South West Trains sack safety conscious stationmaster

Last train for station master Faletto

Here's another corporate moron deftly displaying super arrogance when it comes to health and safety laws and regulations. Every time we get such things happening, the company concerned says it is doing it for the community, the staff, the customers, Uncle Tom Cobley and all. But they're not. They are doing it for themselves. Or more correctly to safeguard themselves from any perceived lawsuit. So they are really slimy self-interested souls looking after number one. I do wish it would stop.

Lymington Stationmaster Ian Faletto has been sacked by South West Trains after pulling a shopping trolley dumped by vandals off the track. He simply wanted to stop the possibility of a tremendous train crash. It seems he was spotted on the track by CCTV. Mr Faletto said, ‘I can’t believe it after all I have done for them. What I did prevented an accident which could have derailed a train and injured passengers. I saw the trolley on the line and managed to remove it before the first train arrived that morning. Health and safety rules have gone too far when you prevent an accident and get sacked for it. I just want my job back.’

There's an irony here, that's for sure. Network Rail has finally owned up to the Potters Bar crash as being their fault, or their predecessor's (Railtrack). It took many years of legal wrangling to get the wretched corporates to see that they had been sloppy on the job. People got killed, yet it was the nature (now seemingly part of corporate DNA) of the company to try to blame others or wriggle out of responsibility.

What would South West Trains say if a driver had taken a train over the shopping trolley? What if death and injury had been caused? I don't think I'd put a bet on it, but I sense they'd try to blame somebody else. This health and safety is nothing of the sort on many occasions. It is all about fear of litigation. So the mean-minded, self-interested management sack a worker because he cares about his station, his staff, his customers. And he cared about his company.

There is a petition to get Mr.Faletto re-instated. Customers are outraged by the sacking. South West Trains is owned by Stagecoach plc. Maybe we could have a better approach. South West Trains can hardly afford such adverse publicity. They have a history of it. Punctuality declining. Price rises. Overcrowded trains. Overcrowded trains? According to this website South West trains tried to get a commuter arrested under anti-terrorist laws for photographing overcrowded trains.

Do we need corporate bosses like these? They give capitalism a bad name. They stifle free enterprise and they sniff their noses up at entrepreneurs. They need a good thrashing!


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Health worker sacked for making cheeky joke as she straddled naked patient was unfairly dismissed

A nurse who cracked a saucy joke as she helped to restrain a patient having an epileptic fit was unfairly fired, the Appeal Court has ruled. Laura Bowater, 34, quipped, 'It's been a few months since I have been in this position with a man underneath me' as she straddled his naked body while doctors tried to give him an injection. The trousers of the 'extremely strong' 31-year-old patient had been removed so doctors could inject his buttock and Ms Bowater sat on his ankles to control his flailing legs.

So reports the Daily Mail. They go on to say that a panel at Watford Employment Tribunal upheld her unfair dismissal claim but North West London Hospitals NHS Trust successfully challenged it at the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The NHS Trust did what? Who works for these outfits? Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, herself a former nurse, called the sacking insane. I get the impression that insanity is a top requisite for working in the NHS these days.

These are the great and the good who run this trust. Any of them put down insanity as a CV page turner? They should hang their heads in shame.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353595/Nurse-Laura-Bowater-sacked-lewd-comments-unfairly-dismissed.html#ixzz1D80aGG2e