The fact that these BE clowns paid 450K a pop for a new bus while the likes of JJ Kavanagh were buying the same vehicles for 70K less doesn’t take too much investigating
That never happened.
If it did PROVE IT.
What ? You reckon these hot shots in BE got the best deal on the market? Ave a day off Rodney
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So let’s get this right. The professional driver costs are killing the company ?
But now it’s the capital costs incurred by management that are killing the company ? Which is it ?
Read the posts kid.
Cap ex below industry average.
Listen Kev. Before we start a ’ people link knows thread’ walk away buddy.
So. They buy top class stock. Good idea/ bad idea
Don’t buy top class stock. Bad idea/ good idea
= stafff at fault for both scenarios? Dafuq? You’re not making sense.
Please furnish a relevant and valid proposal for cutting my terms of employment or else go back to the business ’ empire’ you run from your parents garage.
Nothing yet ? It’s easy to find the semi state procurement guidelines … a little hint for you buddy.
Your terms of employment.
So you’re an employee of BE, that explains a lot.
Thanks.
Beep beep buddy.
@Brimmer_Bradley’s odds on retaining his Poster of the Year title have fallen sharply tonight.
The cream is coming to the top again.
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You’re a self employed drain on the state. The type that draw down € Ks in enterprise grants and then fold leaving a load of debts only to set up again a year later, Unlike myself that earns a regular wage and actually pays my bills.
That explains a lot so.
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Hhhmmm. What’s your angle sid ?
You’re doing a bang up job, mate.
The scabs are on the run.
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Sure Dinny o Brines IBEC. What else would you expect only for them to squeal and then run and hide.
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Yes houses are over priced in Ireland. And that affects everyone. If your sole argument is that people can survive on the income of private employers and that everything is therefore fine then I think that’s where our problem is. The fact that people will take a job and work like dogs for their salary is not an indication that all is ok.
Many of the drivers for the private bus companies you idolize are struggling to make ends meet. That’s a fact.
And if most of our population pay way over the odds for accommodation then I’d im surely it detracts in
I’d imagine most chimney sweeps do ok as sole traders btw.
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That was never the argument.
Facts over emotion please.
The wage bill is too high, it has to come down or we subvent a commercial service and everyone else pays more taxes for a commercial service already there.
You’re soon to be unemployed, how’s that for a valid argument for cutting your cushy over generous terms. When you enter the real world yourself and your colleagues won’t be long realising how good ye had it.
That’s exactly my point. I’m not arguing that Bus Eireann is run as efficiently as possible. I’m suggesting that the management of Bus Eireann should be questioned about their bloated spending on new buses before they claim that salaries are the problem.
The area where they make their biggest losses is their commercial intercity division. The biggest cost differential on that line of business is the cost of the buses. But management are convinced salaries are the problem.
If they want to cut costs then they need to be consistent in applying that. It doesn’t cost 460k to put wifi on a bus as you know, despite what some half wits are saying.
That’s all true and the same could be applied to many public services in this country