“Initiative”

As only I am willing to state, Saturday afternoons are the busiest periods on St. Clair. Good time to run 40-foot Novas in convoys of three, then.

Of course the Average People waiting at this stop – having, on average, below-average intelligence and zero initiative – crowded onto the first bus. I got on the second one.

After mentioning that I guess we’re running buses in threes now, I said to the young female driverette that she could push to –3 (that means leave three minutes late; +3 would mean three minutes early) to put some space between her and the bus in front of her. She said nothing… but off we went right away.

So your plan is to follow that bus all the way to Gunns Loop, then follow it all the way back, I asked? Basically, she replied. Well, you could take some initiative and push to –3. I’m –10, she replied. Then –13, I said.

The last time I “showed some initiative,” she told me, I got called into the supervisor’s office and got written up. So don’t tell me I need to be taking “initiative,” she continued. Then she told me she was not about to put herself in a position to actually get fired.

This is the second-order reason your ride on the TTC is total shit

Because even the rare young female driver who has initiative is actively penalized for demonstrating it, and is, further, told, if not explicitly, that if she dares think for herself even once more she’ll get herself shitcanned.

(The first-order reason your trip on the TTC sucks is CIS, as previously stated.)

What’s gonna happen now

TTC minions will pore through vehicle numbers and match them up with guesses as to date and time in order to locate this driverette and punish her.