The BeerTrain

I was working in Rail House, Crewe, planning all the Charter services for Res/EWS when the idea of a central office was proposed. The final choice of Doncaster pleasing no-one in the offices at Crewe or Nottingham (most of us had already relocated once already when our offices moved away form London!). I had just finished training all the staff in the Charter trains section & we were finally fully staffed - however within weeks of the announcement of "everyone should move to Doncaster" most of our staff decided to go back to previous posts in the West Midlands or North West, even if they were lower graded. A huge number of the experienced staff also didn't see Doncaster as a viable option. It became clear over 2 or 3 "brain-storming to set up the new office" meetings, held in a local hostelry with free Beer all evening as the enticement to attend, that the Canadian couple in charge of setting up the office were NOT going to take notice of anything we told th...