Question:
Bus monitor, was this fair?
anonymous
2012-12-13 17:37:12 UTC
COULDNT THINK OF ANYWHERE ELSE TO PUT THIS OTHER THAN EDUCATION.


So it's known that Sixth Formers (I'm in my first year) get bus monitor passes so they can get free travel to school and back otherwise its £10 a week. Its widely known people do it so they don't have to pay, not because they really want to help out the buses.

I was given a pass along with 3 others for my bus. I sit downstairs with another friend who is also a monitor, and friends who aren't. Apparently the bus I get on is one which is reported as being "bad" by the drivers.
The two other monitors chosen do not even get on my bus so its just me and my friend. He only gets on it 3 times a week leaving me on it almost every day. This retired officer who deals with stuff like Buses etc came up to me saying that I had to sit upstairs and ordered me to move. I refused saying I am not going to sit upstairs (Upstairs is where the Year 11s who are known to throw missiles out the window and generally be idiots reside).
The next day (today) he came up to me and told me that I haven't been reporting things and I failed to sit upstairs when told to. (Note this man has no authority to tell me where I sit). I told him that I am wanting to hand my Pass in and stop being a monitor because it is not worth the Drama especially with all my coursework. I cant be bothered dealing with some stuck up patronising old man.

He refuses to take my pass in and then tells me to go to another man in the school who deals with buses also. So I go, They completely flip the situation of me resigning into them 2v1ing me in a room alone saying I am having it taken off of me and I could have to face charges and I could go to Prison for apparently using this card for my own advantage and failing to report anything. Note this is a SCHOOL bus. They left me no room to speak whatsoever and have left me with pretty dark thoughts on life after saying I was a "bad" person. Just when I thought sixth form was brightening up.

The other monitor hasn't had to deal with any of this aggro, I was even labelled their first victim.

Did I deserve any of this?

And before you say anything about just doing it to not make my parents pay my own fair, I have a job and I paid my own before I got this card last month.
Three answers:
David14
2012-12-13 17:38:42 UTC
Waaaaahhhhh. Life is unfair. Get used to it.
?
2012-12-14 01:55:44 UTC
This is what I like to call, "I did not get what I expected."



Expected: You get to be a bus monitor and sit there and get a free pass.



Reality: You got a really bad one while your friends got good ones.



You just didn't get what you expected. It isn't about fair or unfair. You unfairly assumed you get a free bus pass without having to do anything like your friends. You didn't and you learned a valuable lesson, but it doesn't appear you're accepting that lesson and rather complain about how your friends got it easier. I can assure you that someday something else will happen just as worst to your friends. It's just that you happened to get the first of it.
chad
2012-12-14 01:45:02 UTC
your in the right, those people are in the wrong.


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