On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:44:18 -0400, posted for all of us to
digest...

It has more to do with the quality of the drivers they can get for
that ****ty job in spite of a pretty good compensation package.
Most school bus drivers don't last that long.
The guy who manages them was losing his mind too.
I got caught in the middle of a few neighbors really ****ed about
having buses driving by their house all day and the manager who was
listening to people complaining all day.
We got along OK because I never really complained and I tried to take
the reality back to some asshole neighbors. The manager and I actually
became pretty good friends and we talked a lot. I think he just liked
one person in his life who wasn't bitching at him all the time. I did
learn a lot about the bus system and the drivers.


That's true. I still see signs the districts/companies needing drivers.

The managers get all sorts of calls: the bus is late, early, not here, I don't
like that stop, etc. It is one of those jobs of serving disgruntled people and
disgruntled drivers and disgruntled administration. I always tried to stay on
their good side because I heard the cacophony of the office.

The early mechanic had to run around and start all the bus' in the cold weather
and work on the ones that didn't until the board finally approved block heaters
and associated wiring and infrastructure. Then the drivers would forget to hook
them up and complain it wasn't in the contract and then they had to check the
bus for trash and sleeping kids and complained that wasn't in the contract,
then they had to post a sign in the back to indicate they had checked it and
complained it wasn't in the contract... They had hazmat paks for kid puke...

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Tekkie