A management without ethics breeds a staff without ethics

While the press is busily looking at our rogue operators they should be looking at our unethical management.

This is a management that "imposes" it's will without regard to law. 

A management that perverts the ADA regulations so it can spy on its employees without cause.

A management that allows anonymous complaints used against its employees as valid.

A management that perverts the grievance process in order implement it's will knowing full well that it will cause problems for the union members.

Basically we have a company that acts very much like the accused in the latest news about a Trimet operator. 
So is it any wonder that it has produced a number of operators who also have questionable ethics?

Time for the press to start looking at the management with the same microscope it looks at the drivers.

It also needs to be said in defense of Claudine that the MASTER himself, Mr McFarlane, had very publicly announced the ZERO TOLERANCE policy of fare evaders on the system and I can tell you that many operators took his statement literally, and from that point on they started cracking down hard on fare evaders.

I believe Claudine strictly enforced the fares and many of her problems stemmed from that.

Being a bus driver is hard work, you work around all sorts of people not all of them are particularly nice. In order to survive at this profession, especially as a woman, you need to be tough.
Claudine is tough as nails, obviously a little too tough, but that is how she adapted to surviving the wild world of being a bus operator out here.


I suggest the public might want to observe the police sometime, you will see the exact same type of behavior in many officers, but it seems its acceptable for police officers to act rudely and disrespectfully, but bus operators are held to higher standards than even the police.


As is always the case, double standards everywhere we look.