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Best thing
You get to see different parts of where you live.
Worst thing
Nasty passengers rotten seats management never around to speak to negativity from fellow colleagues
First Bus Bus driver, January 2023
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Best thing
Pay, other workers
Worst thing
Wage reliability, stress
First Bus Technician, January 2023
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Best thing
Getting passengers to where they want to go, safely and comfortably.
Worst thing
Shift work, especially early starts, and long Saturday duties.
First Bus Driver, December 2022
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Best thing
Other drivers
Worst thing
Management as whole
First Bus Bus driver, December 2022
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Worst thing
You'll get fiddled out of the joining incentives with a load of Ts and Cs
First Bus Driver, December 2022
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Best thing
Going home at the end of a shift
Worst thing
The pay and working conditions
First Bus Bus driver, November 2022
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Best thing
Can earn money
Worst thing
Stress stress stress
First Bus Driver, October 2022
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Best thing
Seeing different people everyday
Worst thing
Miserable pissed off customers
First Bus Bus driver, September 2022
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Best thing
No 2 days are the same, no clock watching as you're always on the move and you get to meet so many different people every day.
Worst thing
Working for First Bus. They pay the drivers as little as possible so the share holders and higher up management get maximum profit and bonuses. We are treated like numbers and there is no care if we do a good or bad job as long. Don't hit anything or anyone and management won't see you.
First Bus Bus driver, September 2022
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Best thing
Easy work
Worst thing
Customer anger and attitudes
First Bus Bus driver, August 2022
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Best thing
Driving around
Worst thing
Some TCS and passengers
First Bus Bus driver, August 2022
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Best thing
Driving, Meeting people, Learning new routes and buses
Worst thing
Work hours, Stress, abusive passengers and no toilet breaks between routes
First Bus Bus driver, August 2022
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Best thing
Differently scenery every day
Worst thing
Bad traffic
Miserable customersFirst Bus Bus driver, August 2022
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Best thing
I get to drive around
Meet some nice people
Good colleagues
Plenty of hours
Nice bonus for working overtime
Weekly payWorst thing
Its stressful
Understaffed
Long hours
Short breaks
Staggered shifts every week
Allocated holiday and its hard to change
Most buses don't have air con
Abuse from passengers
Not much time to complete routes
Telematics make driving hard
Days off are not ideal sometimesFirst Bus PCV driver, August 2022
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Best thing
All the benefits
Worst thing
The shifts
First Bus Driver, August 2022
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Best thing
Variety, camaraderie with other drivers, being out and about
Worst thing
Low wages for high responsibilities. Long hours, unpaid breaks, unpaid link-time, and unpaid walking time. Harsh sickness policy. Shift working hours disrupting sleep and family patterns
First Bus Bus driver, July 2022
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Best thing
Easy to do, meeting different people everyday, nobody looking over your shoulder all of the time.
Worst thing
Rules, rules and more rules to make the job harder than it should be, treated like we can't think for ourselves, traffic and other road users in general.
First Bus Bus driver, July 2022
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Best thing
Colleagues
Worst thing
Nepotism and management incompetence.
Managers will always blame everyone and everything else for their failing.
First Bus Driver, May 2022
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Best thing
Meeting new people
Free travelWorst thing
Poor upper management
Splits between what staff are paidFirst Bus Bus driver, December 2021
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Best thing
Driving
Worst thing
Having to shout at people
First Bus Driver, December 2021
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Best thing
Meeting customers
Worst thing
late change of shifts
First Bus Supervisor, October 2021
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Best thing
Customers and other drivers are friendly
Worst thing
Managment
First Bus Bus driver, September 2021
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Best thing
Easy good people to work with
Worst thing
Dead end job low pay
First Bus Employee, July 2021
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Worst thing
Hours and work patterns.
90 mins each shift unpaid breaks
Management that are out to get you rather than show support.First Bus Bus driver, July 2021
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Best thing
Live within walking to work wife gets free bus travel
Worst thing
Hours unpredictable starting and finishing work
First Bus Driver, July 2021
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Best thing
Meeting new people and the people I work with are good company
Worst thing
Night shift. Getting the drunk people and their bad behaviour.
First Bus Driver, July 2021
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Best thing
You not stuck indoors...driving around can be good and helps time to pass quickly
Worst thing
The general public
First Bus Driver, July 2021
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Best thing
I find it hard to give a best thing about it. Work mates [Bus drivers] is the only good thing.
Worst thing
Hours to long.39.5hrs to 48 most days.
First Bus Bus driver, July 2021
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Best thing
Driving
Worst thing
Dealing with back office staff
First Bus Driver, June 2021
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Best thing
my work mates . Driving as i love driving
Worst thing
everything else the work place the managers
First Bus Bus driver, June 2021
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Best thing
The open road
Worst thing
Work hours, some of the passengers, some of the managers. Low morale, stress
First Bus Driver, June 2021
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Best thing
Problem solving
Worst thing
Small minded people
First Bus Operations supervisor, May 2021
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Best thing
Outdoors. Being able to do school run due to shift start time.
Worst thing
One Saturday rest day off in 5 weeks
Poor pay.First Bus Service engineer, May 2021
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Best thing
Driving
Worst thing
Pay and not enough family time
First Bus Bus driver, May 2021
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Best thing
Easy
Family atmosphere
Pays well
Job safetyWorst thing
Bad home work balance
Set holidaysFirst Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
Weekly pay overtime
Worst thing
Cold old buses
First Bus Driver, April 2021
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Best thing
Regular pay
Worst thing
Irregular shift patterns
First Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
Time off... When you get some.
Worst thing
Pay cuts.
First Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
I really enjoy driving, especially driving a bus round my home city of Glasgow.
As a driver on the top rate of pay. My money is better than most bus drivers in the Glasgow area, although it should be better for the stress and pressure you have to put up with. The whole bus industry is underpaid.Worst thing
Unrealistic running times on busy bus routes set by the company.
Closure of our canteen without any consultation from staff.
Very little margin for error given by management towards drivers.
(Were all human afterall. Everyone makes mistakes)
Being totally ignored when asking for a holiday. (Apart from Scheduled block weeks/fortnights off) turned down EVERY TIME!First Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
Cheap train tickets colleagues
Worst thing
Shift patterns rarely get two days off together management no clue about what is going on
First Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
The people I work with.
Worst thing
The condition of the buses
First Bus Bus driver, April 2021
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Best thing
Camaraderie between colleagues. Variety of the role and mixture of people.
Worst thing
Hours worked. Constant rota shift changes.
First Bus Driver, March 2021
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Best thing
Good rate of pay and working conditions
Worst thing
Shifts
First Bus Bus station supervisor, March 2021
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Best thing
Easy work , meeting people and being left alone to do the job
Worst thing
Hours can be quite rubbish and occasionally you get some unruly passengers
First Bus Driver, March 2021
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Best thing
I love driving and being able to work any shift and it not cause any stress or too much work
Worst thing
Members of the public antics
First Bus Bus driver, March 2021
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Best thing
Shifts mainly fit around family
Worst thing
Some really long days
First Bus Bus driver, March 2021
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Best thing
meeting people
Worst thing
managers that don't know what is involoved in you're job
First Bus covid warden, March 2021
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Best thing
My 3 days off
Worst thing
Duties
First Bus Driver, March 2021
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Best thing
Out and about all day
Worst thing
Management
First Bus Bus driver, March 2021
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Best thing
working on your own, good colleagues, the social club.
Worst thing
not enough holidays, not enough days off, rotas, 10p a year wage rise, out of date or cheap equipment, abuse off customers, no support from management.
First Bus PCV driver, February 2021