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Typical missed my bus back by literally seconds , got to wait 25 minutes now. I've signed up with boots to get my scripts and deliver them.
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That's a shame @Sandy_123
We just walked Jenson for 3 miles
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Thats a good walk @66Mustang keeps you and Jenson fit. I'm home now resting with a coffee
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I hate it when that happens too Sandy! Worse when the bus is every hour like it can be in my area.
and then even worse when the bus an hour later doesn't turn up at all due to driver shortages.0 -
I have a lot of respect for bus drivers
They get just over minimum wage for driving round towns and dealing with traffic and handling the customers as well
Train drivers just go in a straight line and don't have any interaction with the passengers but they get £75,000+ a year
I might have ready misinformation here, but if it is true, I wonder how that's fair??
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Our bus drivers went on strike last year and got a very good pay rise. Of course the bus fair went up to support it. Getting 18.43 and hour.
It is annoying @Jimm_Scope
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I have a friend in the bus industry actually, the reason there is a constant shortage of bus drivers is that all the private bus companies don't bother training new drivers as much as poaching drivers from other companies. Because it's much cheaper to give a bus driver from another company a slightly better offer than it is to train a new driver just for them to be poached by another private bus company.
So they're all just taking drivers from each other and not training enough new drivers to keep up with demand and older drivers retiring.
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What is a job worth? Is that an easy question to answer?
What should they earn? Are they earning too much, or are other jobs earning too little?
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The thing is, why would someone train as a bus driver for £18 an hour when a train driver gets like 2-3 times that
I remember looking into being a pilot, this was over 10 years ago so prices will be different with inflation
It was £250,000 to train to be a pilot so over a 30 year career it costs you £11-12,000 a year with interest
A train driver earns about £10,000 less than a pilot a year so you're better off being a train driver
Obviously if you became a pilot for free via the RAF or just because it's something you love then that would sway it but the numbers were quite interesting to me
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It is crazy my daughter in law gets a stupid wage in police force putting herself in dangerous positions where my son earns more with less danger. Same as drs nurses etc. Retail workers get same as carers. It's all muddled up isn't it
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See, I look at that and question, not are train drivers being paid too much, but are bus drivers and pilots being paid too little?
As @Sandy_123 says, the police (the police cannot legally strike!), carers, nurses, doctors, they earn so much less, but is that the train drivers fault? I think we should be asking why these aren't earning as much, and why they are earning so much less, than asking why train drivers earn as much as they do, and suggest they earn less.
I'd rather make all the other jobs better off, than drag one job down.
edit: Might be a good topic for a separate discussion? 😋 don't want to take up too much space about a specific topic here!
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In fairness in the police if the danger gets the better of you you get your pension maxxed out to 35 years, even if you have only done like 2 years, and should be financially OK for the rest of your life
I do know what you mean about danger though!! My brother is a tree surgeon, he gets like £15 an hour for climbing up a tree with a chainsaw and stuff but if he gets injured he gets statutory sick pay which is like £17 a day
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Yes would be a good thread if anyone wants to start it lol
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If anyone else fancies adding I made a discussion here:
😊 I think it's an interesting discussion, because there are quite a few different ways you can approach it, and it touches on about what do we actually 'value'?
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Hi everyone I hope yous are all doing good. I’m not that long home I had a nice time down at the charity match met up with my sons future in laws and my grandkids were there to.It’s a small gym and they raised just under £1000 so did great.
@jean79
That’s really great you get on so well with your cleaner and lovely she made your lunch,@Sandy_123
That’s a shame you missed your bus glad you home now and resting. That’s great you’ve signed up to get your prescriptions delivered. I’ve been getting mine delivered from a quite small pharmacy and they’re really great.❤️
Tagging misbehaving 😂
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Yes it was a wee change Sandy I’m glad to be home now 😊
@66Mustang
That was another great walk yous had.❤️
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Did you get your face painted
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