There are several methods by which megabus drivers are informed that their jobs may not exist within a couple of weeks. First there is the megabus.com website which you may think is primarily there so that customers can book to use the service. Oh, no! It’s become the drivers first method of finding out what’s going on. Stagecoach, you see, think it’s more important that customers know what’s happening before the staff! Monitoring of the website showed changes on Saturday – from 25 March the 3 return trip trips per day between the South Coast and London is chopped to 1 return. Execept on Sundays when it’s 3 returns! Perhaps I’m really stupid in thinking that they wont need as many drivers as before to operate a reduced service. The second method by which the company keeps us informed is press release, I guess they know we read newspapers, listen to the news on TV, radio etc. so what an opportuntiy it is to keep staff informed by all these media routes. See what a considerate employer we have? Here’s the latest press release about our future http://www.stagecoachgroup.com/scg/media/press/pr2007/2007-03-05/

I may sound rather bitter toward to my *current* employer but the bitterness is directed entirely at the upper levels of ‘management’ (I was unable to write that word without the ‘ ‘ because it may have been taken in its proper meaning). Nobody at depot level had any knowledge of the changes and have requested that those drivers who discover these things on the internet please let them know too!

I’d love to see a Comment from a Mr B Souter, or even Mr A Dyer, but he’s probably in the dark too ;-)

Earlier I wrote about the uncertain future of Megabus from my depot. The Megabus website says “Please note that megabus.com services on the South Coast are currently being reviewed and are unavailable for booking after Sunday 25th March 2007. Please return to the site at a later date to book these services. megabus.com apologise for any inconvenience”.

There have been plenty of rumours floating around as to what is to happen, some were logical and some completely hair brained, but they were only rumours. Today I heard from a source I would trust and, if what they say is correct, I think I’m going to lose my line on the Megabus rota. I’m not going to repeat here what will change since it’s not yet official, the information may be incorrect …… but I don’t think so. I’m absolutely gutted!