Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
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
Workplace morale heads down: 70% of Americans negative about their jobs, Gallup study shows - NY Daily News
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
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
Workplace morale heads down: 70% of Americans negative about their jobs, Gallup study shows - NY Daily News
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
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
TriMet budget's good news: No fare increases (again), better service, new buses | OregonLive.com
TriMet budget's good news: No fare increases (again), better service, new buses | OregonLive.com
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.
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.
Friday, February 28, 2014
TriMet is committed to equity and affordability: Guest opinion | OregonLive.com
TriMet is committed to equity and affordability: Guest opinion | OregonLive.com
I've met with and conversed with Mr Bell and believe he is genuinely trying to do the right thing.
But I do want to say this: You cannot survive as a Trimet executive by challenging anything that the top executives (mcfarlane) are doing or saying. Reading material that is written by any member of the Trimet white collar staff needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
I've met with and conversed with Mr Bell and believe he is genuinely trying to do the right thing.
But I do want to say this: You cannot survive as a Trimet executive by challenging anything that the top executives (mcfarlane) are doing or saying. Reading material that is written by any member of the Trimet white collar staff needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
New Portland Light Rail Bridge strings across the Willamette (Photos) | OregonLive.com
New Portland Light Rail Bridge strings across the Willamette (Photos) | OregonLive.com
Let me start this by saying I am not a 'right wing anti transit tea bagger'.
If you must know I voted green party in the last election. Those people that attempt to paint everyone who has opposite opinions from themselves as "nuts' are nothing but the 'liberal' (for lack of a better word) example of the same thing they accuse the tea baggers of. Intolerance and closed mindedness.
No matter how many pretty pictures they produce, not matter how many 'socially relevant' names or contests to find names, this is a pork project costing $1.5 billion to a town that already had transit service ,it adds nothing to the already existing network.
There are so many places that could have used that $1.5 billion to actually improve transit services rather than change them from one mode to the other.
Pork Definition:
"""1: Personally motivated spending of government funds by politicians. Spending the wealth of the people but not in the interests of the people."""
Truthfully ask yourselves, who exactly is this project benefiting? It's sure not the people who use transit that much is obvious.
Let me start this by saying I am not a 'right wing anti transit tea bagger'.
If you must know I voted green party in the last election. Those people that attempt to paint everyone who has opposite opinions from themselves as "nuts' are nothing but the 'liberal' (for lack of a better word) example of the same thing they accuse the tea baggers of. Intolerance and closed mindedness.
No matter how many pretty pictures they produce, not matter how many 'socially relevant' names or contests to find names, this is a pork project costing $1.5 billion to a town that already had transit service ,it adds nothing to the already existing network.
There are so many places that could have used that $1.5 billion to actually improve transit services rather than change them from one mode to the other.
Pork Definition:
"""1: Personally motivated spending of government funds by politicians. Spending the wealth of the people but not in the interests of the people."""
Truthfully ask yourselves, who exactly is this project benefiting? It's sure not the people who use transit that much is obvious.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
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