D.C. Metro Bus Driver's Get Paid Exuberant Pay/OT To Drive Around In Empty Buses!
My I should have drove today! I was waiting just before the corner of 11th and F Sreets, NW for the metro bus #42 to take me to the corner of 9th and G Streets, NW about 3-4 blocks away. Well, today's my lucky day I thought as there were two #42 buses, labeled Metro Center) back-to-back. Both end the trip at the same time and both start the next trip at the same time , I observed! Was this something new?
The first one (bus #2218) keeps right on driving not in the least bit pulling over to the curb to the stop. I could not believe it. Then more unbelieveable was the second bus (#2218) right behind it and he starts to do the same until I step out yelling for him to stop. He squeals his brakes in the middle of the street. I loudly say to him when he opens the door, "do you not see people standing at the bus stop?" All hell starts to break loose! He yells back at me that the stop is not a bus stop and no one usually gets on there and it's the end of the line. Now how can it be al of those things at one time. And I remind him that it is a bus stop and the sign clearly reads "42" and he says it's my fault and I was suppose to get on the bus ahead! What the hell!!!??? Talk about an outter limit moment. How does he try to flip it around and place those two buses passing up me and other passengers as my fault? I then say, "how do you think you can get paid for riding around with empty buses?" He continues to yap and the moment I said, "I will see what the supervisors have to say," he immediately shuts down...that is, until he gets to the "real" end of the line. I say to him while getting off the bus, "I wonder how many people lose their jobs due to the foolisheness of the metro bus drivers that like to by pass riders waiting to get to work?
Once off the bus, I walk around looking for a supervisor. I have been told in the past that any of them can be seen about any issues a customer may have with a driver. I go downstairs to the Gallery Place and Metro Center substations to see about getting in contact with a street supervisor...it's amazing how clueless these station managers can be. I guess the female manager felt she did her job by giving me what I already have, the number for complaints...I tossed it to the floor. I didn't manage to find a supervisor at that time, but I will before the evening is over, I'm sure.
My goodness. I never thought I would have such disdain and feelings of ill-will for any person...but I absolutely deplore the bulk of this Metro Bus establishment. I don't even look at them when I board the buses orwhen I see one in uniform walk pass. I should have started this blog this first day I started getting on these buses. The things I see and hear of these drivers. Whe will people start to earn their paychecks. Such a waste of money for such pissy service. No control whatsoever...
Costly gas prices, risking vehicle damage/theft, possible ticketing/towing, potholes are all appearing not such a bad thing when trying to decide wheter or not to take D. C. metro transportaion.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
DC Metro Transit Thugs (Oops! Drivers): Getting Paid 100k For Service That Sucks Out Of This World!!!
I have in recent months started to ride the metro bus/rail and I have yet to run into service worth 100 thousand dollars. I will be more than fair and truthfully state that not every one of Metro's employees are worthless. But trust, there are very few who are doing what they are there getting paid to do.
I can recall each and every disgruntled bus driver that I have ever encountered on a metro bus. Either personally, or witnessing some other unfortunate passenger's untimely fate with them. They are absolutely the nastiest sector of service industry people I have ever had to deal with. If only I could express how I cringe at the thought of having to board a bus or wait in line to board a bus to have an impatient, grown man yell at grown people about stepping up or he was shutting the door. This is how an accident will start. And believe me, I have seen many caught in the doorway. And then the driver immediately has a dumb look on his face and starts throwing excuses as to why it was the passenger's fault.
I hate to hate people. I have so much disdain for the average metro worker. Any of them. They just stand around pretending to work. And there are so many of them. For what? To give the travelling public that much more in rude attitudes? They hole-up in the station booths, sometimes as many as four at a time. And please, please, please don't disturb them with foolishness of asking them a question as it relates to your trip while they're on the phone-you will reret it!
These do-nothing employees...they love the look the uniform gives them, but they absolutely deplore the duties and responsibilities that come with it. And why should we, the paying-out-our-ass public disrupt their non-productive groove? Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars to be made by these pretenders...pretending to serve the public, pretending to like their jobs, pretending they are there for the public...oh, that's only when the right, higher-ups are on the prowl for whatever reason.
Metro and it's roster of shiftless, pass-the-buck employees are one big joke making one big mockery out of the overtime pay at the expense of the stepped-upon paying rider. It would be different if they were actually doing the work. Perhaps they need to take some of that excess overtime payroll and invest in on-going classes of Customer Service 101 along with mandatory employee criminal background checks every three months. I wouldn't be surprised at the number of felons, past and current, they have behind the wheel.
I have in recent months started to ride the metro bus/rail and I have yet to run into service worth 100 thousand dollars. I will be more than fair and truthfully state that not every one of Metro's employees are worthless. But trust, there are very few who are doing what they are there getting paid to do.
I can recall each and every disgruntled bus driver that I have ever encountered on a metro bus. Either personally, or witnessing some other unfortunate passenger's untimely fate with them. They are absolutely the nastiest sector of service industry people I have ever had to deal with. If only I could express how I cringe at the thought of having to board a bus or wait in line to board a bus to have an impatient, grown man yell at grown people about stepping up or he was shutting the door. This is how an accident will start. And believe me, I have seen many caught in the doorway. And then the driver immediately has a dumb look on his face and starts throwing excuses as to why it was the passenger's fault.
I hate to hate people. I have so much disdain for the average metro worker. Any of them. They just stand around pretending to work. And there are so many of them. For what? To give the travelling public that much more in rude attitudes? They hole-up in the station booths, sometimes as many as four at a time. And please, please, please don't disturb them with foolishness of asking them a question as it relates to your trip while they're on the phone-you will reret it!
These do-nothing employees...they love the look the uniform gives them, but they absolutely deplore the duties and responsibilities that come with it. And why should we, the paying-out-our-ass public disrupt their non-productive groove? Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars to be made by these pretenders...pretending to serve the public, pretending to like their jobs, pretending they are there for the public...oh, that's only when the right, higher-ups are on the prowl for whatever reason.
Metro and it's roster of shiftless, pass-the-buck employees are one big joke making one big mockery out of the overtime pay at the expense of the stepped-upon paying rider. It would be different if they were actually doing the work. Perhaps they need to take some of that excess overtime payroll and invest in on-going classes of Customer Service 101 along with mandatory employee criminal background checks every three months. I wouldn't be surprised at the number of felons, past and current, they have behind the wheel.
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