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6 String....consider filing, or at least have a chat to SRG. Your ATCO licence is not issued by your employer, it is issued by the CAA. I think the regulatory authority may take a dim view of the situation you describe; I suspect from your scenario that the approved emergency procedures could not have been complied with......there were no standby staff......additionally there was no cover for a whole spectrum of eventualities. Don't expect back-up from the LAS......they are no more than conduits for management pressure tactics......and of course not holding a validation removes all the safety protocols that the shopfloor "scopey" might consider relevant. I also suggest that you contact your union rep and start to note down in a diary all instances of the type you mention. IF YOU PUT UP WITH THIS IT WILL BECOME THE RULE RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION! On the day this occurred I suspect that the watch manager/watch supervisor /flow manager/Local Area supervisor all went home with a little smile on their face....."Boy we conned those wetbacks again" .......and they did , didn't they?