🚀 go-pugleaf

"demibee" <demibee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Was heading into the new job today...  Not surprisingly, the bus was
> running 10-15 minutes late due to the condition of the roads.  No
> biggie; such is winter.  But at Lacewood terminal, the driver decides
> to get out and spend yet another five minutes getting a coffee!
> Hellooo??  We're *late*!...  No one was impressed.
>
> Upon his rearrival, a young girl asked if he would please stop doing
> that when the bus is running late (not the first time, I guess).  He
> said, and I quote, "Call someone who cares!"  She pressed him, and he
> said, "Sit down and shut up!"
>
> Almost immediately, four of us picked up our cells and made the call.
> The operators were not impressed and asked each of us for our callback
> info.
>
> (It was bus #52 toward the BLIP at ~8:35 [scheduled time] from
> Mumford.)
>
> What a completely disrespectful driver!
>

3 bus drivers were fired for texting while driving in Toronto - I guess cell 
phone cameras played a part in that too:

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110201/ttc-drivers-reported-firings-110201/

It's a proper thing bus drivers get reported... they drive a vehicle for 
public transportation purposes, not their own pleasures.  It's time Metro 
Transit started doing something about these complaints.