Thursday, September 27, 2007
Transit Strike
It looks like we are in line for a transit strike on Monday. At least that threat has a lot of people riled up. Since I had a previous connection with the transit system I am not going to take sides or make any remarks about management or the drivers.
I have been following the remarks to the various media reports online where readers get to comment below the article. Sound off is more like it since most get to publish their dis-satisfaction or their satisfaction with the system. And of course there are the digs at the bus drivers because they are always in the way of other 'good' drivers.
What is noticable to me is how many comments there are by people who do not know anything about the transit system or how it operates. There are a number of comments about how bus drivers drive. Unless you have driven a transit bus in city traffic for a period of time, you have no idea whether it is difficult or not, or how it compares to your job. You do not know what you are talking about. In fact, even a highway bus operator's job is totally different with risks not the same as driving a transit bus in city traffic.
A transit bus operator has to think about 12 - 18 different things at a time, all the time while they are driving safely. How many things do you have to think about at the same time when you do your job?
My main purpose for this blog entry is the comments by some that bus drivers are uneducated and making too much money. Several said they have paid multi dollars for university degrees and owe money for student loans and don't make the money drivers make.
You know what? For a lot of you those degrees didn't do you a heck of a lot of good. After scanning through a hundred or so comments on a couple of these articles, I found dozens of spelling errors from the university educated comment crowd. Words were left unfinished and some sentences didn't have a lot of meaning. The spelling errors were common every day words.
I can understand a spelling error or so. I make plenty myself sometimes. But when you see a half dozen in a couple paragraphs, written by a university educated person, complaining they owe money for a couple degrees, I wonder if they are talking celsius or fahrenheit.
-=One Day At A Time=-
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I have been following the remarks to the various media reports online where readers get to comment below the article. Sound off is more like it since most get to publish their dis-satisfaction or their satisfaction with the system. And of course there are the digs at the bus drivers because they are always in the way of other 'good' drivers.
What is noticable to me is how many comments there are by people who do not know anything about the transit system or how it operates. There are a number of comments about how bus drivers drive. Unless you have driven a transit bus in city traffic for a period of time, you have no idea whether it is difficult or not, or how it compares to your job. You do not know what you are talking about. In fact, even a highway bus operator's job is totally different with risks not the same as driving a transit bus in city traffic.
A transit bus operator has to think about 12 - 18 different things at a time, all the time while they are driving safely. How many things do you have to think about at the same time when you do your job?
My main purpose for this blog entry is the comments by some that bus drivers are uneducated and making too much money. Several said they have paid multi dollars for university degrees and owe money for student loans and don't make the money drivers make.
You know what? For a lot of you those degrees didn't do you a heck of a lot of good. After scanning through a hundred or so comments on a couple of these articles, I found dozens of spelling errors from the university educated comment crowd. Words were left unfinished and some sentences didn't have a lot of meaning. The spelling errors were common every day words.
I can understand a spelling error or so. I make plenty myself sometimes. But when you see a half dozen in a couple paragraphs, written by a university educated person, complaining they owe money for a couple degrees, I wonder if they are talking celsius or fahrenheit.
-=One Day At A Time=-
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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