I am not your punching bag, door mat, toilet, or escape. I am only trying to do my job. Please do not assume I can solve all your problems as I am very busy and if you want or need someone to hold your hand, please call your mother. Do not curse, scream and or threaten me with harm if you are offended by the truth. It is time to grow up, put on some responsibility panties and get out of my way. I have just as much right to be here as you do. Do not go out of your way to make my day even more thankless than it already is please. If you only knew what it is you are doing and how many people it does harm. Well, some of you do. But you don’t care. And you do it regularly. You know who you are. All of you have some kind of clout in a way because this town does not care about anyone or anything but the status quo. It has always been under my thumb for this town against us, at every turn. We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. We are vilified by everyone and their dog, and the guilty until proven innocent is always the way it goes. We are spied upon, eavesdropped on, denied benefits and privileges, assaulted in a multitude of ways. We are terminated often without just cause, and left penniless without concern of our well being. We are denied time that is owed us and made to suffer because of it. We are at the mercy of all, and often fear for our lives. God help us. —sighhh!
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2016.
OMG… who are you?
are you a tip jar at a barista counter?
You would swear this city is filled with nothing but helpless victims! WTF is wrong with people?!
I’m going to take a wild guess Charlie Brown and say transit drivers. Sounds just about right.
So what’s your point?
Mom?
Someone needs a trip to french kiss the Blarney Stone!
Yes dear?
“Do not curse, scream and or threaten me with harm if you are offended by the truth.” – I never thought of bus drivers as a source of information that could offend people. I’m putting my money on the Journalist Union currently threatening to strike.
Ever see what happens when the driver tells the fraudulent pass/transfer holder the truth about his/her fraudulent afore mentioned things?
That’s still not a matter of truth, that’s just a bus driver exerting the small amount of authority he/she has. Bus drivers aren’t oracles, they drive buses. Only bus bunnies and other bus drivers care about what bus drivers think. Now journalism is defiantly a profession where your opinion can get you death threats, and in other parts of the world, dead.
Not so. I have very good observation and listening skills, and have witnessed it myself many times. People do go ape shit when they are caught and confronted with the truth. People today are rude, entitled, mean, selfish, the list goes on and on. Develop better seeing and listening skills before you label anyone. Try putting yourself in their shoes. I know it is practically impossible for narrow minded, ignorant people to actually be able to accomplish such a feat. They are too full of self importance to ever be able to see past their noses. My Uncle and Aunt are both drivers and you would probably get fired before your first pay out of training. Not as easy as it looks. They just make it look easy to all the ignoramuses out there.
Everyone’s job is harder than it appears to be from the outside, I fail to see why bus drivers deserve special victim status.
fragnol intoned “…Everyone’s job is harder than it appears to be from the outside, I fail to see why bus drivers deserve special victim status..”
You don’t see many accountants or baristas physically assaulted on the job…
Right, but their jobs are still harder than they look like from the outside. Also in my nearly two decades of bus riding I’ve only only ever witnessed one case of violence against a bus driver, and that was because he antagonized a passenger by grabbing the hat off of his head after a short argument over fare. People rob convenience stores and restaurants with weapons more often then they assault bus drivers. And those clerks get about half the pay, and don’t have a union to back them up. But if bus drivers really feel that they have the hardest jobs, and nobody likes them, perhaps they could strike again. Another strike at the expense of the poor and disabled would go a long way for their public image, IMHO.