I seem to recall seeing an item at work that said that station staff
doing gateline duty could order gloves with a special pocket sewn into
them to allow for easier use of Oyster based gate permits.
Why don't staff have station gate passes instead of using their personal
Oysters to assist people? It must really mess up the managements attempts to
watch where and when they travel, you could catch out early finishers or
late starters dead easily

At the time we had a mix of staff and some annual travelcard holders
taking part in the trial and absolutely no one wanted to give the cards
back as they found them so much more convenient.
Ditto, though it's cost me a couple of zones off my all zones travelcard
from NR to get one it's slightly cheaper and a lot more convenient.

I understand that the very first Oyster Cards interfered with shop
security systems so some people had rather embarrassing discussions with

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