Dublin Bus looking for part-time bus drivers @ €21.53/hr

[watty]

Might be of interest to some?  Though the €21/hr is not so good once you've paid tax etc on it...

Dublin Bus is hiring part-time bus drivers with wages from €21.53 per hour

Dublin Bus is recruiting part-time bus drivers and here is all you need to know.  The public transport provider is looking for people who will operate its buses safely and efficiently. Dublin Bus is offering wages starting at €21.53 an hour.  Part-time drivers will work a minimum of two days each week. They will be rostered to work every Sunday and one additional day during the week based on operational requirements.

Successful candidates will undergo a four-week full-time driver training programme. Initial training and mentoring are provided as well as ongoing training and development (including periodic CPC).

Minimum requirements include:
- Full category Irish D licence
- Up to date valid driver qualification card, category D (CPC card)
- An up- to- date copy from the online CPC Driver Portal as proof that your CPC is up to date, go to www.rsa.ie, click on Professional Drivers, click on Driver CPC then click on My CPC.
- All applicants should have excellent interpersonal skills and fluency in English, both written and spoken.

[Octavia1]

You would need at least 50 an hour ... incredibly stressful job ide imagine

[silverbullet]

Rest assured there will be someone who "CBA - Can't be arsed".

If you post the above @ €21.53 an hour gross, it's not enough.

If you post that a driver can do two hours a day and be paid €150 a day five days a week, they'll find a way not to do it.

The truth is there in the old joke:

What's the difference between a taxi driver and a newborn baby?

You can stop a newborn baby from crying!!

[Octavia1]

Rest assured there will be someone who "CBA - Can't be arsed".

If you post the above @ €21.53 an hour gross, it's not enough.

If you post that a driver can do two hours a day and be paid €150 a day five days a week, they'll find a way not to do it.

The truth is there in the old joke:

What's the difference between a taxi driver and a newborn baby?

You can stop a newborn baby from crying!!

Havnt a clue wat yur on bout sb ..but I've driven double deckers buses .... an I was earnin more than €21 an hour nearly 2 decades ago .... wen yu join up to watever " dublin bus , formally CIE " Is now ..... you are given the absolute shite that others who started before ya  gav to do anymore cause the shit is passed onto the" newbies" ...ther a scale of seniority that existed then ..... an I'm positive exists now ... € 21 an hour is absolute slavery ..... after tax an stoppages you'd be very lucky to receive a tenner an hour .. fir that yu will be put on a roster that will require yu to get out of bed minimally at 5.00 am an then work tru the rushour avoidin rogue cyclists an uppity taxi drivers ... luas drivers are paid double ...maybe even triple wot overtime... an they are on rails ... no split decisions... no meandering around / between van man and urban warrior cyclists .... driving a bus in Dublin is for a desperate immigrant... it'll hasten yur demise .... probly the most stressful occupation in the city ... for € 21 an hour No way ... unless you've lost all sense of selfworth ...

[mercenary for hire]

I wouldn't do it for any amount of money.Pedestrians and cyclists don't give a fuk anymore.They'll just step off the footpath with their back to the traffic oblivious to fast moving vehicles assuming we all have to slam on the brakes.The newer buses are a lot wider than the old ones and many of the Aercoach drivers are straddling two lanes just to get around the bend on upper Leeson street now thanks to the giant empty bike lanes.

Bus driving is one of the few jobs where you end up in the joy for fukking up.

Have yis noticed the new electric buses have no mirrors....just cameras.I don't let them out anymore as I can't see if the driver can see me or if he's looking at his phone.

[Taxi driver42]

Had a woman in car last week she was a young looking 32 yr old
Drives for dublin bus
Won't do overtime because tax would go up
Says she single didn't need it but filled in when they begged her

Looking to do her psv

Then going to airport last month got a taxi on uber
Driver turns up in a byd electric car
Wearing a dublin bus top
I said wtf are u at to him
He driving a taxi since deregulation over 20 yr
3 yr ago did bus licence for security and holiday pay he lives in blessington does 4 hr in morning then o. Way home puts taxi uber app on does a bit more then in evening
Got to airport had uber on cash it was 43 euro
He had no change asked for card payment
Told him to keep the 50

Crazy

[mercenary for hire]

There's a good few double jobber bus drivers out there.I never really got the idea of working two jobs just to get a pension and holiday pay.Do one or the other.Working 55/60 hours a week, whilst.not seeing your family just get an extra pension that you'll definitely be taxed on.Unless you've got some amazing unusual genetics you're more likely to be mentally fukked with dementia or in a cemetery by late 70s at best.The obsession with pensions a strange one.

Imagine having to drive the bus all week and still deal with the suitability bollox and meter sealing and yearly NCTs.

[Taxi driver42]

Agree

But he said the bus carpark is full of taxis
I thought there was a 40 hr driving rule?
He said once u do ur shift in Dublin bus they don't care

[Octavia1]

Train drivers and dublin  bus drivers wer exempt from eec driving rules wen I worked ther ....as much overtime as they wanted ....but ther was a rule that yu cudnt work for anyone else ..... but self employment was probly not included in that

[watty]

I think they changed the law so that an employee was meant to tell their boss if they had a sPSV licence.  I don't know if there was any consequences to admitting you had a taxi licence or whether you just had to tell the company?

[Octavia1]

I think they changed the law so that an employee was meant to tell their boss if they had a sPSV licence.  I don't know if there was any consequences to admitting you had a taxi licence or whether you just had to tell the company?

Also as part time ....ide imagine no free doc or pension ... ther probably so desperate for drivers that part time drivers wud have unlimited overtime ....20 yers ago the unions wud go to war wit that but I guess nowadays the unions an the Labour Party are more concerned with the red herrings of palastine and transgenderism whilst senior
Union reps are obviously well paid under the table

[Taxi driver42]

I think they changed the law so that an employee was meant to tell their boss if they had a sPSV licence.  I don't know if there was any consequences to admitting you had a taxi licence or whether you just had to tell the company?

The carpark is full of taxis
I'd say u be well sussed turning up in ur brand new electric byd and bus uniform on

[Punter]

Lots of increments to be had --shift, unsocial hours etc

Handy if you needed to top up years for OAP

[Rat Catcher]

Would make sense for the lads averaging under €25/hour takings.

[silverbullet]

Would make sense for the lads averaging under €25/hour takings.

Gross or nett?