that at least some staff would be willing to contract to work some or all Sundays in the year.