> On Sep 12, 6:21Â pm, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 Sep, 10:01, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 11, 11:53 pm, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> T&GWU), who "want a standard £30,000 rate of pay for drivers across
>>>> the bus network" (so says the BBC webpage linked to below).
>
>>> 30K? Oh is that all. Perhaps they'd like share options while they're
>>> at it?
>
>>> Bus driving is for retarded cretins, why should they get 30K for doing
>>> a job a trained chimp could do?
>
>> Are you a retarded cretin or a trained chimp?
>
> You obviously are a retard and have the brain cells of a chimp to post
> a comment like that for all to see!
>
> As a bus driver it takes approxamatley 8 - 12 weeks on meger pay to
> actually gain the license and the we have to put up with arseholes
> like yourselves on a daily basis, this does not include the black cab
> drivers the mini cab drivers and the so called other road users who
> seem to enjoy playing russian roulette with a 12 tons bus and then
> wonder why the driver gets irrate and when we do have an accident its
> always the bus drivers fault that the idiot in the car pulled out in
> front of them or cut them up or jump the lights or cut in front of
> them.
>
> We run the daily guanlet of abuse from idiot passengers who think you
> are tourist information and then get abusive when you cannot help them
> plan a route around the country for them, and the idiots who think TFL
> run a free service and you are there daily taxi and not a bus service,
> then the kids who seem to think that just because they have a reciept
> from the post office to say they have applied 6 months ago for an
> oyster card this gives them the right to yet again abuse the poor
> driver as they think they can travel for free with a reciept because
> the idiot at the post office said they could when infact they cant.
>
> We deserve danger money let alone 30k a year for providing a service
> that should we all decide to go on strike the underground would not be
> able to cope and London would be brought to a stand still, if thats
> what it takes then that is what we are willing to do to be appreciated
> for the job that we do.
I do hope that you actually intended to direct your venom against
Boltar rather than against me - my comment that you replied to was a
mere one line riposte to Boltar's comments. You will see from my
earlier comments that I do have some sympathy with the bus drivers for
the trials and tribulations that they must endure.