RANTINGS OF A FORMER TRIMET BUS DRIVER: A Trimet driver writes

RANTINGS OF A FORMER TRIMET BUS DRIVER: A Trimet driver writes



I find it quite ironic that so many Trimet Operators bitch about working for Trimet, yet nobody ever quits.  


~~>That's actually wrong, I quit solely because the job became tortuous for me. I would have continued working there had the management not been so fucking horrible. The truth is most people are wage slaves and can't just pick up and leave because its intolerable

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And lets be honest can we, Trimet is not honest in the training what people will be facing as a bus driver. Transit bus driving is not for everybody that's for sure. Horrible work shifts, no weekends or holidays for years, the worst runs for years. Its a shit job and if it didnt pay good nobody would do it except total losers. There already is too many total losers driving bus but at least most of the Trimet drivers are pretty damn good, and they are all there for one reason...PAY AND BENEFITS, that's it. Only a crazy person would actually aspire to drive a bus

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If Mcfarlane thinks its 'vital' to get concessions from his union employees to the level of crummy health insurance that his office workers get then he is gonna have to wait for another arbitrators decision.
There is no way we will agree to his complete annihilation of all his current retirees into this health plan he has devised that is suited to office workers.
Trimet retirees have already suffered a 20+% decrease  in their pensions, his proposal will in reality cause a 50% decrease in current retiree pensions.
Even the Greeks only suffered a 20% hair cut, Mcfarlane wants to kill his retirees.