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Friday, May 30, 2014

Torture of Trimet bus drivers by Trimet management

It's bad enough that Trimet bus drivers are constantly under stress from the public but they have to survive the hostile work place that Trimet management creates for them.

These 'talking buses' are yet another example of this sort of brutality that Trimet operators are subjected to. One of the more idiotic ideas, these buses disrupt neighborhoods and are a form of torture against operators who are forced to listen to this over and over.
And operators have no choice but to accept this psychological torture

8 comments:

Al M said...

And the 'company man' dispatcher tries to tell this operator to not talk about this publicly.
Without publicity this problem would never be dealt with.

Anonymous said...

"And the 'company man' dispatcher tries to tell this operator to not talk about this publicly."

Missed this part. Listened a few times for it. Where is it?

Al M said...

It's in the first part of the conversation where the dispatcher says "the worst place to talk about this is on the radio"

Al M said...

His remark is at 2:29 and his boss is Jay Jackson

Anonymous said...

Got it. That's insane. She's notifying them of safety and distraction. Wtf's wrong with Jackson? Trimess

Al M said...

The only reason things like that Actually happens is due to Trimet management complete disregard for operators safety and working conditions

Jason McHuff said...

I interpreted the "radio isn't a good way to communicate" as meaning that the radio system isn't designed for conversations like that (because calls are half duplex and time out), and maybe that dispatch isn't who to talk to, not that it's horrible because it may get publicly recorded and blogged about.

Max said...

I disagree - I think the dispatcher didn't want to say something "on the record", and then get skewered for it later on.