Tonight I paid my vehicle registration bill. Yes, I own a car; I can't drive it safely, but I own it. My youngest son is about to acquire his driving permit. And, as I paid that registration bill, I realized that I would rather traverse the county with a fifteen year old novice than take a Broward County Transit bus.
This morning on the bus, I had an interesting conversation with a gentleman who sat down next to me. He's not Broward County Transit's biggest fan either. He feels that, in general, the drivers are rude and self-serving; he then brought up the point that they are in a service industry and should be respectful to riders. What?!?!? A service industry...respect...?!?!?! I wonder how Broward County Transit views itself. Somehow, I don't think they see themselves in the service industry. He seemed disgusted by the filth, debris, and general smell of the buses.
He liked my idea requiring every Broward County Transit employee to take the buses exclusively for an entire month...once each year. They should pretend they live in the real world where they can actually get fired for not showing up to work on time. Put them in the exact same stressful situations that most riders find themselves in daily.
(As a mother would explain to a small child) You see, Broward County Transit, real world employers don't promote people who routinely show up late for work. Sometimes, they cut hours of late employees and give the forfeited hours to someone else, and sometimes...yes...they fire people who show up late too often even when they've taken the bus that is supposed to get to the destinations way, way in advance of a job's start time. You see, service industry bus drivers and schedulers, there's a world you don't seem to know anything about. It's not a game.
Let me just end with this; how can the first two buses out of the central terminal be late? There aren't that many people out on the road at 6am.
Plenty more to come, unfortunately,
Still,
Condemned to Broward County Transit
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