Rock Bottom Podcast : "Suburbs, Sarcasm & Shenanigans" - If You Can't Take The Heat, Go Back And Get Another "Pumpkin Spice Latte"
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Rock Bottom Podcast : "Suburbs, Sarcasm & Shenanigans" - If You Can't Take The Heat, Go Back And Get Another "Pumpkin Spice Latte"
Bus Company Chaos: My Three Months in Hell
What happens when you peek behind the curtain of your local school bus system? I spent three months infiltrating one of the wealthiest school district's transportation providers, and what I discovered left me speechless.
The Rock Bottom Podcast ventures into territory no parent wants to think about - the shocking reality of who's driving our children and what they're driving. From a chaotic hiring process with recruiters who don't communicate with each other to medical "examinations" that barely qualify as health checks, the system fails before the first bus ever leaves the lot.
Inside the depot, conditions resemble something from another era. Filthy facilities, piles of disorganized paperwork, and a workforce pushed to their limits. Drivers sleeping in cars between shifts because they need second jobs to survive. Training conducted with videos openly acknowledged as outdated. Buses operating with broken mirrors, malfunctioning safety systems, and damage that should disqualify them from service.
Most disturbing of all? The school district superintendent knows exactly what's happening and looks the other way. While millions are invested in shiny new administrative buildings, the transportation system crumbles. "Students first always" becomes an empty slogan when basic safety is compromised daily.
This isn't about attacking hardworking drivers caught in a broken system - it's about exposing the administrative failures putting our children at risk. Other districts have proven better models exist. The question is: what will it take for things to change? Will we wait for tragedy, or demand accountability now?
Listen to this episode, then ask yourself: do you really know who's behind the wheel of your child's school bus? And more importantly - are you comfortable with what you've learned?
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All right, what's up guys? This is DJ ESG and welcome to the Rock Bottom Podcast, and I was trying to do this one really seriously because I know how important it is for the kids. But oh man, this is like six months in the making putting this all together and I am just overwhelmed with many different emotions and many different feelings right now about this entire situation. So I was in there for three months. Our local bus company I don't need to say the name, you know where I live, so use some common sense. But two and two together, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. And I'm going to give you the entire soup to nuts breakdown on what happened to me why I was there, what happened when I was there, what I saw when I was there, what I heard when I was there At the end of it, why I didn't get hired, which was okay, but, oh my lord.
Speaker 1:So when you first start out, you get these text messages from these people somewhere in the Midwest asking you if you want to come in and have an interview. They don't tell you who to talk to, they don't tell you anything. They just say these are the times to come in and they're walk-in times and you get text messages from at least seven different people. Nobody was looking at the board or nobody was looking at other submissions. They were just throwing it out there to see who can get the commission first. So finally, I was like you know what, let me go in, let me try to see what this is about, because the headline said we need you bring a friend or four. Okay, so bring four friends. That's great. You know, let's just bring everybody we know and hope and pray that somebody makes it. So you get in there. And the first thing I did was I met this nice little older woman and she said hello, we need more help. There's stuff everywhere. Just go sit over there and somebody be with you shortly. I'm like do you need some help? I'm here, I'll help you clean up whatever you need. And there's just shit everywhere. I mean, it was just stuff all over the place. And we're talking about paper, like not even like digital. There's just paper everywhere. And I looked in these women's office. There was three different ladies over there and just piles and piles of paper just all over the place. Like nobody has come into the digital age over here at this bus depot. So I go in, I fill out all this paperwork. They hand us some old school you know computers with a little red button in the middle and some people have paper. Because there's not enough computers, we're trying to have a little makeshift desk. Next thing I know, I fill out all this paperwork and they send me over to this doctor's office in oxford valley.
Speaker 1:Now we're talking, I'm in the middle of where I live and they sent me to oxford valley that's some random doctor's office to get an eye exam, blood work, some kind of tb test and something else. And I said can I just go to my doctor and do this? I said no, we have a contract, these guys, you got to go over there. I walk over. There's like a hundred people there, one girl behind the desk. She's miserable. I'm like I'm not staying for this. It's ridiculous. All right.
Speaker 1:One month later I was like okay, let's try it again. It's the same ads out. Now I got more people texting me. Now they're begging me to come in offering me bonuses, offering me this bonus and that bonus and that bonus and this bonus. I said, okay, I'll go back in, go back in the same mess on the desk. Now we go from the two people that were behind the desk originally, to two new people. The same three women are in their offices. I'm sitting there, you could tell. The one goes this is ridiculous, we need more help. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm not even in there. Five seconds and I'm already hearing all this. This is great. So they're already freaking out. They don't even know I'm standing there. I'm like hi, I'm back, all right, great.
Speaker 1:So I took the test again, or I filled out the paperwork again, and they sent me back to the same spot. I was like, okay, I'll stay this time, try to get it done. They got me in quick. I told them last time like ever, go in the back room, do the tests. The eye test took three seconds. They barely even looked at my eyes. The blood test took two seconds. They gave me a blood pressure test and weighed me. That was it. That's all they did, and I was like my doctor could have done this in three seconds. Okay, gave me some paperwork and I was on my way.
Speaker 1:So now I start training, training at the bus company. So the first day they tell you what to bring. You're supposed to be there at a certain time. I walk in in these brand new yellow shoes. I thought that was cool. You know, let's match the bus.
Speaker 1:I walk through the back door and it is like you can smell the filth. It is just dirty. Um, I go into the bathroom. The bath, like it hasn't been renovated since the kennedy assassination. The kitchen area is just disgusting like it hasn't been cleaned in ages. I'm thinking to myself this nice town can't at least give these people some cool amenities, something or another, so that way, when they're here between run one and run two, they have somewhere nice to go to the bathroom or somewhere nice to hang out? I mean, this place is a fucking dump. So they bring me into the front.
Speaker 1:There's this little makeshift cubby room where you have your training at. There's one little air conditioner on the wall. It looks like a makeshift cubicle with ball sick wood uh around the edges and we're all stuck in there. It is so hot, everybody that I smell the people that are in there with me. So you have odav. I didn't shower meets odav. Oh god, it's disgusting. I mean it was really bad.
Speaker 1:And the trainers come in and we had one trainer a day and they put all these videos and you're supposed to watch these like webinar videos of some people talking about bus safety and how to drive a bus and all this stuff. As we're watching the video which I could have done from home, because that's how terrible these videos were the people are saying don't worry about that, that's no longer in place, don't worry about that, we don't do that anymore, that's not for here, that's somewhere. I'm like wait a second. With all the digital technology that we have today, why are we watching videos that you're telling us, as we're watching them, that stuff doesn't apply anymore? And then we're watching these videos. And then we have these books that go along with the videos. You're in the middle of richville. You can't get like a better spot to get these people excited to come in and and want to work here. I mean people complaining about being overworked and underpaid, shit everywhere, filth all over the place and these rooms are just disgusting. And now you're making us watch videos that you're telling us are outdated. We're starting off on the right foot here at this bus company Now, within a matter of a day, I met another trainer Great trainer, very nice woman In a matter of three seconds because none of us knew this telling us about a guy that worked here a year ago that got fired for driving drunk to the school, crashing his car into other cars and then pulling up to an elementary school drunk, leaving the elementary school, running back to the office, trying to get into his car after he dropped the bus off, never took the kids and they chased him out to the front to stop him, to arrest him because he was drunk behind the wheel of a school bus.
Speaker 1:Honest to God, I didn't know any of that. Nobody else knew any of that. And the first thing out of our mouths when this trainer walked out of the room they're like why did she tell us that? You know, isn't that something that you know out of sight, out of mind, like you try to keep that on the DL? But I mean, she was super cool, don't get me wrong. It was really super cool. So we're going through class. We're going through class, more videos, more talking, meeting other guys.
Speaker 1:Other trainers met this next guy. We thought he had only had one leg. He had a hip problem, back problem he was. You could tell he was in pain and I'm looking at him like this guy's driving a bus and he can barely walk. You know, it was just really weird the guys who were sitting next to me in the class. I had one little guy he must have been five foot tall, I don't even know how I was going to see her with a steering wheel. He was making jokes about sitting on books. There was another guy that was sitting behind me Really cool guy. He looked like your bus driver, you know, a little bit overweight, like me, and just looked like a bus driver, you know.
Speaker 1:There's another kid in the corner. He goes I don't my CDL and I'll go drive a truck or something, or I don't know. I'm like okay, so now you're wasting these people's time. You don't even wanna be here. So go to class, go to training. That lasted about two weeks.
Speaker 1:Now, as I'm in class, I'm listening to the people right in the hallways where people go to kind of congregate to get their schedules right. So they're doing is just complaining, complaining, complaining, complaining, complaining. Once complaining about k turns, once complaining about this, once complaining about that, once bitching about this, once bitching about that. I'm like okay, last day in class, or one of the days in class, they give us vests and these are like vests that you wear, so they're like the bright green ones. So like you don't get hit by a bus or a car or scare away the deer.
Speaker 1:We go outside and as we're walking out, they go put the vest on because you have to wear these vests in the parking lot. You have to wear them. Okay, it's the rule, it's the law. Get out the parking lot. And now we're at shift change. So we start looking around the four of us and the one trainer and I'm like why is nobody wearing these vests? No-transcript, but nobody wears the vest because there's different rules for each person. Okay, I got you. Okay, now we're on to something here. Now I'm like mental notes.
Speaker 1:I'm like so the woman inside is overworked and underpaid, the room inside is filthy, the bathrooms haven't been taken care of in years, the lunch area looks like a bomb hit it. There's tires all over the place. When you walk in it's completely filthy and the training area is hot, has bugs all over it and looks like something that you would see in north philly in some rundown training plant for people that may or may not have six criminal felonies. Okay, but the one thing that they did do good is they made sure that you weren't wanted by the fbi, that you weren't, um, a child molester that you didn't have TB like, so that they all took care of, which I thought was wonderful, okay, so then I go outside.
Speaker 1:There's a guy standing there and he's wearing what I like to call is a shmedium. A shmedium is a shirt that's a little bit bigger than too small but a little bit smaller than too big, and, uh, he probably needed a medium, but he was wearing a, a medium. And you know those six packs of Hanes white t-shirts that you get. They're like $16 for a pack of six. You're supposed to wear them underneath your shirt. Remember, like back in the day, the Outsiders, that movie I think that was maybe Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, probably a young who the hell played Daniel LaRusso, whatever the hell his name is. They all had their hair slicked back. It was called the Outsiders.
Speaker 1:Well, this is what that guy looks like. He looks like a cross between one of the outsiders, the missing outsider, and Matthew McConaughey from Days of Confused. You know where you take the cigarette pack and roll it up in your sleeve. So he's out there wearing jeans and a shmedium white shirt, and he's supposed to be the manager of this entire joint. Nobody's wearing a vest.
Speaker 1:Everybody's complaining. One woman's crying. There's another guy complaining about the fact that his car doesn't work right. There's one guy saying to me I'm meeting these guys as I'm walking outside that his wife has alimony or he has alimony and he's got to get a secondary job to pay for the first job because the first job doesn't pay enough. So he's got to get another job to pay for his kids or else he's going to be going to jail. And I'm like dude.
Speaker 1:Then I turn the. These are the people driving your kids to school. Then I turn the corner and there's a guy sleeping in the car. I wake him up. I thought he was dead. He's telling me about his full-time job that he has during the night because this job doesn't cover enough money. And then he sleeps in his car and I go wait, you're, you're driving. You haven't even had eight hours of sleep yet you're driving these kids to school. Oh, okay, you're not driving my kid to school, all right.
Speaker 1:So then we get through this whole course, finally, of videos that are outdated, room that is stuffed up, people that I swear to god. I wouldn't tell where I lived if I had no other choice and my mother was on the floor yelling I fall and I can't get up. I wouldn't tell these people where to go to even find me. It's ridiculous. Now, some people were really really sweet. There was a woman that came, brought her son with her I guess there's no babysitting, so bringing him with the ride in the car was even better. She was real nice, very sweet. Every time she'd walk by, like five or six guys would stare at her ass and I'm like what are you guys doing? Like her kid's here, like you All, right, whatever.
Speaker 1:So now we start bus training. Okay, so I walk outside with the first guy Now we're training for the bus and he can barely move. He's got one sock up to his knee. He's limping all over the place. His hip hurts, his knee hurts, his ankle hurts. He's bending over the back of his car, chunk wide open, like I thought this guy was going to teal over right into the car. I mean, like man, you don't need to drive a bus, man, you need a hip replacement. So and I met a couple other people, like elderly people, that literally looked like they needed surgery versus getting behind the wheel of a school bus.
Speaker 1:We go to the first training day and I'm on the bus with this guy and he goes yo sit in the seat. I go okay, now the seat's not working. I go dude, the seat's not going back and forth. Oh yeah, you got to do that and move that. The seat's all fucked up. Okay, now the window's not working. Oh yeah, the window's broke. Uh, we got to get that fixed. Uh, I, I told them about it and they're just, you know, they're too busy right now. It's it's not priority. So you can't move the window on the right side. You have to get out of the bus and manually move the window. Okay, so, I mean functional, that's good. Then you have, when you go to the back of the bus, there's a button you push when you make sure that all the kids are off the bus. It's like this button that you push and that tells the inside people that you're clear. I hit the button. No lights. Come on. He goes oh yeah, the lights aren't working either. I got to get that fixed too.
Speaker 1:I'm like, wait a second, you're driving the bus right now with a fucked up mirror, no heater, air. I forget what it was. It was no air because we were in early fall. The mechanism that tells people that kids are off the bus is not lighting up and this is okay and safe for you. Well, we need new buses and everything, and we're supposed to get these new buses and we're starting to get new ones, and, yada, yada. I'm like so, wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop. You're driving children, people's kids, around and you have non-functioning equipment and the only answer you have for me is you're supposed to get new stuff. Okay, but this was like the nicest guy of all of them, so like we had a really good time. This is like the guy that like, loves his job, doesn't care what it gets paid Blase, blase. It was just fantastic.
Speaker 1:Okay, I finally start bus training. I'm driving around, we're doing good, everything's good. I start to learn all the bus stuff and I said to the guy I go, listen, I go, I'm not good under the hood, you know what I mean. So let's figure out what to do under the hood, because I'm never going to remember this. I'm not a mechanic, I've never been a mechanic. So he says to me why don't we record it? And and, that way you can play it back. So I'm a video guy. I bring in all the necessary microphones and everything. I hook them up on my phone. I hook them up and I'm following him around the bus.
Speaker 1:Now he's recording everything. It's called a well, it's a checklist, but it was called something else. It was called, like, when you go in the morning time, you have to go through this 20 minute, all these checks to make sure everything's properly functioning. Clearly everything wasn't functioning and they knew about that, but it was what it was okay. So I'm in the bus looking at these things and I'm recording him and I'm standing there walking around with him recording this stuff. So he's recording everything, going through this entire checklist. It's the same checklist you go and use when you have to get your license at the actual bus company, so they go through all this and then you drive the bus and then, almost like when you're getting your car, except you don't go under the hood of the car.
Speaker 1:So we're going through this whole thing and I'm recording it, recording the front, the back, the inside, the outside. He's talking, I'm recording the whole thing. So when we're done, I got this whole thing on tape and I'm like talking to another guy and he's like my trainer told me to do the same thing and I'm like, okay, you know what, let's do this because I got this one trainer that you know great, and he recorded everything and I got it all on tape and let me put this here. I'll share this with you guys. We can all study the same thing. Okay, all right, that makes sense, right? You know, one guy gives you a cheat sheet and a learning tool, and for educational purposes only, and you know you share it with your friends. So next thing I know I'm getting. This is great.
Speaker 1:This is where it gets real funny. I'm getting called into the office. The office is like um, so me, shmedium, guy, his boss, who I don't know, he looked like a soccer player, and this other woman that you could tell was so overworked because the papers on her desk were piled up so high, she just looked like she needed a vacation. Um, and everybody told me this woman does everything, like this woman does everything. Without her, we have nothing. And I'm like, well, they should take care of her, they should give her two hundred thousand dollars, they should give her a mercedes, they should give her a spa day, they should give her a hair day, they should give her a nail day. If you guys can't function without this woman. I haven't offered to bring her Danish, but didn't go over real well with the general manager.
Speaker 1:So go in the room and he goes what the hell is this? We can't have this. Yada, yada, yada. How dare you go on YouTube and put this on YouTube? I go wait, excuse me what he goes. Why didn't you ask me if this was okay?
Speaker 1:I go well, I don't know your trainer. Do you understand what you're saying to me? You're the owner. You have a guy that you put in charge of me. Now he's telling me what to do. He's telling me I can record whatever I want. He's giving me all this information. He's training me to drive these children. He's the one that's going to be with me when I go downtown to take the test. I'm listening to him and now you're telling me that I should have gone over his head to ask you guys permission before I filmed the bus and filmed him talking to me for 30 minutes. Do you understand how fucking whack that is? Let's say I go over his head, all right, and ask you guys, and then he freaks the fuck out and goes like you went over my head to the owners and asked them. Questions like that's why I'm here, for I'm like you guys don't make any sense whatsoever. He goes what if it wasn't accurate? What if it wasn't right? I'm like you guys don't make any sense whatsoever. He goes what if it wasn't accurate? What if it wasn't right? I'm like wait, wait, stop. So the guy who you have training me and training all these people to drive the buses, you're second guessing the validity of his training by saying that you have to now verify what he's doing to make sure that it's right or not. Wouldn't you do that before you hired him to train people? Like so you're telling me that every time these people get trained by your staff of trainers, that we have to again go over their head to do anything or ask questions because what they're training us might not be accurate. Do you understand what you're saying right now? You're basically saying you don't trust any of your trainers and the stuff that they're training us could be wrong. So we could be learning wrong shit right now, but we're the ones driving these kids to school.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile I'm in the meeting. I get another text message from some robbing in the Midwest. What a bus job. So like that was the last day I was there. So as I'm walking outside, you know I wanted to say bye to people. I'm walking out to leave, all right. So I'm saying goodbye to people. I already made some friends. I was like whatever One. I was like whatever One kid goes to me. He goes yo, yo, yo, do you have anything else I can? If you know, anything like cause I'm a DJ too. He goes um, you know I, I got a side hustle. I'm like great. Um, yeah, I gotta go. You know I'm, I'm, I'm leaving. This is you guys have fun right Now in the parking lot.
Speaker 1:Nobody's wearing a vest. Everybody, everybody, everybody's still vestless in the parking lot. Um, the uh, the front desk looks like a bigger bomb hit it. There's papers everywhere. There's one guy behind the desk and like 40 people all yelling at this one guy at the same time. Uh, I don't want to make k turns. There's no kid at this. Stop, what do I do here? I don't want to do this. Run, this, run, stupid. She yelled at me. Uh, I don't know where this guy went. And I'm sitting there listening to these people and you can tell the guy at the front desk. His head's ready to explode. He's like oh my God.
Speaker 1:And then, as I'm leaving outside, I see this one kid and he's telling me that his trainer yelled at him and now he needs a new trainer. And there's another girl outside and she's telling me that she doesn't know if this job is for her or not. And there's an older lady out there. She's just crying. I don't know why she was crying, for no reason whatsoever. And then, as I'm walking to say goodbye to my trainer this is where it gets the best I walked to go say goodbye to him because I didn't want to throw him under the bus, so I sort of just took the hit.
Speaker 1:I'm walking and there's a big dent in the side of the bus, or a bus, and I look at this pole and I go. Why is there a pole sideways and a dent in the side of this bus? And then he tells me that this guy, one of the drivers, didn't see it and ran into a pole, so he parked his bus. The pole was right next to him. Brand new pole, brand new bus paint. And he runs into the pole and smashes the bus. I go, go, okay. So why is the bus now fully smashed, from the well to the to the battery, which is sitting right next to the tire. This pole is smashed at like a 45 degree angle and this bus is still in service.
Speaker 1:I go what's going on here? And he goes I don't know. But you know, when I see him later I'm gonna ask him because I'm gonna make fun of them, because this is ridiculous. What I was like why? Oh, my god, like I'm trying to be serious here in this podcast I don't know how to be serious because I go home and like two weeks later I get another text you want to work for the bus company? Bring a friend, bring four.
Speaker 1:So I'm telling you like this place, like, looks like it hasn't been renovated since the 70s. You have people in there that you can tell want to help, but there's not enough help. You can tell that nobody is giving these people anything when it comes to renovations of the bathroom, renovations of the kitchen. I mean, if you're going to be a bus driver and take care of kids, you know the least you can do is to have a spot when they're off duty that they enjoy. You know, give them some big television. You know some really good internet. Give them some computers to work on. You know, give them something to make it worthwhile. Give them some amenities. You know these are people coming to work every day that are trying to take care of your kids and your school district.
Speaker 1:And when I say dirty little secret, I mean like there is nothing there for these people. This building looks like it's 100 years old. Everything's paper, this and paper that Nothing has a base for anything except for the offices, for the three women that work on the front and the general manager. Nobody's uniform. The buses all have problems. They need all new buses, which I was told they were supposed to be getting eventually. All my neighbors tell me how there's lack of drivers everywhere, and then old bus drivers who used to work there, who I found, who I've spoke with, told me that the only way you can get help from anybody is talking to the GM. So the GM, who's sort of a stickler, uh, sort of a little bit of a hard head, but I mean I can understand in that job where you sort of have to be. The whole world comes to him crying and complaining and 95% of his job is dealing with people that are whining, bitching and moaning. And how do you get stuff done when everybody's miserable? Now you have some people that enjoy it because they enjoy the kids, but for the most part I mean that place is filthy. You need new buses.
Speaker 1:I saw under the hood of a lot of buses. They all need help. We're talking air brakes, so anybody that doesn't have the power to push on them, you know, god forbid. If something goes wrong, they try to stop the bus. That's going to be a tough chore. You got people with bad hips, bad ankles, bad knees, bad back, people that need surgery, people that need rehab. You know, one guy was trying to sell me and buy drugs and he just took a drug test. I'm like, what are you doing? He just took a drug test. He goes I need it. I'm like, dude, no, you know, it's just. Oh man, I don't know. And these are the people driving your kids around.
Speaker 1:I talked to another school district. I'll say the name because it's great Neshamity and Neshamity. They own all their own stuff. I mean they're sort of all-2s. They all get benefits, they all get insurance, this, that and the other thing. I mean this company I'm talking about there's no benefits, there's no insurance, unless you're a full-time employee, and I don't even know how that works. It's unionized, so maybe I just didn't get that far.
Speaker 1:How they oversee all the buses, how no bus goes out unless it's 100 ready to go, there's no broken windows, there's no broken mirrors, there's no broken heaters, no broken air, that bus doesn't go anywhere. If that doesn't work, they'd rather have the parents drive the kids to school. But I mean, like, this is the bus company that your kids are dealing with every day and you guys wonder why there's no transportation. Sometimes people are late, they don't know where they're going. It's ridiculous. I even asked somebody. I said you know, how do you, how do you navigate? You get all this paper and then you gotta just figure it out as you go. You don't even have digital stuff now for these guys to pop up on the like. There's an iPad. I'm not sure how that works or anything, if you can use that for directions or if that's just for checking in, because there's a way to telling the mechanics that the bus is ready to go and in gear. But I'm sure some things aren't hooked up to the bus.
Speaker 1:Move my mirror. You got to stop the bus, get out and move it. Well, that's a pretty important mirror right there. What do I do? Um, yeah, it's 100 degrees in here. Oh, the air doesn't work, okay, so you turn the fan on. That's next to the mirror. That's supposed to be for the defogger and, uh, you use that as an air conditioner.
Speaker 1:It's like what, oh my god, like what's going on here, guys, oh my lord. And the only reason why it's funny to me is because this is supposed to be the nicest town in Bucks County and you have this curled away in a secret spot, away from everybody, in the nicest town of Bucks County and this is what's driving and picking your kids up from school every day. And you wonder why there's issues. And the superintendent, that douche nozzle, knows it's going on and looks the other way. Because if he really thought students first always was the answer and students first always was the motto to live by, well, you're not going with students first always right now, because if students were first always, then you wouldn't have half these buses and half these people driving these kids to school or using this as transportational methods. You would have bus first. Only you would have the buses fixed first and tell the parents listen, we need to get new drivers, we need to get new school buses, we need to get new this, we need to get new that. This is exactly what we need to do. It's safer at this time to drive your kids to school. It might not be the easiest thing to do, but it's safest and it's what we recommend right now until we can get this bus situation fixed. Couple of things they can do.
Speaker 1:I really can't blame the general manager too much because he's probably ready to blow his head off every day because of all the problems that he has. He's probably not getting a whole lot of help above his head and he has to work with what he has to work with because it's a job and he has to do the job and he does care. I mean, like you job and he has to do the job and he does care. I mean, like you know, he does care about the school and he does care about the kid. So I'll give him that I'm blown away that the superintendent knows about all this and he still allows it to happen. Like he looks the other way because his options are tell you guys to drive your kids to school or use what you have and pray that nothing happens.
Speaker 1:I was to god, that's some fucked up shit right there. I mean that's some really fucked up shit right there. I mean I said the other day I said somebody asked him if he's ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight, because that's what he's really doing. He's saying that to all you parents and all you kids because, technically, at any moment, just you know, boom, you know something's going to happen and then he's going to take cover for it. Like, oh, I didn't know that was gonna happen. Uh, I wasn't aware he knows. But, like most people do in that form of power, when you make 220 000 a year, you sweep it under the rug and you pray it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1:Let's take all that funding money that we're putting into that little building over there in newtown and making sure that everybody comes in and has their nice little cushy donut and coffee and all that jazz, and let's not fund any part of this bus depot and where these buses are coming and going. I went to the other bus depot which is around the corner and down the street. There wasn't even a person outside. You can just drive around in there and do donuts. There's nobody even watching you. I'm like you know what? Why do we even have this bus depot? Take all the money you're investing in this, go, take it to the other bus depot. Fix that bus depot up so that people actually want to be there, like you just did with firehouse 73, where it's gorgeous, because when people are there all the time and they're on call and they have to sit around, amenities are great. Give them some fucking amenities to have and maybe you'll get more people in there, more qualified people who want to be there.
Speaker 1:But right now, office morale is down and you have no incentives, you have no people, and I'm still getting text messages to this day from people in colorado asking me if I want to go work for the bus company. I'm like don't you guys have paperwork? Don't you guys look at anything? Or are you just firing away, hoping for a commission? You know one of the nicest places in Bucks County and nobody knows about it and you're all just looking the other way. But after today, I wouldn't look the other way anymore. I'd look straight that way Because I'll tell you this right now that's the problem.
Speaker 1:You want to spend all this money on these new schools. Well, spend some money on these bus drivers and these buses, because in order for your kids to get to school, in order for these people to be happy, you got to do something for them. And if you don't want to fund them and get on the fucking phone, call the upper branch, which is over there in the Midwest somewhere, and tell that upper branch listen, these people over here, they need help and they need a lot of help and they need a lot more help than you're thinking right now. Get them some money, fix them up, make all this better, fix my buses, fix my depot, and I'll tell you this. You'll thank me later. I'm DJ ESG. Peace, love and God above, and I'm out. Bye, bye.
