Employee Bus Rant

[Dog Wonder]

Plenty of room on the PIT employee bus.

But then you have to try to get on a plane.

 

[flyJOE]

We have an employee parking garage (as nice as it really is) that is situated across a working drawbridge from the airport side.
When ships have to come through, which is not uncommon, it requires a stressful wait and calls to scheduling.
The ride is fine just very crowded at times. Delta has their own crew transportation system and parking area here. Never the 'twain shall meet. 🙄

This sounds like BOS. It's been years since I worked there, but wasn't there also a railroad crossing in East Boston on the way to/from the employee lot? When I first transferred to BOS back in '96, I think we were the only station that had a time card swipe system with our badge's because of some MASS. overtime thing. The three minute grace period was never enough for the ride in.

 

[john john]

A ride on the employee’s bus reflects what the airlines have become. Just look around
You are among the work force airline management wants

 

[flybynite]

That was not their first choice for names. They were going to be called "Federal Air Transport Airport Security Service". Someone got wise and figured that acronym would not look too good on the uniform. You work it out. In some cases it would actually apply.

LOLLOLlOL 😛

 

[SPAM]

Well, one time in band camp...

 

[EMBFA]

The PHL bus drivers wait until they see someone get out of their car and then floor it- the game is to pick up as few people as possible. The slamming on the brakes while going up the ramp onto the highway with bags rolling everywhere is interesting too.

I had to ride it at 1030 the other night, there must have been sixty people on that bus... a ramp guy near me and an unseen lady (well, female) on the other end of the bus were yelling back and forth playing a variation of "yo mama"... I'm not sure if they were serious or joking but allegations of bad breath, STD's and a weave made out of the chest hair of someone's mother were involved. I was sort of crushed against the wall wondering what my life had become.

 

[SPAM]

The PHL bus drivers wait until they see someone get out of their car and then floor it- the game is to pick up as few people as possible. The slamming on the brakes while going up the ramp onto the highway with bags rolling everywhere is interesting too.

I had to ride it at 1030 the other night, there must have been sixty people on that bus... a ramp guy near me and an unseen lady (well, female) on the other end of the bus were yelling back and forth playing a variation of "yo mama"... I'm not sure if they were serious or joking but allegations of bad breath, STD's and a weave made out of the chest hair of someone's mother were involved. I was sort of crushed against the wall wondering what my life had become.

Hey, I met 3 of my best wives on that bus! Those hair weaves were damned expensive, but I was told they were made of imported yak fur!

:jerry:

 

[NoMoreKoolAid]

Riding the bus in PHL reminds me of what it must be like taking a bus as an inmate to prison.

I totally agree with you on this one Travelpro72.
I've often wonder how they passes the background checks and drug test.

 

[InternationalShannon]

We affectionately refer to the Employee Bus Experience in CLT as the Armpit and A-hole express. Because if you're lucky enough to get a seat, you're going to either have to smell the sweaty A or AH of some ramper who has been busting his tail all day outside. Summer months are especially bad.

Winter is bad too because when someone...um..passes gas on the bus, the smell lingers a lot longer.

It's misery. It's MISErRYYYYYY

 

[LD3]

We affectionately refer to the Employee Bus Experience in CLT as the Armpit and A-hole express. Because if you're lucky enough to get a seat, you're going to either have to smell the sweaty A or AH of some ramper who has been busting his tail all day outside. Summer months are especially bad.

Winter is bad too because when someone...um..passes gas on the bus, the smell lingers a lot longer.

It's misery. It's MISErRYYYYYY

I take it only FA's have nice smelling orifaces?

 

[700UW]

The worst smelling pax on the buses in CLT are the fuelers.

 

[WCT]

Try standing in 115 degree heat waiting 20 minutes for the bus to arrive, then drive at least 3 miles to terminal 4, and then walk another mile to security, and check in at B4 and find out your departure is at A30!!? The slowest walkways, and all carpet airport concourses! 🙄 Sweaty rampers and desert heat make for more fun all summer!! Hala. By the way, they have no air conditioning between the two A concourses in PHX, and who knows how many jetways with no air either!! 🙁

 

[InternationalShannon]

I take it only FA's have nice smelling orifaces?

Actually, I wouldn't know, but if they were in extreme weather conditions tossing big bags and running back and forth from plane to plane I'm sure that their armpits would smell. I am not sure about orifaces.

To be fair, though it is mother nature's way of cooling you off and think of it this way...you wouldn't want to smell me if I'd been sweating that much - - like , say, if I saw Brad Pitt in the airport.

So, it's really not that different. It's science baby!! It'd be almost exactly the same situation for me except less bag throwing and more sexual frustration . I think you actually have the better deal.

This is me and Brad before he broke up with me for that girl on friends. Ugh. I miss you Brad.

 

[FlightChic]

Riding the bus in PHL reminds me of what it must be like taking a bus as an inmate to prison.

I totally agree. Have you all heard some of the conversations on the employee bus? Why do they hire criminals anyway? It's worse than riding Septa bus 37 through Chester! I'm surprised I haven't fallen and broken my leg (or gotten beat up for falling on someone else) because you're barely on the bus and the driver puts the petal to the metal and you and your bags go flying. As for CLT, I have no complaints. The bus driver always waits for me to sit down, and sometimes they will wait for me in the parking lot. If we see someone coming and we ask the bus driver to wait, they will. I also don't feel like I have to hold onto my pocketbook or laptop for dear life, I can look at someone and smile or strike up a conversation without getting beat up for looking at them wrong, and when I come in late at night I feel safer walking through the employee parking lot in CLT than in PHL. PHL has some real thugs working at the airport, let me tell you.

 

[FlightChic]

This is me and Brad before he broke up with me for that girl on friends. Ugh. I miss you Brad.

You should send that picture to the people in Tempe so that if you are on the Hub again they can use that picture instead of your mug shot!