The staff taxi service on Christmas Eve night was a disgrace.
Lots of staff were left standing in the dark and cold for up to several hours, waiting for cabs that didn't arrive, making phone calls and being repeatedly fobbed off. It's just good luck that (as far as we know) nobody was badly assaulted.
It's bad enough that we are working when most of the rest of the world is partying or heading round to see family or friends. It adds insult to injury for management to leave us stranded and in danger. Some people got home barely in time for an hour's sleep before the kids got up to open their presents!
It is essential that our unions make management account for this failure, and demand guarantees that it won't happen again. Perhaps if senior managers had to rely on staff taxis rather than company taxi accounts, they might pull their fingers out!
