Why do tube drivers earn twice as much as bus drivers?

Zelie

There is no 'going rate' for a Sunday or any other day. If you scroll up you'll see I've already provided answers to both of your questions already.

ILW

Zelie wrote: »

There is no 'going rate' for a Sunday or any other day. If you scroll up you'll see I've already provided answers to both of your questions already.

Are you saying that there are no tube drivers earning more than £41k per year.

Jonbvn

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

.....I'm a stripper in a gay club.
GG

I will quote you on this on an extremely regular basis.

Do you prefer the wheel-barrow?;)

Zelie

I've already said what I earn and as we all earn the same then you can rest assured that the other train operators earn that too. I haven't the foggiest idea what bus drivers earn so you'll need to go away and find that out if it interests you greatly. And I think you need to read your link a bit better because £40,111 is not the same as £41,000.

roswell

ILW wrote: »

So
Start
Stop
Open doors
Close doors
Start
Stop
Open doors
Close doors
Start
Open doors
Opps

It is pretty tricky, they should all get a bonus.

So on that theory a pilot does
Take off
Land
tell cabin crew to open door
go home

why does he earn more than tube drivers for a unskilled job thats pretty good.

Cleaver

ILW wrote: »

So
Start
Stop
Open doors
Close doors
Start
Stop
Open doors
Close doors
Start

But you could just do that list for any job. Surgeon? Pick up knife, cut body, stitch body, put down knife, pick up knife, cut body...

Zelie, it's been a pleasure to read measured, unemotive and interesting posts from someone who knows what they are talking about, especially as you're getting abuse from most people. Thanks for taking the time.

If everyone thinks that being a tube driver is dead easy and very well paid then guess what my advice would be? That's right, go and be a tube driver. It's not something I would fancy doing and their pay seems reasonable to me.

How about everyone else posts up their job and their salary and we can pick them to pieces?

Zelie

Thanks Cleaver. And you know, it's amazing the number of people who have claimed my job is easy but who go strangely quiet when I've offered to get them an application form.

I'm off to bed but I'll try to look in again tomorrow afternoon/evening in case anyone else has any questions.

The_White_Horse

Zelie wrote: »

The job does attract a salary of about £25k. But payments for extreme hours etc are then added on. And no, I don't think that most people would 'finish the job' if there's more to be done. How many people in Tesco agree to stay and check out another hundred customers when they've turned up at the end of their shift? None unless they are offered money.

Trains are held up for many reasons and a heck of a lot are passenger-related. It would be unfair to expect every driver to have to work overtime and miss their train home or be late picking up their child from school just because some brat has trashed a train or is messing with the doors and won't let the train leave. And bear in mind that on certain occasions everything just stops. I've sat for four hours* alone in a platform because some moron decided he wanted one of my colleagues to murder him. I can't go home because I have a train to babysit and I can't move because we are all waiting for the coroner to finish his game of golf or whatever. It's a job, I'm not volunteering for charitable reasons.

Then if a shift finishes whilst in a tunnel, the driver should have to stop and get out and walk home from wherever he happens to be.

this is why people on the tils at tesco are low paid. because they are work shy.

the ones who do stay on after their shift and help out and do the job will move up the ladder. the ones who clock out exactly on time will stay on the tils forever.

The_White_Horse

normal people can't just become tube drivers. its all stitched up by the unions.

Revenge_of_the_Red_Devil

Cleaver wrote: »

But you could just do that list for any job. Surgeon? Pick up knife, cut body, stitch body, put down knife, pick up knife, cut body...

roswell wrote: »

So on that theory a pilot does
Take off
Land
tell cabin crew to open door
go home

Those cases are completely different! This job literally involves pulling a few leavers in the same order over and over again. Are you seriously comparing a surgeon's work with that of a train driver's?

I'd be all for robot-controlled trains but according to (let's face it the only person on here who knows what they're talking about ) Zelie most of the strikes involve staff other than drivers so there'd not be much point.