Is it Just Me or Do Bus Drivers Just Drive Any Way They Want?
I can take a free shuttle but to my workplace even on weekends which is great. There are only a few bus drivers. On weekends just one of them drives one bus all day, weekdays all of them work. It's great to consider how much I saved on taxis or regular buses, though I do take taxis at times and so do other people due to not wanting to wait for the bus, being rushed or in some cases the bus not showing up.
Two of the bus drivers don't drive very well. As I recall of those two one of them also doesn't always show up on time. Between periods driving the bus he has break times. Once I observed that he was always coming late when going in one direction, and then when arriving at the last point just turning and going the other way, then arriving at those stops on time. Basically there aren't many stops and each stop has a stop on both sides of the street for going either way. It takes him just ten minutes to go from one end to the other, and about twenty to from the beginning to the end and back. We had a weekend and holiday schedule whereby the bus would leave from the beginning point one time each hour at the same time, go to the final point, wait there about ten minutes and then leave and go back to the start. Total time 30 mins. Time to sit and take a break until going again the next hour - about 30 mins. Well the bus driver seems to figure out if he left the first point ten minutes late he would reach the end point at the time it was to leave that point and then just go back. Total work time - 20 mins. Sit and take a break time - 40 mins. Now the schedule is different but just today I saw the bus pull into the final point about ten minutes after it should, not long before time to leave. And when I took the bus myself it was around 5 mins. late.
People complain to each other when this bus driver or another is late or doesn't show, but no one ever complains directly to the man. I wonder if this is normal in Korean culture.
Regarding the drivers' driving ability, I wouldn't care normally but now and then the driver jerks the bus one way or another. I think once he passed a car which wasn't going slow. Sometimes it's so sudden that it really scares me making me feel I'm going to have a heart attack.
I used to take regular public buses a lot and had a lot of bad experiences with bad bus drivers. I think that both the regular bus drivers and the free shuttle bus drivers know that no matter how they drive, it won't make any difference. People won't complain probably, and even if they do nothing will happen to them. They likely won't get a ticket or get in trouble with their company. So they know they'll get paid no matter what they do. In the public buses one can see a number to call and complain, but one friend told me people don't do it, while another told me even though she did nothing happened. She said one bus driver's bad driving caused her to fall over in the aisle.
Something I'm trying to say, and I'm sorry to say it, is that a number of working people in Korea are in positions where they can do whatever they want and still keep their job and they know it. Some examples....let's see...bus drivers, probably taxi drivers too, government workers, people who have friends or family in the right places...school teachers or professors.
I can't say that no other countries have this problem of course. Anyway, there's a lot that is unfair in the world. A lot unfair in Korea.
Two of the bus drivers don't drive very well. As I recall of those two one of them also doesn't always show up on time. Between periods driving the bus he has break times. Once I observed that he was always coming late when going in one direction, and then when arriving at the last point just turning and going the other way, then arriving at those stops on time. Basically there aren't many stops and each stop has a stop on both sides of the street for going either way. It takes him just ten minutes to go from one end to the other, and about twenty to from the beginning to the end and back. We had a weekend and holiday schedule whereby the bus would leave from the beginning point one time each hour at the same time, go to the final point, wait there about ten minutes and then leave and go back to the start. Total time 30 mins. Time to sit and take a break until going again the next hour - about 30 mins. Well the bus driver seems to figure out if he left the first point ten minutes late he would reach the end point at the time it was to leave that point and then just go back. Total work time - 20 mins. Sit and take a break time - 40 mins. Now the schedule is different but just today I saw the bus pull into the final point about ten minutes after it should, not long before time to leave. And when I took the bus myself it was around 5 mins. late.
People complain to each other when this bus driver or another is late or doesn't show, but no one ever complains directly to the man. I wonder if this is normal in Korean culture.
Regarding the drivers' driving ability, I wouldn't care normally but now and then the driver jerks the bus one way or another. I think once he passed a car which wasn't going slow. Sometimes it's so sudden that it really scares me making me feel I'm going to have a heart attack.
I used to take regular public buses a lot and had a lot of bad experiences with bad bus drivers. I think that both the regular bus drivers and the free shuttle bus drivers know that no matter how they drive, it won't make any difference. People won't complain probably, and even if they do nothing will happen to them. They likely won't get a ticket or get in trouble with their company. So they know they'll get paid no matter what they do. In the public buses one can see a number to call and complain, but one friend told me people don't do it, while another told me even though she did nothing happened. She said one bus driver's bad driving caused her to fall over in the aisle.
Something I'm trying to say, and I'm sorry to say it, is that a number of working people in Korea are in positions where they can do whatever they want and still keep their job and they know it. Some examples....let's see...bus drivers, probably taxi drivers too, government workers, people who have friends or family in the right places...school teachers or professors.
I can't say that no other countries have this problem of course. Anyway, there's a lot that is unfair in the world. A lot unfair in Korea.
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