Promotion

Battling your way through the Tube's chaotic promotion system

LUL Looks Outside For Duty Managers

Remember LUL management saying they would endeavour to fill all posts with internal applicants? Check this out. Yes, it's an external recruitment ad for duty managers.

Tubeworker isn't about to recommend anyone cross over to the dark side and become a manager. But at least our current crop of...

Why Are We Waiting?

Applicants for SSMF have been left waiting for assessment dates due to the very high demand for drivers assessments. Yes, to assess all the external driver applicants they've been encouraging to apply!

CSAs going to drivers' assessments are reporting that they are totally outnumbered by...

Sell And Sell On pt.2

You would think that the utter chaos in the internal promotion system would make management realise that privatising it - they handed it over to Reed a few years back - was a really bad idea.

Well, LUL has noticed that Reed is crap, but has decided that the solution is not to bring the...

Why Are We Waiting?

Lots of station staff applied for the RCI jobs that were advertised a couple of months ago. And lots passed the application.

Then, nothing. No word of a training date, and rumours flying round that it might be six months or more before they get one.

Meanwhile, bang goes your ability to plan your...

Blurred Vision

Note to occupational health. When you do the sight test for someone who has achieved promotion to driver, let them wear their glasses. After all, they are hardly going to get in the cab and take their specs off, are they?!

Rumour has it that a CSA, having passed all the tests for driver, may...

That's Magic

Traffic Circular 38 contained a rather odd recruitment advert. Service Controllers wanted, should have a 'bit of magic' and the ability to 'make problems disappear'!

Could this be an admission by management that mere Muggles can not operate their system? Could that be because of impractical...

External Recruitment of SAMFs

Fancy an SAMF's job? Then pop down to your local JobCentre!

Believe the bare-faced cheek of it or not, management are actually talking about direct (ie.external) recruitment of SAMFs. Yes, this is at the same time that they are planning to get rid of 270+ SAMF positions and are making it as hard as...

Coaching for Free

As management advertise for new CRAs, they will no doubt be expecting existing CRAs to coach the newcomers. But despite having agreed in principle to pay them a coaching allowance, they are dragging their feet about actually implementing it.

While the details of the allowance's introduction sit...

References Required?

Staff applying from promotion have been flummoxed to discover that the application form asks them for names and addresses of former employers - and even for exam results from school!

Excuse us, but since we already work for LUL, management should be able to form their own judgements on us, and...

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