(24 Jul 2022, 6:55 pm)omnicity4659 wrote There's still over 100 pre-planned cancellations from depots other than Washington.How many staff does that 100 journeys equate to? How many spare drivers are carried to allow for sickness? What percentage sickness is budgeted for compared to the sickness rate now?
Does Go North East consider not having enough drivers to cover 100 journeys as "over-staffing", or is this more twaddle from the spin machine?
You can be overstaffed on paper, but if your sickness rate is high, that's going to lead to missing journeys. You don't notice if a supermarket is missing some staff; you might have to queue longer at the till, but that's all. If someone doesn't turn up to drive a bus, it doesn't go out, and you notice that straight away.