toastpotent:

4dshadow:

tilthat:

TIL in 2016, a Spanish train conductor requested the company he worked for to send someone to relieve him at the end of his shift. When the company failed to do so, the conductor had the train stop in a village and simply went home, leaving 109 passengers stranded.

via reddit.com

“Disgruntled passengeres were issued a refund due to the delay, but a spokesman for train diver union Semaf said the conductor’s actions were ‘in keeping with the legal requirements.’

“Drivers are not allowed at the controls for longer than 5 and a half hours straight,” he said. “He repeatedly told headquarters that he was coming to the end of his shift and would go into overtime but received no answer, so he had to stop.”

even besides the fact that this worker was legally within his rights to leave and that it was the company’s fault for not putting in a replacement. would you want to be on a train driven by an employee who was overworked and exhausted? because personally i value my safety