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Originally Posted by washingmachine
EWS workers are very flexible,will go the extra mile to get things right.GBRail and F HH are run by ex EWS staff.There is a lot of good will from staff running EWS.It would collapse if they worked the way their managers want them to.The problem is senior managers ,there from BR days,junior managers shit scared to make a decision incase they are relocated to the dole.Their CEO runs it with an iron fist and won't listen to suggestions to improve.
Man management is very poor in this company.Their workers still deliver whilst getting treated piss poor.
DB may be what is needed,but they need to get rid of most of the present management and some of the crap graduates that are being taken on.
Safety,its the tick box culture.reactive not proactive.
All rail companies are in the same boat.
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WM,
I don't know if you work for EWS/DB schenker but if you do its not the same company I work for.
I agree with some of what you say but with other bits of this comment its pure rubbish.
I have to watch what i say, but many of our drivers don't want to change the old practices, mainly those from the large depots, they want the big money but they want it for doing next to nothing. Many of our older drivers are still working to what is called the pre 1988 agreements, now I won't even pretend to or understand the details of this agreement as its way before my time on the railway. New drivers have to agree to drive road vehicles to and from jobs if the diagramme needs that particular form of transport. These pre 1988 drivers do not have to drive road vehs so therefore that part of the job becomes a taxi ride which then equalls two taxi rides, one for him and one for the returning driver. According to our management the taxi bill is absolutley phenonomil for the company,
Yes many of our staff will go that extra mile to make a train run and keep it running but if we get to a point where we start to exceed our legal timings etc and can't get relief there comes a point where we have to say enough is enough. A couple of months ago a train arrived at our depot that was a couple of hours late, through no fault of the company, the relieving driver, who had travelled up pass refused to work the train away because he would have been a few minutes over his day and returned home pass leaving a train standing with no-one to work it.
This to me is what DB-Schenker has to stamp out the old BR mentallity, not just from its traincrews/groundstaff but also from some managers aswell. These people have to move into the 21st railway centuary and realise that the only way to work is to work as a team and maybe we can succeed as a team.
Your statement about a lot of good will from the people running EWS, Can you point them out to me please cause I have yet to meet any one running the company that has any.
Just my view from someone from a small DB depot.
Les