First Bus job reviews

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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

  2.8

  First Bus Bus driver, January 2023

• Best thing

  Pay, other workers

  Worst thing

  Wage reliability, stress

  3.3

  First Bus Technician, January 2023

• Best thing

  Getting passengers to where they want to go, safely and comfortably.

  Worst thing

  Shift work, especially early starts, and long Saturday duties.

  3.4

  First Bus Driver, December 2022

• Best thing

  Other drivers

  Worst thing

  Management as whole

  1.7

  First Bus Bus driver, December 2022

• Worst thing

  You'll get fiddled out of the joining incentives with a load of Ts and Cs

  7.8

  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

  1.8

  First Bus Bus driver, November 2022

• Best thing

  Can earn money

  Worst thing

  Stress stress stress

  2.3

  First Bus Driver, October 2022

• Best thing

  Seeing different people everyday

  Worst thing

  Miserable pissed off customers

  9.8

  First Bus Bus driver, September 2022

• 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.

  3.2

  First Bus Bus driver, September 2022

• Best thing

  Easy work

  Worst thing

  Customer anger and attitudes

  5.5

  First Bus Bus driver, August 2022

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• Best thing

  Driving around

  Worst thing

  Some TCS and passengers

  4.6

  First Bus Bus driver, August 2022

• Best thing

  Driving, Meeting people, Learning new routes and buses

  Worst thing

  Work hours, Stress, abusive passengers and no toilet breaks between routes

  8.6

  First Bus Bus driver, August 2022

• Best thing

  Differently scenery every day

  Worst thing

  Bad traffic
  Miserable customers

  3.0

  First Bus Bus driver, August 2022

• Best thing

  I get to drive around
  Meet some nice people
  Good colleagues
  Plenty of hours
  Nice bonus for working overtime
  Weekly pay

  Worst 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 sometimes

  6.4

  First Bus PCV driver, August 2022

• Best thing

  All the benefits

  Worst thing

  The shifts

  7.6

  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

  2.8

  First Bus Bus driver, July 2022

• 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.

  7.8

  First Bus Bus driver, July 2022

• Best thing

  Colleagues

  Worst thing

  Nepotism and management incompetence.

  Managers will always blame everyone and everything else for their failing.

  1.2

  First Bus Driver, May 2022

• Best thing

  Meeting new people
  Free travel

  Worst thing

  Poor upper management
  Splits between what staff are paid

  8.4

  First Bus Bus driver, December 2021

• Best thing

  Driving

  Worst thing

  Having to shout at people

  6.8

  First Bus Driver, December 2021

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• Best thing

  Meeting customers

  Worst thing

  late change of shifts

  5.0

  First Bus Supervisor, October 2021

• Best thing

  Customers and other drivers are friendly

  Worst thing

  Managment

  2.4

  First Bus Bus driver, September 2021

• Best thing

  Easy good people to work with

  Worst thing

  Dead end job low pay

  5.5

  First Bus Employee, July 2021

• Worst thing

  Hours and work patterns.
  90 mins each shift unpaid breaks
  Management that are out to get you rather than show support.

  1.9

  First Bus Bus driver, July 2021

• Best thing

  Live within walking to work wife gets free bus travel

  Worst thing

  Hours unpredictable starting and finishing work

  2.0

  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.

  9.9

  First Bus Driver, July 2021

• Best thing

  You not stuck indoors...driving around can be good and helps time to pass quickly

  Worst thing

  The general public

  3.0

  First Bus Driver, July 2021

• 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.

  2.0

  First Bus Bus driver, July 2021

• Best thing

  Driving

  Worst thing

  Dealing with back office staff

  1.1

  First Bus Driver, June 2021

• Best thing

  my work mates . Driving as i love driving

  Worst thing

  everything else the work place the managers

  2.5

  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

  2.4

  First Bus Driver, June 2021

• Best thing

  Problem solving

  Worst thing

  Small minded people

  6.1

  First Bus Operations supervisor, May 2021

• 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.

  7.6

  First Bus Service engineer, May 2021

• Best thing

  Driving

  Worst thing

  Pay and not enough family time

  9.3

  First Bus Bus driver, May 2021

• Best thing

  Easy
  Family atmosphere
  Pays well
  Job safety

  Worst thing

  Bad home work balance
  Set holidays

  6.4

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

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• Best thing

  Weekly pay overtime

  Worst thing

  Cold old buses

  8.6

  First Bus Driver, April 2021

• Best thing

  Regular pay

  Worst thing

  Irregular shift patterns

  3.0

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

• Best thing

  Time off... When you get some.

  Worst thing

  Pay cuts.

  3.4

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

• 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!

  1.3

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

• Best thing

  Cheap train tickets colleagues

  Worst thing

  Shift patterns rarely get two days off together management no clue about what is going on

  7.6

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

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• Best thing

  The people I work with.

  Worst thing

  The condition of the buses

  6.4

  First Bus Bus driver, April 2021

• Best thing

  Camaraderie between colleagues. Variety of the role and mixture of people.

  Worst thing

  Hours worked. Constant rota shift changes.

  4.1

  First Bus Driver, March 2021

• Best thing

  Good rate of pay and working conditions

  Worst thing

  Shifts

  8.9

  First Bus Bus station supervisor, March 2021

• 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

  8.4

  First Bus Driver, March 2021

• 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

  8.7

  First Bus Bus driver, March 2021

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• Best thing

  Shifts mainly fit around family

  Worst thing

  Some really long days

  9.4

  First Bus Bus driver, March 2021

• Best thing

  meeting people

  Worst thing

  managers that don't know what is involoved in you're job

  6.7

  First Bus covid warden, March 2021

• Best thing

  My 3 days off

  Worst thing

  Duties

  8.4

  First Bus Driver, March 2021

• Best thing

  Out and about all day

  Worst thing

  Management

  3.0

  First Bus Bus driver, March 2021

• 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.

  1.9

  First Bus PCV driver, February 2021