Re: NSW Guards and Mobiles

[Marvin The Martian <choochoo72@mailcity.com>]

As a guard I find the pagers good, we know where there are delays almost right
away and what the cause is.

Anita Lukaszyk wrote:

> Those pagers are the biggest waste of money. I was working at Seven
> Hills a few weeks ago. I gave my Roster Clerk a call to see if any work
> had come up (I'm on standby there) and he said that I should have gotten
> a message about 09:00 (it was after 11:30 when I called) to go to
> Central on the next available train as they had "a problem" there. He
> said he's resend the message anyway.
>
> I ended up getting the first message around 12:00, and the second
> message about 12:30. I found out at Central that they were just testing
> to see how fast the standby CSA's could get to Central in case of a real
> emergency. The last of the 100 odd Standby CSA's arrived at ~13:00.
>
> Erk wrote:
> >
> > So keeping my original post in mind and Marvin's reply, is it safe to assume
> > that the Terrorgraph's article is a management piece of propaganda or just
> > another attempt by the Terrorgraph to sell more papers etc (ie do the usual
> > beat up's they do)?
> >
> > I'm not a guard so I'm not aware of the full story but there seems to be
> > some memo out on this topic (according to you know who) and two different
> > stories.
> >
> > Is this the case with pagers I've read about too?
>
> --
> Anita Lukaszyk
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