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Train passengers unable to use ticket machines after employee sleeps in
Passengers at a train station in Tokyo were unable to use the ticket machines and automatic ticket gates for 30 minutes early Thursday morning because a station worker slept in, railway officials said.
The trouble occurred at Nogata Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line when a 57-year-old worker failed to wake up for his morning shift, which started at 4:14 a.m., because he forgot to set his alarm clock.
Passengers were unable to use the ticket machines and automatic ticket gates for half an hour, but since they were able to pass through a gap at the side of the ticket gates, no passengers missed their trains.
Seibu Railway officials said that the worker, whose name was withheld, woke up 40 minutes past the time he was supposed to start work, preventing about 30 people from using the ticket gates before the arrival of three trains, starting with the first train leaving the station at 4:45 a.m.
Officials said the employee had been working until 10:29 p.m. the previous day, and stayed over at the station by himself. There was only one person working at the station early in the morning, and a worker at the nearby Saginomiya Station was supposed to call and check that he had woken up, but no call was received.
I wonder if he uses the same alarm clock as me :P