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Work colleagues

Dealing with public

all equipment needed is provided except hand tools

canteen food is lousy

People you work with

Uncertain hours and lack of respect from management

Management.Poor dirty old buses.Long working hours.No time for yourself and family.Not much time between shift to get rest/sleep.

Do your job no one bothers you

Some members of the public

Great pay and shifts

Poor managment

Customers and colleagues

Long shifts

Most of the passengers are ok regular hours and pay

Heavy traffic timetables rude people

You get left alone

The public

Freedom, working closely with managers and discussions with schedulers.

The higher ups occasionally don't listen to us with issues regarding timetables or route hazards

The freinds you make with other drivers

As if the bosses dont listen to what we have to say

Every day is different. You can be supervising or driving.

Not always achieving the targets for the day

Stability

Uneducated management protecting recruited uneducated buddies who lie to protect uneducated management

The pay is pretty good

At this moment hours of work,shift patterns, and managers

Having to concentrate 24/7
Not doing the hours according to contract

Consistency of work. Predictability of work.

You have to work long hours for half decent earnings. Especially when being a single parent and the of source of income.

The rapport amongst drivers

Company always looking for ways to intimidate staff and sack drivers

The long weekends

High workloads, lack of support from colleagues

Practically your own boss

Cranky customers

Good pay, friendly colleagues

General public not having understanding or compassion, last minute shift changes

The team
Overall job

Shifts
Lack of communication

Driving and working with the public

constantly under scrutiny from management

Management,the way senior management run the business.

Weekly pay

Constant different shifts hard to get a routine

Long weekends.

10 hours between shifts.

Effectively your own boss. Few people to answer to and no targets to meet

Unable to control things like traffic conditions and other customer actions.

Not sat at a desk

Other road users

Driving

Not enough hours and irate passengers

Transporting people from one place to another

Traffic

Being my own boss out on the road, having plenty of overtime if I want it, treated with respect and decency

Good comrades
Good holidays
Pension
Life insurance
Progression

Working nights
Lack of support from other shifts
Dirty job

driving interacting with people

unsocial hours

Work mates. Drivers.

To many driving hours.

people I meet

the long hours

Finishing time

Dealing with the public

Driving

Shifts and unsocial hours

how friendly and helpful everyone is

travel

4 day rota

Being attacked

Colleagues. Flexibility with duty allocator.

Management, state of buses, length of time in the driving seat

Left to get on with it

Early starts

Driving. Easy enough.

Waiting 5 years to get top pay rate.

Providing a bus service to the general public

Far too many to list but the biggest 1 would be doing jobs that im not getting paid for and not been appreciated for doing it.

Pay

Your just a number

My job is generally good,

People who feel entitled

People you work with

Running times. The way the public speak to you.

Being out on the road

The pay

Every day is different

Just a number