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Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 51 points 2 months ago* (14 children)

I don’t doubt it. I drove a school bus for three years. The companies don’t give a fuck about anything but money.

Your route is literally impossible to do because of the laws of physics? Tough shit. Routes go over an hour and a kid has to pee? Let them pee their pants. Also, we’re going to pay you minimum wage while being responsible for a heavy vehicle carrying 30+ children in rush hour traffic. These are the problems drivers face. Its why they have like 300% turnover.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I work in the technology department at a school district. Last year, they were so desperate for drivers, they actually offered staff to drive busses. I would get paid to drive a bus while still getting paid for my full time job. But fuck that. Not enough money in the world to get me to do that.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    I’m a former truck driver. I went back to school and graduated during the pandemic to an industry that required people to be around eachother. I took the job to tide me over until things opened up again.

    Knowing they were short qualified drivers, I was very loud about these issues. I did eventually get my route fixed, but it took 3 months! I quit when I was reprimanded and told to let kids pee their pants after stopping at a gas station to let a little girl pee.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    You had a healthy immigrant population that didn’t mind taking up the jobs everyone else didn’t want. They did it, they worked hard, and they had a beer at the end of the day. Too bad they were chased out of town, slandered, kidnapped, tortured, deported to foreign states, …

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Historically its been retired people.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Oh, and we hope you like getting sick all the time because kids are disgusting and the bus is a giant petri dish on wheels!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Actually I found that I stopped getting sick. I guess being exposed to everything in small doses every day strengthened my immune system. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My dad wasn't so lucky when he drove a school bus. He was always sick with whatever the kids brought in and said it was the worst, most boring, most miserable job he's ever done. Worse than driving a taxi for an extremely sleazy guy who later went to prison.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I actually didn’t mind the job part of the job. I thought I would hate having my cargo talk to me, but the kids were alright. It was the low pay and management’s bullshit that made it awful.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    You just described the concept of vaccines.

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