(16 Sep 2023, 7:34 pm)Fleetmaster wrote I can't imagine a single scenario where this driver would pass a proper psych evaluation at the time he was hired, and at no point in the interveing time between then and now have any clue he was having issues. I takes no special reading of the relevant laws and company policies to know that a driver who is aware they have problems is expected to inform their employer. This is what it means to be a professional, to accept your share of responsibility for your personal duty of care to your passengers and your employer.

If the employer has in their eyes failed to meet their needs, they should not have reported for work and instead taken advantage of the fact GNE clearly has an active and indeed militant union representing its workforce. And even if they didn't have that to support them, in this day and age it is just a tiny bit laughable to think the management are not aware of what could and would happen if it was ever determined that they asked, persuaded or indeed forced a worker who had duly reported their belief they were having issues that could affect passenger safety, to just man up and driver the effin bus or face the consequences.

Professionalism cuts both ways. Paying NHS doctors top dollar and giving them whatever perks they want, comes with it an expectation they at a very minimum monitor their patients condition and take the concerns of relatives seriously. And yet here we are, in 2023, facing the depressing reality of having to make that a specific law.