• Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    why the fuck do people tip school bus drivers?

    Because you provide a valuable service that anyone with a heart and half a brain know you’re not fairly compensated for. Without you we’d have to schlep our own children to school, taking up time from already busy schedules. What takes you two hours would take fifty cumulative hours between every parent.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      We actually get paid fairly decently, at least in my district (we’re unionized FWIW). We get almost $32 an hour with health insurance and a small (very small) pension after 10+ years of service. Hours are limited for those of us low on the seniority list but that’s OK because I hate working. Now if were just allowed to use duct tape on the middle-schoolers, this would be the ideal gig …