(21 Jan 2025, 10:22 pm)Storx wrote No-one cares basically. Once management alienate the staff to the stage of strikes it always happens. No doubt be a lot of working to rule for anyone who doesn't love the job and it ends up with the mess like now and that's ignoring those who bolted.

Sad because they actually had some decent staff in the past ie. Dan on here but seems most have gone now. Heard a lot of the old guard were lost with the Chester Le Street farce aswell. 

The only people who like GoNorthEast are the fanatics around who can't take criticism. Not worth talking to people like that though as you'll just get abuse for stating facts. The public certainly don't and are a lot more vocal than on here. 

Arriva isn't much better tbh for similar reasons but least they seem to be on the up a bit after the takeover.

Most of the real old hands at Chester were offered and took severance when it closed. There were a few long servers who weren't quite old enough to retire at the time who went to Washington.

Can't remember the exact numbers, but if I recall, best part of sixty went to Washington, best part of forty to Consett, about fifteen to Riverside and ten to Deptford. Two and a bit years on, by my count, there's about forty still at Washington, twenty or so still at Consett, less than ten at Riverside and maybe half a dozen at Deptford. I'd describe Chester as having had an ageing workforce at the time of closure, and, even with potential changes in industry working practices difficult to account for, I'd be impressed if there were more than twenty ex-Chester drivers still around by the time of the tenth anniversary of its closure. For context, there's still about twenty drivers between Riverside and Deptford who originated at South Shields, a considerably smaller depot which closed twenty years ago this month, and while it might be apples and oranges in terms of driver establishment size and local workforce age demographics, I don't anticipate any comparable longevity there.