(17 Sep 2023, 2:09 pm)Fleetmaster wrote People love free stuff. Maybe if they realized being driven about in a large heavy metal box does actually cost money, they might value/respect it a little more? The perception that buses are only for the elderly, kids and welfare cases is a big reason why it has the least amount of policy attention despite being the most widely used form of "public" (as in available to anyone) transport.
More broadly, the Day Rider and similar tickets have to be the biggest insult to potential occasional bus users ever invented. Where else other than Beamish are you effectively given a whole day's service for only slightly (as in literal pennies) more than it costs to perform what most people define as a single useful return trip. It's a total con.
What a load of nonsense. I'm confident that the perception of buses only being for the groups you describe, only exists in the minds of the small-minded.
Everyone else can see they perform a vital role and have real socio-economic benefits.
(17 Sep 2023, 8:51 pm)Fleetmaster wrote I have both managed and been a manager. I have been unionised and non-unionised, unskilled, skilled and professional. I have been one of 5, 50 and 5,000 at one time or another. I know what works and what doesn't.
Tolerating an underperforming hostile workforce while you valianty try to make the necessary changes to save a failing business, never works. It is certainly why Wilko failed. Nobody seriously believes that the pay, conditions or management is any different at Poundland, Home Bargains or B&Ms, the more successful business that apparently had a big role in fatally wounding Wilko.
One suspects the difference is workplace culture. Employee culture. Union culture. Wilko is GMB, the other three are USDAW. I certainly wasn't impressed by the standards displayed by Wilko employees months ago, when there was still a chance the business could be turned around and management had already made very bold changes in an effort to turn things around, if only the workers showed the slightest interest in treating people like me as valued customers, not inconveniences. A visit to Home Bargains today saw me marvel at how dedicated the staff are.
Like Unite, GMB make a lot of noise and say a lot of things, such as this claim the management of Wilko, a business that existed for generations, are incompetent. Doesn't add up. Never does. USDAW are far quieter, known for negotiating in good faith and preferring ot to grandstand for political point scoring. A union that recognizes that a workforce without work is a pretty pointless thing indeed.
It's abundantly clear from your posts, that you have little to no experience in managing people, let alone dealing with trade unions. Dictation, maybe, but not managing.
To blame Wilkos collapse on an underperforming workforce is absurd. Not one leading economist or business commentator shares your view.
It's quite clear that you're only posting here, anonymously, to try and get a rise out of people.
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