Who’s driving this bus?
This morning.
Double decker-loving tykes help unveil a recruitment drive launched by Dublin Bus to encourage prospective women bus drivers.
Of the 2,550 drivers working for Dublin Bus only 97 are women.
*swerve*
‘Give it a spin’ – Dublin Bus wants more women drivers (RTÉ)
Pics via Cathal O’Sullivan (Newstalk)
Meanwhile…
During an item on the recruitment drive on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland this morning, Vivienne Kavanagh, Dublin Bus Employee Development and Equality Executive, was asked about pay.
Ms Kavanagh said:
“It starts at about €630 a week. And that’s a four-day week, inclusive of shift and Sunday premium so they’re working late shifts on Thursdays, over weekends. And then you move up onto a five-day week which is about €860.”
Further to this…
Listen back to the Morning Ireland item in full here
Wasn’t Miriam O’Callaghan (€299,000 from RTE in 2016, excludes clothing and grooming allowances and the rake of fees for public speaking, MC-ing and appearances) personally complaining about rents today. Maybe RTE needs to give her Baby Blue Productions Limited a pay rise.
A nearly punched the radio yesterday, listening to her giggling about catalytic convertors being cut from peoples cars.
That’s because she a talent-less clown who is utterly out of touch with reality.
Anyway, anyone who signs up for his better have a back up plan for the next decade or two because driverless vehicles will be with us sooner rather than later.
Garry Egan got it in one
44,720 pa isn’t bad! More than most graduates will be getting in the first 5-10 years of work!
If I were 22, I’d give it a whirl for a couple of years.
I probably wouldn’t have the patience
But it’s definitely an equal opportunity job, and like apprenticeships, it’s a solid career option for anyone who isn’t academic
Dublin salaries need to be weighted, simple as that.
Dublin definitely need the pressure bands – like in London
Although I would look at investing 500m in a massive scale Cooperative Housing / long term tenancy Programme in Dublin
again like in London
The city is going to eat itself by Christmas
I have a clients now, Irish, in the 50 to 120K bracket living in Wales and in the Severn Estuary area, and in the Liverpool/ Whirral – deliberately
and commuting/ hot desking
You’ll not get bus drivers, bin collectors, teachers, payroll clerks, hospital porters, whatever-you’re-having-yourself labour needs that a Capital City needs to function doing that
yup I have mates commuting from Liverpool and a lovely gaff they have there too, plus affordable weekends
Is this one of the busses that gets the cocoa?
A mate in the late 60s used to do double shifts as bus conductor with old CIE, then sleep in bus and wash in the depot, he would rent a bedsit for the cold months and occasionally kip with friends. But he certainly avoided about 5 months rental.
I actually have a former client (Dublin Bus driver – gentleman actually) who does back to back shifts and lives with his mam three days a week, and then goes back to his own family home in Westmeath
You think that’s bad? Guess how many women collect our bins, sweeps our streets? We should stamp out this discrimination immediately. Women Binmen Now!
630 net?
Golly imagine not having a gender-balanced public transport fleet
We’ll be the laughing stock of all the up-and-coming metropoles
You know what else is diabolical? Look at those children
All white
I could spit
€650 a week is good money to the average person. Not everyone pays city centre rent.