(20 Oct 2023, 12:32 pm)Coastliner700 wrote Yes couldn’t agree more, not only do you need experience you need personality he doesn’t have any of it at all. A degree doesn’t give him any of it. When I was a Stagecoach South the OMs there were ex graduates which much the same as Ben no personality, no personal skills and much less respect than the OMs who had came through the ranks.
Yeah totally, doesn't help they've never drove a bus so they don't understand the role at all. Very different job to retail or something like that and has unique problems, the problems which seem to be the stumbling blocks on this strike aswell.
I know people slag off the likes of Roger French but least he worked his way up. It's no wonder the industry is a mess when the current crap management train graduates in the same current crap practices, it's just a merry go roundabout of rubbish which currently over the generations is gradually getting worse. It's no wonder when something like COVID and the fuel price increases come around everything just goes tits up.
Gilbert and Hornby are two prime examples of it, who ran before getting the boot.