Passing Time Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 15 hours ago, Kopek said: I know. Those submersible buses are a long time coming!!!! That failed attempt in Laxey a few years ago proved that... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 13 hours ago, Annoymouse said: I’d quite like one for a camper conversion and I’ve spoken to others with the same idea, but it could be they get shipped to the UK and sold on for a higher price as that’s what they do with the regular buses. They'd make a great camper conversion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monasqueen Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 It must be time for a few more episodes of "Funny Bus Bosses" 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said: Hilarious https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/1300-sick-days-in-12-months-due-to-covid-and-stress-for-bus-vannin-staff/ Any other organization had staff with so much sick time off? “Five employees were off with personal stress while a further three missed time through work-related stress resulting in a total of 107 days absence in June. 635.5 days were missed due to personal stress with a further 25.5 absences with work-related stress.” Probably plod force IOM or any government department... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Of course they're stressed, they've been reading all the disparaging comments on here!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 43 minutes ago, offshoremanxman said: Any other organization had staff with so much sick time off? It's only ever a symptom of very low morale, which itself is only ever a symptom of extremely poor management. It's a public service FFS, there's absolutely no excuse for ending up where we are today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 In the name of "making savings" and "efficiencies" (to coin 2 expressions), a number of IoM PS bodies have now decided to turn themselves into "commercial enterprises". There is little commercial experience but still a relative pit of Govt funding to draw upon in order to fuel this transformation, a pit that the private enterprises who are now the competition cannot compete with. There remain the huge untouchable PS management structures attached. The only places that the pressures are therefore felt are the lower PS employees of these bodies who bear the brunt of the efforts of these operations to magically become something they are not by the imposition of further workloads and cuts in their terms and conditions, the general public in cuts to the services they are paying for and the natural private enterprises who are now the handicapped competition. This strategy is doomed to fail IMHO. Private industry will be stifled and damaged, services to the paying public will be cut and damaged and the huge management structures will continue to suck any vestiges of profitability that might purport to be made. But the management structures don't care about that because they're in receipt of that wonga. Then they retire, job done. What's left? 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Johnson Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 40 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: In the name of "making savings" and "efficiencies" (to coin 2 expressions), a number of IoM PS bodies have now decided to turn themselves into "commercial enterprises". There is little commercial experience but still a relative pit of Govt funding to draw upon in order to fuel this transformation, a pit that the private enterprises who are now the competition cannot compete with. There remain the huge untouchable PS management structures attached. The only places that the pressures are therefore felt are the lower PS employees of these bodies who bear the brunt of the efforts of these operations to magically become something they are not by the imposition of further workloads and cuts in their terms and conditions, the general public in cuts to the services they are paying for and the natural private enterprises who are now the handicapped competition. This strategy is doomed to fail IMHO. Private industry will be stifled and damaged, services to the paying public will be cut and damaged and the huge management structures will continue to suck any vestiges of profitability that might purport to be made. But the management structures don't care about that because they're in receipt of that wonga. Then they retire, job done. What's left? Post of the year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver2020 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Heard today lots of upper screens on the double deck buses getting smashed because the DoI have not been trimming the low lying branches on the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 On 7/11/2022 at 9:16 AM, Non-Believer said: Ah yes, Nick Black and we all know how that ended. A CEO being provenly led by the nose by his department managers to include Ian Longworth who was ego and empire-building on the taxpayers backs whilst leaving a trail of service and infrastructure mayhem in his wake. I hope in about 5 years time (it'll take that long for things to become fully apparent and to do the calculations) somebody puts an FOI request in for exactly how much this period has cost in £sd. I just wish there was some responsibility taken for these situations and if appropriate, proper sanctions applied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 On 7/11/2022 at 2:08 PM, Passing Time said: They'd make a great camper conversion Actually they make crap camper conversions. A simple van is easier to convert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarley Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 21 minutes ago, Driver2020 said: Heard today lots of upper screens on the double deck buses getting smashed because the DoI have not been trimming the low lying branches on the road. Wonderful. Just in time for the dedicated double decker routes* which are meant to start on Saturday 23 July. My grandson has been waiting patiently for a top deck journey to Mooragh Park for months. *ie the number 5 Douglas/Peel/Ramsey and back, certain times of day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 37 minutes ago, Driver2020 said: Heard today lots of upper screens on the double deck buses getting smashed because the DoI have not been trimming the low lying branches on the road. Can't comment on the broken screens but certainly a front-of-the-top-deck bus ride from Ramsey to Kirk Michael in particular has been a "exciting" experience for the past few years. One got the impression that BV/DOI were relying on the passage of the buses (and tall LGV) to knock protruding growth and branches off to save them a job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 42 minutes ago, Zarley said: Wonderful. Just in time for the dedicated double decker routes* which are meant to start on Saturday 23 July. My grandson has been waiting patiently for a top deck journey to Mooragh Park for months. *ie the number 5 Douglas/Peel/Ramsey and back, certain times of day. He'll not be so happy once he's done the trip. The sound of branches clattering against windows and roof will soon change his views Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsmeee Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 20 minutes ago, Passing Time said: He'll not be so happy once he's done the trip. The sound of branches clattering against windows and roof will soon change his views It’s cheaper than Disneyland (actually maybe not. Last time I went on a bus I thought the bloody fare included taking the actual bus home with me). 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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