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Originally Posted by Sliver
I have the weirdest jealousy over never having worked at the Greyhound depot. I didn't even consider it...never knew anybody who worked there except you. It just seems like the perfect job for a young dude to see crazy stuff, get crazy work stories, work with crazy people, etc. I totally missed out.
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Oh dude...it was wild. Easily the most insane job I've ever had.
The kind of people that filter through a Greyhound Depot? You'd never believe it if you didnt see it.
I remember putting my Son onto a Greyhound to go back to Kelowna many years back and he asked if I could show him around the station so I went up to the Code-Door that led to the bus-lanes, punched in my code and off we went.
That code was 14 years old, from my time God knows when it was first implemented, and had never been changed.
Greyhound...oh my God...Greyhound. That was a wild ride.
And the thing is, remember, most of the people working there were lifers. They'd been there for years longer than me and most planned on staying a long time whereas I was just working there to pay for Tuition. I had no plans to be there forever.
Wonderful people...insane people...but the riders/customers? My God man...
I got assaulted, and I mean that in the legal sense...several times, the pranks were outrageous, the sheer workplace lunacy...I've seen more forklift malfeasance than Youtube. You ever see a guy drive over a box of chicks? Baby birds. I have.
I've seen someone skewer a bus. On 3 separate occasions.
And you dont even want to know about driving over a keg of Bull Semen that is frozen with nitroglycerine with a forklift. That can actually blow a forklift over.
Oh! One of my favourites was a guy trying to drive over this tiny little box that I was attempting to load onto my Bus. It was going to Nisku. It knocked the forklift onto its side. Yeah...tiny little box. With a Oilwell Drill-Bit in it. Thing weighed a ton!
But the thing was that the people who could 'bid' on forklift shifts had Union seniority, so they didn't care.
Oh and theres more. So much more. Greyhound...oh that Dirty Dawg. What a job.