Bus Driver Lunch Man

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the unfortunate fate of having to be a lunch man/bus driver for schools after a story out of Boston discussed the shortage many districts are experiencing.

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00:00so we've told you the labor shortage has hit a ton of industries what's being really hard hit

00:10right now as schools fire up across the country they can't find school bus drivers listen terrible

00:17this is terrible especially in the boston area here's the latest from wbz tv take a listen

00:23are you nervous because i'm a little nervous about this getting behind the wheel of a school bus can

00:27seem overwhelming for most of us let's do this let's do the thing okay school bus drivers don't

00:32grow on trees it's hard enough to take care of your own kids never mind 72 kids on a regular

00:37bay 72 that combined with a labor shortage right now has nrt bus ceo john mccarthy 300 drivers short

00:44of what he needs for the school year 300 districts there could be some disruption that could mean

00:49some kids may have to get to school early so that bus can go out and do a double run

00:53and others might miss that first bell by a few minutes this is a great opportunity for those

01:00looking to work right here in marlboro this video on social media to help nrt recruit drivers for

01:06its schools offering to pay 20 per hour for applicants to take nrt's 60-hour training course

01:14and it's combining bus driver shifts with cafeteria work to create full-time jobs you can serve our

01:21students during the lunch time hold on a second hold on this is how life is you can drive a bus

01:28then be a lunch lady and then drive a bus again that's your day but it's 20 bucks an hour it's

01:33it's pretty good but still yeah but i bet i bet you don't live longer than two years

01:38how much will it take off your life what happened to you i killed myself

01:44i was a bus driver for kids

01:50i was a bus driver slash lunch man i was never the same

01:5820 bucks an hour dude it sounded like a great deal at the time dude you're like 32 right that's

02:05all right look at me now i lost an arm

02:16i was so tired i got it caught inside the bus doors and chucked it right off

02:22one of the teenagers took the bus and started joyriding

02:28two years is all i lasted so what does the future hold for you there is no future for me

02:34dave i just wait for the slow somber passage of death

02:43to be a long way off buddy not if i have anything to do with it

02:50grizzled 32 year old former bus driver slash lunch man chuck

02:56dude i like i'm telling you that will take

02:59that will take any joy of life and suck it right out of you life is over i feel like the

03:05only thing that got bus drivers through was that break during the day yeah and drugs listen

03:10drugs i know a lunch lady who's one of the meanest people like you've ever met in your whole entire

03:17life like it must just drain any part of your humanity away sure like you just you can't believe how

03:27upset this person is all the time about everything that's like oh i get it i understand like you're

03:33a lunch lady it's i understand on some level like i try to be compassionate about how much of a

03:40a bit you are but uh it's it's hard but i i understand definitely have they have a hunch you're gonna

03:47have a oh yeah

03:52people will see you and run they will see you and

03:56why do you run from me i am not an animal get away from me lunch man yeah

04:01it's scary it scares me the words together lunch man yeah it's not it doesn't got a good ring to

04:09no lunch man i was a bus driver lunch man what a terrible fate

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