DSMs: Penny Pinching or Desperate to Please?

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DSMs desperate to justify their existence are devising schemes to save money for LU in these stringent times. But, fortunately, they are making a mockery of themselves and the whole process by taking it a bit far.

Has anyone noticed that first aid boxes on stations have been removed and replaced with a notice saying we suddenly only need one per 50 staff? In an extraordinary by-pass of common sense, DSMs don’t seem to have realised that the main purpose of first aid boxes is for use on customers! And we have a good deal more than 50 of them. Hundreds of thousands a day, in fact!

Is LU so desperate to save money that they will penny-pinch on essential safety items? It’s been known before. Or is this just a case of a DSM over-eager to impress in order to save his job?

It raises an issue around this reorganisation though. LU have cleverly included one rather popular element in their current plans: the reduction in the number of seemingly useless DSMs. This is superficially popular and common-sense. But as it comes alongside nonsensical and disruptive reorganisation of station groups, and the reduction of hundreds of stations jobs, we are wholeheartedly opposed to the entire plan. Maybe we could do without some DSMs, but LU should look at creating new CSAs jobs in their place.

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