Gingerbus1991
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- 30 Jul 2018
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I for one walked out in February before they could even attempt to sack me, and yes it was a problem over social media use, there current social media policy more or less states that you shouldn't say anything bad about the company(which is understandable despite it perhaps being the truth) or even connecting yourself too the company through these outlets.
The odd thing is you don't need to go far into the land of twitter to understand that many of there drivers have blatant photos of themselves in uniform(thus connecting them to the company), those that work for ECB, LB, LMC, LCB and Tours ALL have these same policies in place. Most bus company's do of course have these, I do think this is a slightly outdated concept when social media is such a big part of many life's.
Its not Sunshine and Fresh daisies at LRT, its just the external and clever PR that makes the company look the way it does.
Indoors though there is a major clique amongst the drivers with DD drivers gaining a superiority over SD guys as there on different contract getting payed differently, it essentially means DD drivers do an 8hr shift and get payed through including payment for breaks, the SD guys have to do a 10hr shift for the same pay, as the SD's don't get payed for breaks, essentially coming away with less money for more hours being at work, there is also a heavy sense that this will never change as all union pay deals are collectively voted for but the DD driver outweigh the SD guys by a decent margin, not to mention that most of the union guy are voted for to there position by there DD clique friends.
On a personal note, I am soooo glad I've moved to HGVs, its like night and day, whilst I get more of my weekends off, starting at 6am and finished for 6pm, 4 days on, 4 days off, I highly recommend it.
The odd thing is you don't need to go far into the land of twitter to understand that many of there drivers have blatant photos of themselves in uniform(thus connecting them to the company), those that work for ECB, LB, LMC, LCB and Tours ALL have these same policies in place. Most bus company's do of course have these, I do think this is a slightly outdated concept when social media is such a big part of many life's.
Its not Sunshine and Fresh daisies at LRT, its just the external and clever PR that makes the company look the way it does.
Indoors though there is a major clique amongst the drivers with DD drivers gaining a superiority over SD guys as there on different contract getting payed differently, it essentially means DD drivers do an 8hr shift and get payed through including payment for breaks, the SD guys have to do a 10hr shift for the same pay, as the SD's don't get payed for breaks, essentially coming away with less money for more hours being at work, there is also a heavy sense that this will never change as all union pay deals are collectively voted for but the DD driver outweigh the SD guys by a decent margin, not to mention that most of the union guy are voted for to there position by there DD clique friends.
On a personal note, I am soooo glad I've moved to HGVs, its like night and day, whilst I get more of my weekends off, starting at 6am and finished for 6pm, 4 days on, 4 days off, I highly recommend it.
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