He said the tests were standard across the rail industry and \u201cconsidered good practice\u201d, adding: \u201cIt ensures we have safe and competent people driving Edinburgh\u2019s trams.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Please don\u2019t vomit all over your keyboard, people. This is what modern business deals with \u2013 and the bigger the business the worse the crap is that they spout. Councils simply take it to the next cringe level and beyond.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t think that it is cost-effective, either. They\u2019ve got to employ bouncers to keep people off the trams while the tests are being conducted (so they\u2019re not written tests \u2013 they\u2019re based on observation). I have a feeling that the source may have got its wires crossed here (or written its story poorly) and be talking about a separate kind of testing (i.e. of the carriage, not the driver), because for some unexplained reason (I guess you\u2019d know if you were a tram driver), further additional staff are to be employed, tasked with:<\/p>\n
\u2026sitting in on test runs through the city centre as trams stop at each of the 16 stations and open their doors to ensure the mechanisms are working correctly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You couldn\u2019t make it up. Why make something so simple so complicated? The answer, unfortunately, is contained in the word \u201ccouncil\u201d which \u2013 by definition \u2013 means using 10 or more people where one would suffice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve mentioned oxymorons before, so seeing the phrase \u201cpersonality test\u201d in the same sentence as \u201cScottish\u201d did initially make me do a double take. The article itself is even more amusing. Apparently, Edinburgh tram drivers will have to take a personality test to identify \u201crisk takers\u201d and weed them out. Reading between the lines (no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}