Today started out pretty crappy, and put me in a really bad mood.
When I was doing the morning bus route, I had a parent come to the bus door and blast me about the bus being "sporadic" and never being there on time.
I appologized, telling him I was a substitute driver and that I was just learning the route.
He then goes on to say that the regular driver was "sporatic" also.
I appologized again, and told him to take it up with the School Board Office.
He then told me that "you'd have to be F@#&ing stupid, not to be there at the same time everyday"
and went on to say that his son had been at the bus stop at 7:30 and waited until 7:50 for the bus.
I told him that I am never there by 7:30, as I don't turn onto his road until 7:31 and it takes me 7 minutes to get to his son's stop. ( There are 6 or 7 stops on that road before I get to his) And, when I looked at the time after he said this to me, it was then only 7:42!!
I then told him that it was only 7:42, and asked him whether or not his son was getting on the bus, ( his son apparently went back up to his house at "7:50" after waiting for the bus) and he replies " yes, I just sent my other son up to get him" and then continues to say to me " this is F&$%ing ridiculous that you can't be here the same time everyday and I am F*&%ing tired of it"
He then turned back to his driveway to yell out to his son to hurry up, and I don't know what else he was saying, I couldnt hear.
His son ( who is in grade 10) got on the bus, with his head down, (I can only imagine how embarresed the poor kid was) and went all the way to the back of the bus and sat down.
I was so embarressed, angery, etc!
The whole thing put me behind 10 minutes picking up the rest of my kids!
Anyway,after the morning route, when I got to the bus room ( the bus driver's staff room) I told the other driver's what had happened, and they said that I didn't have to put up with parents like that, and to report it to the principal and School Board office,and that they would deal with it.
I gave the civic address and the name of the student, to my supervisor, and he said he would pass it on to the prinipal and School Board office.
I hate confrontation, I feel like a little kid when people say stuff like that to me....
Grrrrr.....lol
I felt like this....
and a little like this....
LOL, ok maybe not like this...lol
Like for 5 seconds after the "incident" I serioulsy wanted to quit my job.....lol
The other driver's re-assured me not to let it get to me, and that putting up with abuse from parents is not part of our job description!
Okay I feel better I got that off my chest.....lol
It's 11:12 am , I hope the rest of my day goes better than the start of it!
How's you day going?
You poor thing! You so don't have to put up with that! When I was working in Customer Service I would tell angry customers that if they continued to swear at me that I would hang up on them. I would have closed the door on the guy and drove on. If that guy had enough time to stand there and yell at you he had plenty of time to get in his car and drive his son to school. Hang in there pal! -Kelsee
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