Originally Posted by
PETER01
I assume there must have been a valid reason and you did get an answer that it was for for operational reasons. :
As gtomlinson has said there could have been a variety of valid reasons.
'Operational reasons' is not an answer. It's managerial avoidance gobbledegook. As you then say, we don't know the actual reason and it may or may not have been considered 'valid'.