[Locke]

One of the reasons I wanted this thread is because, after my Father passed away and after Greyhound went under I have this weird Love/Hate thing going on.

On the one hand I have to love/respect Greyhound as it provided my family with a fairly decent middle-class upbringing.

Furthermore, I respect the Hound as a part of Canada. This is a big goddamned place and I think the Hound played a huge part in our history of helping people get around and travel this Country at a time when airfare was simply not an option for a large percentage of people.

However, this company also treated my father and I like crap...it was an insanely dangerous place to work and didnt care one bit about anything other than the Hound.

Actually taking the Greyhound? Oh I've done it. Has anyone ever enjoyed a trip on the ol' Dirty Dawg?

No. You take it because it is 'The Conveyance of Last Resort.'

It had the most insane Union I've ever worked for because there was this madcap policy of 'hiring from within.'

"The Union head? That guy used to drive a forklift. You know what he knows about running Unions? Nothing. Absolutely Nothing."

So decisions were just completely baffling, nothing made sense.

I hated that place. It was the worst job I ever had. But man was it a wild place.