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Originally Posted by rrskylar
I'm sure it's a thankless job, when your driving a semi you don't have people screaming in your face or trying to assault you!
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It's not thankless. Many passengers appreciate a good bus operator. But take your two points along with city traffic and ignorant drivers (cyclists to semis), inadequate schedule time, inadequate washroom facilities and so on and so on. Throw in to that mix a workday that could take 13 or more hours to complete for 7.5 hours pay. Add buses with poor suspensions and cheap seats pounding over Winnipeg roads leading to workplace injuries for back problems and an employer that only cares about the bottom line rather than long term costs.
You may think "why do they get paid that much?" There's a good reason. It takes a special kind of person to do the job and there aren't a lot of those around. If there were WT wouldn't be short 70+ bus operators. And pay needs to be commensurate with the challenges of the job. Even at the current rate of pay which posters here say is too high, it isn't enough to attract the right people to the job.