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Best thing
Workplace culture and cheap travel (staff pass and train travel) flexibility of shifts and changes are made if asked for
Worst thing
Lack of pay for the responsibility that we have, condition of vehicles and no respect from senior management
First Bus Driver, March 2024
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Best thing
Driving and meeting different people
Worst thing
Traffic
First Bus Driver, March 2024
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Best thing
Talking to people who come on the bus
Worst thing
None
First Bus Bus driver, March 2024
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Best thing
Driving
Worst thing
Treated with disrepect, abused by the public, not supported and backed up by line managers. Number of bullying line managers
First Bus Driver, January 2024
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Best thing
Shift pattern
Worst thing
Sat along time
First Bus Bus driver, December 2023
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Best thing
Getting paid
Worst thing
Unpaid time, unpaid breaks, unfair management.
First Bus Employee, December 2023
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Best thing
Long weekends. Discounts
Worst thing
Management, public
First Bus Bus driver, November 2023
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Best thing
Get to drive around all day
Worst thing
Passengers
First Bus Bus driver, October 2023
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Best thing
The other drivers and the adoption pay
Worst thing
Maintenance of the older vehicles
First Bus Driver, October 2023
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Best thing
The little team I’m apart of
Worst thing
That the slt have no idea what goes on
First Bus Operations supervisor, October 2023
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Best thing
People, diversity of the work
Worst thing
Getting people to make a decision and getting correct qualitt parts there on time as required
First Bus Employee, September 2023
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Best thing
Go to work, drive, go home.
Worst thing
The passengers.
First Bus Bus driver, August 2023
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Best thing
Free bus pass
Worst thing
Stress, managers, working hours
First Bus Bus driver, July 2023
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Best thing
Easiest driving job you'll ever do, and it's a job for life anywhere you go. Everyone gets on and you get to go home everyday. Loads of benefits and really good pay.
Worst thing
Passengers who are as sharp as a marble and as lazy as a rock, whing and moan if they don't get their way, take all their grievences with the company out on you and find every conceivable way to delay you no matter how many times we tell em to be ready, read the timetable and be on time. Cyclists are always trying to ruin your day by risking your license and their lives without a care for theirs, yours or your passengers' safety. And the usual communication gap between you and the corporation who decide to just change all the fares and times without telling anyone (...twice.)
First Bus Bus driver, July 2023
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Best thing
Going home
Worst thing
Going to work
First Bus Bus driver, July 2023
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Best thing
Free travel
Worst thing
Management don't listen to our concerns
First Bus Customer advisor, April 2023
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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