Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Commuters?Being the privatised cash-cow for shareholders that the railway is - everything now revolves around money. If a train is cancelled, short-formed or even dirty (hard to believe!) the operating company is fined.
There is a whole industry that tries each day to aportion blame for each delay.etc between the Train Operating Companies, Network Rail and other 'interested parties'.
This is big business - for each delay minute, the company responsible is fined £110. Now imagine what would happen if you caused 4000 delay minutes by shutting down London Bridge station, in the morning peak. That's around £500,000 in delay payments.
Opps.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 6:47,
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