JR Hokkaido another incident

[bikkuri bahn]

This was the top news item on local NHK TV news this evening:
Yesterday (Jan. 25), shortly before noon, a conductor (guard) on a JR Hokkaido 3-car local train bound for Otaru was seen by a passenger reading a sports newspaper while on duty.  The passenger reported this to the railway authorities.  The 62 year old conductor was apparently absorbed in a news article about Texas Rangers-bound pitcher Yu Darvish, who played for the local JPB team.  JR Hokkaido reprimanded the conductor, and is contemplating further measures.  The same employee was reprimanded for a similar incident 8 years ago, when he was caught reading manga while on duty.

Japanese article:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20120126/t10015555931000.html

[linkey]

Must be a boring line, if he needed to read the sports page. I wonder which manga that the Conductor (guard) was reading 8-yrs ago? As it could of been a server penalty if it was a bad manga :> But really sounds like JR Hokkaido is having staffing issues.

[westfalen]

Caught reading twice in eight years. Slackers like him have no place on JR.

You'd be hard pressed to find a train in Brisbane without a few newspapers in the cab.

[The_Ghan]

Caught reading twice in eight years. Slackers like him have no place on JR.

You'd be hard pressed to find a train in Brisbane without a few newspapers in the cab.

That's why QR services are always running late ....     

Cheers

The_Ghan

[westfalen]

Caught reading twice in eight years. Slackers like him have no place on JR.

You'd be hard pressed to find a train in Brisbane without a few newspapers in the cab.

That's why QR services are always running late ....     

Cheers

The_Ghan

Luckily reading the MX only takes 30 seconds.

It would be interesting to find out what the actual JR rule book says about reading on duty.

I wouldn't mind betting though that if anything had gone wrong or required his attention that conductor would have know exactly where his train was and what was going on.

[linkey]

Caught reading twice in eight years. Slackers like him have no place on JR.

You'd be hard pressed to find a train in Brisbane without a few newspapers in the cab.

That's why QR services are always running late ....     

Cheers

The_Ghan

Luckily reading the MX only takes 30 seconds.

It would be interesting to find out what the actual JR rule book says about reading on duty.

I wouldn't mind betting though that if anything had gone wrong or required his attention that conductor would have know exactly where his train was and what was going on.

Come on I can go through the MX in less than 20mins on a bad day. lol

[miyakoji]

It would be interesting to find out what the actual JR rule book says about reading on duty.

I wouldn't mind betting though that if anything had gone wrong or required his attention that conductor would have know exactly where his train was and what was going on.

I'd like to see the various rules and regulations that apply to train crews.  I'm going to assume it's lots of pages.

[westfalen]

It would be interesting to find out what the actual JR rule book says about reading on duty.

I wouldn't mind betting though that if anything had gone wrong or required his attention that conductor would have know exactly where his train was and what was going on.

I'd like to see the various rules and regulations that apply to train crews.  I'm going to assume it's lots of pages.

And if it's anything like ours it will be unintelligible even if it were in English.