Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Do all Dublin Bus drivers hate their jobs or just life in general?
Options
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
Cookie_Monster wrote: »which it goes past but not into. that roundabout and the roads either side are Ballybrack.
Firstly, I didn't say "into", but that's neither here nor there. Secondly, the bus driver said he didn't go to Louglinstown, which even if we take your point into consideration, you expect him to have enough cop on to know he does.
Thirdly and probably most importantly - the area in question could in theory be classed as three seperate areas.
If we were to use the old way of naming areas (going by the local post office), it would be classed as Killiney.
If we were to use the Local Parish as the decider, it would be Loughlinstown (from the early 80s), and before that it would have been Ballybrack.
But sure, since most of the houses there are county council houses, shouldn't we use the address they put on the area? If so.... it's Loughlinstown.
Oh and then there is of course the local community - who use the small river as a guide (just like the liffey) to the border between Loughlinstown and Ballybrack - but that's just snobbery....
Regardless of all this, if you ask a bus a driver to drop you even remotely close to an area, they shouldn't argue with you over it.
Yeah, if they are concerned, they could offer advice - not argue and certainly not with a local!0 -
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
apologies, "through", not "into" is what you said.
Firstly, I didn't say "into", but that's neither here nor there.
It doesn't and he was right.Secondly, the bus driver said he didn't go to Louglinstown, which even if we take your point into consideration, you expect him to have enough cop on to know he does.
It could but it isn't.Thirdly and probably most importantly - the area in question could in theory be classed as three seperate areas.Regardless of all this, if you ask a bus a driver to drop you even remotely close to an area, they shouldn't argue with you over it.
So if you got in Bray and asked to go to Monkstown and the driver said nothing, you think that's ok, even though it goes no-where near there.Yeah, if they are concerned, they could offer advice - not argue and certainly not with a local!
He was right, you are wrong. Get over it.0 -
-
paulm17781 wrote: »OP, you are right, he should not have gotten a paper and no, he is no "entitled" to do this. He can do this before he starts or on his break, not during his shift. I would report him for this. I despise this sense of entitlement people seem to have. What he is entitled to do, is drive the bus until his break and get commuters to work.
Now, I am expecting to get flamed for having an expectation that someone does their job properly, but that's what happens here... :rolleyes:
Well I can be very critical of Dublin Bus sometimes, and certainly there is an element among the staff that don't help their own cause.
But when a driver cannot put his arm out the window and accept a freely offered morning newspaper to read during his break, without being marked for report to his employer, then society has gone mad. What are you hoping, that he will be sacked from his job, or maybe you'd be like Uday Hussein, and have him simply 'disappear,' to be tortured, shot and thrown into the Liffey?
You had similar arrogant attitudes to taxi drivers some time back, if I remember. You need to learn to distinguish, that just because there are a bad element driving buses, or taxis, or doing any job under the sun, and you occasionally encounter them, that the large majority are ordinary decent people doing a thankless job, many of whom go out of their way to be helpful and polite.
Too many good and decent drivers leave the job after two years or so, because they get fed up day after day having to put up with the stupid, small minded arrogance of petty people who cannot sort out their own problems, and instead try to create problems for everyone else around them. I have to say, if I was a Dublin Bus driver, and someone was rude to me because I dared to take a free newspaper through the window, they would get a bloody great Foxtrot Oscar from me, no matter how polite I generally try to be in life.
Jesus Christ, the country is screwed because of really, deeply serious problems, and this is the petty nonsense that people go on with. Look, get your head together and sort out your own life, and stop making this country more of a miserable, pointless hellhole than it already is. What the bloody hell are we all alive on this Earth for, anyway? To be robots??? The guy took a free paper offered to him through the window! My Jesus... 0 -
Shock! Flamed for having high exceptions of people! How did I not see this coming? Oh wait, I did. :rolleyes:
I'm critical of anyone who doesn't do their job properly and feels they are "entitled" to do what they like. They are not. This is true of all walks of society, unfortunately Irish society is rife with this kind of carry on and needs to stop.
The reason I suggest the OP complain is because the driver A) should focus on driving
has no right to talk to a customer that way. If I spoke to my customers that way, I would have no business.
At what point did your version of events happen? According to the OP, the driver stopped the bus and called the Metro guy over. This is not the same as accepting one through the window (which I suspect they are not allowed to do).
Perhaps you are happy with a mediocre badly functioning society, I am not.0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
:P
Yes, you implied a lot about me, based on nothing and making vast assumptions about me while posting nonsense about how I am "arrogant" for expecting people to do their jobs to a high standard and further attacked me, personally, for having issue with this, yet never mentioned the bus driver in the OP was wrong. That is what I meant by people like you, I'm not sure what ":p" was supposed to mean other than if you quote someone out of context, it apparently makes some point. I'll say it again "People like you who will defend someone in the wrong disgust me."
Do people like me who have an expectation that someone does their job to a high standard disgust you?It's a two way street, is it not? To quote the topic from the OP, I'm sure they would like their jobs better if all their passengers were pleasant. Sadly, they're not. You can't tell one side to lift their game if the other won't do so at the same time. :cool:
That is a good point. I often have to deal with unhappy customers, I try to appease them, not shout at them. I agree, a lot of passengers could be more pleasant (I always say hello and thank you to the driver, it's called manners). The problem is that the passengers aren't representing their companies with their demeanor, if they were, you'd bet they'd be a lot more polite. It's a culture in DB, CIE in fact, from the management down which needs to change. I don't doubt bus driving is a stressful job but this doesn't change that the driver is not "entitled" to shout out the window to get a free paper while working.
0 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Advertisement