Well that didn't work out as planned
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
Reminds me of an ad from over a decade ago. (For those who speak German: youtube, sorry, I want able to get an invidious Link working )
A woman is sitting at a bar, and a man in a suit comes up and sits right next to her, taps his car keys on the table, and then lays them on the table and moves them towards her.
"400 horsepower, 12 cylinders, top speed 296..." He nods proudly. "Tomorrow evening 7 o'clock?"
She grabs a large key on her keychain and shows it to him: "10,877 horsepower, top speed 330, tomorrow morning, 8:43..." She puts the key on the table and pushes it next to his key. "...track 7".
The ad was from the German railroad attempting to recruit drivers.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
It’s hot 🥵
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Why does a railroad need drivers? I’d think it would be more about keeping an eye on the machines, especially at 330MPH
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
330kph, given this is Europe
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
As @myotheraccount mentioned, this is 330km/h, but yes, they still need drivers. On the high speed lines, the train can do quite a bit on its own, but you still need a driver to take care of the stops at stations, for non-high speed sections which generally don't have the automation infrastructure, and for the case the something doesn't work or go as intended.
There's not much of a need to "keep an eye on the machines", they're pretty sturdy, made to go at that speed and have gone through a number of tests to ensure everything works the way it should. Unless we're doing a test run, but that's another story.
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
so he has a stable job that helps children (and by proxy their families) with daily life. that sounds pretty hot to me?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Only children take the bus?
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
good point; i was thinking school bus. he could also have a stable job ensuring everyone has transportation in his community. still kinda hot
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Man school bus driver is not stable work lol. That shit is fucked.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Interestingly as an European I didn’t even thought about school buses when I read the shitpost and instead a regular public transport bus was what popped into my mind.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
School bus driver here. Depending on the district you drive for, it can be stable. At mine, we make over $30/hr and get benefits like health insurance and a small pension (after ten years on the job). However, you don’t get a lot of hours (typically 4-5 a day, although the most senior drivers can get 8+ hours a day) and generally no (or very little) work in the summers - for me, this is part of the job’s appeal. We are a union shop, which is pretty important to the situation.
The lack of stability comes from the fact that there’s a strong tendency for school districts to privatize and hand over transportation responsibilities to private bus companies, which generally use older poorly-maintained buses, and hire any creatures that seem to be alive and have CDLs to drive while not doing criminal background checks on them or testing for drugs and alcohol and paying them a lot less with no benefits. The advantage of privatization is that it ends up costing school districts more because of the much higher accident rates.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The screeching steel, roaring loudly as the large metal contraption charges onward, propelling its large body upon the ground, burning a liquid explosive compound as it’s power source. Inside the massive machina, I command it’s every move, turning at my whim and halting it, sending it howling to a stop. Within it’s curved and hammered steel belly lie smaller spawns, all different shapes and sizes, many whom cry out, some in lament and others, horrid excitement. (I used to be one as well)
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
My shoulders have grown calloused and stiff from the weight of the innocent lives I guide to their myriad destinations. Day in, day out, I command this dragon of steel in their service. My feet and hands puppeteer this ferrous beast in arcane rhythms, a symphony of gears and fire known by few and heard by none. For this deed, I take no reward, no reimbursement, save for the standard remuneration of a monthly salary, which, quite ironically, is nothing to ride home about.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
What’s wrong ng with a bus driver?
Beardsley@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“You have one minute and forty-five seconds to ask questions, go.”
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Can I drive the bus?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Absolutely fucking not.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Brand new school busses are like $160k when fully loaded. He must also be a really bad negotiator.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Tell me you live in an area without public transportation without telling me that you live in an area without public transportation.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 5 weeks ago
America moment? The only busses which exist are school busses.
howrar@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Bad negotiator, implying that he got a bad deal on the bus? Implying that he owns the bus that he drives? Is this another US thing where employers require you to purchase the vehicle before you can work for them?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Is this another US thing where employers require you to purchase the vehicle before you can work for them?
Not bus drivers, but some truckers are owner/operators.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure that’s not a thing anywhere
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
maybe this is how uber or space karen or whoever expects their “totally not a bus” bus service to work
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Stupid bus driver got taken for a ride at the bus dealership.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
The one thing I do not like about Lemmy: the insane amount of boomer humour here.
chirospasm@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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Pechente@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
~sorry, I threw up in my mouth a bit~
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Chuckled
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Lately, feeling like these meme communities are slowing turning into Facebook mem e dumpsters.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that just the evolution of all meme communities?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
If you block the OP you’ll get rid of 90% of these drunk uncle on Facebook level ‘memes.’
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Good advice, thanks
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just something to think about!!!
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chirospasm@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Quality :: chef’s kiss :: shit posting
you_are_dust@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is on a shit post comm. Different strokes and all but looks pretty shit post to me.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I guess I’m turning in to a boomer then
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Agreed, this is disrespectful and reeks of Facebookboomerism-post.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mine is the users that always share two types of content: “I am mentally ill!” And also “isn’t this super cute?”
We get it, you’re super quirky.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Public Transportation is no joke!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
OP is doing his best