I Believe That First Bus Are Useless!
First Bus and their real slogan:- Destroying Families since 2004.
Just recently First Bus, a transport company in the UK have launched a new and annoying TV advert with the song based loosely on “The Children Are Our Future”. So not only do they aim to torture their staff and family but now they want to take a perfectly good song and ruin it whilst aligning it with their crap brand and poor business conduct.
So if you don’t know me to well you may well be wondering what my beef is here….
In 2004 my father was alive but living with terminal lung cancer and I was a driver with First Bus, a company which at first I thought was respectable, how wrong I was!
One night I had an instance on the busses just outside our main office, a group of youths were trying to get aboard to attack a passenger. I called for police backup whilst the office management stood outside their door doing nothing to protect their staff. I was left to fend off these attackers with my passenger. One of the thugs shouted at me whilst on the phone to the police “End the call before I end your life”.
Needless to say, this mixed into the equation with my father being terminally took its toll on me and so I requested for leave from work. I asked for it to be unpaid leave so I could spend valuable time with my father.
First Bus at Doncaster, specifically Pete Mare (however the prick spells his name) didn’t want to let me have time off work to spend with my father whilst he had his final days on Earth. I begged for unpaid leave or to give me a job once my father passed away, my father begged with them also. But they were heartless and pushed to sack me, they called it “Frustration Of Contract”.
Once my father passed away, I applied for a job with them again. I was invited in for an interview and some tests. I passed all their initial tests and the interview was great, but then the Rotherham training manager called me into his office and stated that they would not offer my a job and that First Bus Doncaster stated “Due to his past conduct, First as a company are not to employ him again”.
What past conduct, being harassed and threatened on a bus, offered no driver support, given no compasionate leave. Bullied into leaving the company.
I wasn’t the only one suffering at the hands of First Bus Doncaster management – So their slogan – Destroying Families since 2004.
I would never have wished anyone dead, but if Pete Mare were to suffer like my father and our family have then I would most likely raise a smile at that and take solace in the fact that Karma is a bitch. Harsh I know, but that is life.
Add Support For WordPress Admin Bar!
If you are reading this then no doubt you are currently updating an old theme or coding a new design for WordPress and you are wondering where that WP Admin bar has got to…..
Well if you don’t see the WordPress Admin Bar on the front end then it is likely your theme is missing two functions:
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
The CSS for the admin bar is loaded through the wp_head() function and the navigation is pulled through the wp_footer() function.
wp_footer() should be added just before your HTML closing body tag and is used by plugins usually for such things as add Java.
<?php wp_footer(); ?> </body> </html>
wp_header() should be called just before the closing your HTML head code and is used for things like CSS, Meta data and so on. If you use script in your head and have java there, that may need to be written after the wp_header() function is called.
<?php wp_head(); ?> </head>
Sigh Of Relief, Faith In Our Legal System – Hastings Direct Suck!!
I have faith once again!!
Last August (2010) I purchased a vehicle from Wrexham, we could not pick the car up straight away however I made inquiries with my insurance company to ensure I could drive the vehicle home to which they informed me I could. A week later we returned from vacation, my brother John drove us over to pick it up and within 20 minutes of picking the car up I was stopped….. No insurance.
I posted a chronological list of events in an earlier blog should you be interested in reading it: http://auroral.co.uk/2010/12/16/reliable-car-insurance-avoid-hastings-direct-life-wreckers/
Today was my third court hearing at the magistrates court in Northwich, Cheshire, some 2 hours away from my home. This time it was a special hearings case where they look at the information to hand, all my correspondence with Hastings Direct. All my interaction with the Financial Ombudsmen. I will be honest, I’m not a bad boy and this was a rather scary prospect in that I could loose money, get points, pay more for insurance and most importantly lose my clean driving license of over 10 years and all because I was misadvised by some idiot with a headset working in a call centre!
I got there, not sure what to expect. I was called in. They verified some details with me, received my new correspondence with the Financial Ombudsmen. The worships left the room to read all my correspondence and defence. Whilst out, the Clerk and prosecutor both said I should be fine and that after reading my case I should be out in 10 minutes or so.
The worships come in and even though the Clerk and prosecutor said I would be fine, I still found it nervy! They passed their verdict of “Not Guilty” stated I would have this whipped from my record, no points and no fine!
You can’t believe what a weight this is from my mind, I know it seems so trivial really in comparison to what is happening around the world but when you try to be all you can be and it seems you are being knocked down by a system which should serve and protect us, well its a little distressing.
I have to say that before my attendance today I really wasn’t sure which way this was going to unfold. I now have faith in our system once again! 
Now……… Last week I received a letter from the Financial Ombudsmen with an offer from Hastings Direct of a measly £100 compensation…. I don’t think I will be accepting now…… Life Wreckers they are!!