I work for one of the most well known Newcastle based busineses, privately owned by a Newcastle family for over a hundred years, working at the very lowest possible pay scale they have.
Everyone in this building, from the gaffer to myself, for very different reasons, all tied to our desire to remain and be a useful part of this region's economy, knows the cost of living here. There is but one mackem working here rather than his own area, and he is decidedly not an economic migrant marvelling at our gold pavements.
That is why we can say with some certainty, that these striking bus drivers, many of whom gladly sold their shares in a local employee owned business to tie their fortunes to what became the Amazon of bus services, are lying greedy parasites. It's our work that keeps them in work to begin with.
It is precisely our local roots, our wages, barely above minimum, that makes their cravenly opportunistic attempt to turn our lost wages and pensions into their gain, taking directly from us to feather their nests, that makes us want to poke their scabby little eyes out with our locally sourced wares.
We'll support them alright. We can certainly stretch to a one way ticket to somewhere else for every last one of them. Scotland is my vote.
I wish we had their details, so we could blacklist them, and see their reaction to losing one of the few benefits of being born up here. A truly local way to deal with an imported problem if ever there was one.
(16 Oct 2022, 12:02 am)Driver9*** wrote The lass in that post wont last a year. Learning to drive a bus is fairly easy, putting up with all the crap you get after that is far harder.Check her CV. She likely already knows what putting up with crap looks like, and she was recruited precisely because she wants to do it behind a wheel.