Ali-Crom...Fact or fiction you ask? The only fiction here is that you've changed the names!The sorry state of affairs is that the regulatory authorities are failing to regulate. If that's not bad enough,they have now, in response to the worldwide shortage of engineers, lowered the standards to allow limited CRS authorisations to be issued to anyone capable of using a photocopier, all controlled by the maintenance organisations themselves. They charge you a fee to hold a licence,in return for which you are expected to police your own employer's violations, which could result in you losing your job for blowing the whistle.Little wonder nobody is reporting what goes on. Presumeably the regulatory authorities work on the principle that no news is good news. Unfortunately we are going to have to suffer the fate of the railway industry before we will see any improvement.I just hope the good guys amongst us can weather the storm ahead.Nice to see you all putting the message across in this post.