Or you know... "Dying breed" may be a term as old as the English language itself...
Are you one of those people that write to complain about inain things on the TV?
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Or you know... "Dying breed" may be a term as old as the English language itself...
Are you one of those people that write to complain about inain things on the TV?
Fortunately the die hard lefties who love unions are a dying breed
Fortunately? Unions do a lot of good work that doesn't make the headlines. They regularly get involved with people who have been treated unfairly by their employer. Not everyone knows the ins and outs of employment law and they need union help.
they do already.
There is, of course, an easy way to avoid this; carry some bloody change, the bus driver doesn't have the Royal Mint in the cab with him.
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Stagecoach doesn't, unless you have an over 60s bus pass.
I have a opinion and I said what I meant no trolling at all.. But what worries me is that you a mod is using bulling tactics
and threats to make a member do what you want.
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Eh? Isn't it the business' responsibility to ensure they have the right equipment to carry out transactions? It is for every other business so why not buses?
So what you're saying is if I need to get bus but don't have any change, I have to walk to the nearest cash point before finding a shop and buying something I probably don't need just to get some change so I can get on a bus?
Buses should carry change like every shop or market trader does in the country, if there's a security issue then they should improve security not just get rid of carry a bit of change.
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If you're going to catch a bus, carry some change. Unfortunately if every pleb travelling slaps down a £5, £10 or £20 note the driver will run out of change rapidly, obviously.
Most drivers won't possess the powers required to conjure change from thin air once their float is diminished, so I think it is a much simpler proposition that the passengers use the brains they were born with and carry a little bit of change with them.
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I see many dissing the unions on here, have you ever used them before fighting a case for you against a employer, i thought not, so many heads in the sand
Only 40% of RMT members voted on the strike action, and of them only 76% voted yes to it.
So 30% of RMT vote yes and it happens. What ever happened to majority voting?
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I see many dissing the unions on here, have you ever used them before fighting a case for you against a employer, i thought not, so many heads in the sand
Most unions are great when dealing with an individual's problems, but when it comes to larger change they lose their relevance. It's the same with the Police Federation, great when you have a malicious complaint, crap when they start playing politics.
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Right so buses now can only be used by people who know well in advance they need to? Fine for commuters who know they'll use it everyday (but these people will just buy bus passes anyway) but what about people who need to get to the hospital after just hearing the news a loved one has fallen ill? What about the guy whose car won't start so has to get a bus to work in the morning?
I rarely have cash on me these days now everything from my local pub to corner shop all take cards now, so if I ever needed a bus in an emergency I'd have to walk around a mile to the nearest cash point where the lowest you can take out is a tenner, I'd then have to go to the overpriced petrol station attached to buy some chewing gum or something just to get some pound coins.
Drivers can only drive for 4 hours under European rules, at which point they switch so a perfect time to top up on change. They seemed to manage handling cash 15 years ago (when virtually no one had contactless bus passes or the ability to pay online) so why is it suddenly an issue now where the need for it is even less?
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Last time I checked atm's don't dispense change. The even easier thing to do is just not to use the buses, which saves me money and it's their loss of revenue at the end of the day. Sometimes people just decide to get the bus because it starts raining etc, they don't know what the fare is and they don't carry change for these infrequent occasions. Having to have the exact change in the day of credit cards and contactless payments is just stupid.
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I see many dissing the unions on here, have you ever used them before fighting a case for you against a employer, i thought not, so many heads in the sand
I work in a heavily Unionised industry, the only time I see them come in to give someone advice is when that person has done something seriously wrong (and I mean they actually did, not just accused of) and I have little sympathy for people who knowingly and seriously break the rules.
When it comes to general discussions their approach seems to be 'you can screw over future employees as much as you like but you can't touch the old guard'. For example if I do overtime I get paid at time, where everyone else gets paid at 1.333. Why? Because this is what the Unions 'agreed' to keep a few shouty troublemakers in their jobs (most of whom have all left or been dismissed since).
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Stagecoach do down here in devon.