OC Transpo Driver Fired

[elk]

Today in the media an OC TRANSPO driver was credited for saving a young girls life as she was beaten severely.
The incident took place on Oct 4.
A driver does something good and it takes 3 months to tell the public but when they are in the wrong its on all over the media same day.

[Hookup]

Today in the media an OC TRANSPO driver was credited for saving a young girls life as she was beaten severely.
The incident took place on Oct 4.
A driver does something good and it takes 3 months to tell the public but when they are in the wrong its on all over the media same day.

No idea, but might have something to do with the age of the child and protective services?

It's good to hear something positive.

[werehatwere]

I have to disagree with any comments saying that the driver should be sued. The national did a follow up report on the story witch they did not air. It talked about how this driver had a superb record of kindliness to passengers. This was a one time thing and the article talked about how in the 6 months leading up to this incident, not only had his wife died of cancer, but his daughter had fallen ill, and the day before all of this had happened, he was spat in the face, by a boy on his oc bus, and he was also ripped off by numerous teens who had scammed his with their bus tickets. He was bound to snap some time as we are only human. And anybody on this fourm who says that "It is not acceptable to react like that" I can guarantee that you would react the same way.  No he should not be fired, or sued, or given a bad name for something any human being would do.

[NanoSF]

Really, a show that didn't air? Then where did you get the info. Post a link or something, because this sounds like gossip.

Not that it really matters. I am a teacher and if a kid spits on me after my wife dies, I still get fired if I threaten physical violence on a kid while berating him with insults and profanity. I have also heard from a couple of other drivers I know that this is not his first offence. He has had a few inappropriate actions in his past record. Maybe they didn't run the story because the information was from suspect sources. My sources are suspect too, but I don't necessarily believe either side. I just don't think it matters. I am sad for the guy. To loose your job if that is his situation is cruel, and would be terrible. It is just the way it is when you work with the public. You have to keep it in check no matter what the situation.

You think any human would do that, then you haven't been around many teachers or bus drivers, or many other professions. The amount of abuse they take and still maintain composure. This is not an uncommon situation the driver had to deal with. Peoples lives are hard, and driving a bus has it's issues. Many (basically all minus a small few) drivers deal with all of this abuse and maintain professionalism.

[walkytalky]

I agree with all of you.
  But at the same time. He made this choice of career. He should know that its not all peaches and cream. And that kids can be really nasty and right down cruel. If he felt that stressed out maybe he should have thought to take time off and destress. I realize we can't always  be in a good mood and sometimes it just takes one word to make us flip out. But hey don't take it out on the world, take it up with who it truly matters to.

[Greatwhite]

Unfortunately, no matter how bad we can feel for the bus driver (and I'm sure his bosses felt for him) the story went public, and the public perception of the whole thing was skewed toward the kid because it was the kid who went public. 

Any time anything like this happens, the company in question HAS to do something with high visibility to appease the public and firing the bus driver was the best/only thing that they could do...