Seen inside a National Express coach from Stansted Airport.

by davidev29

29 comments
  1. I’m sure this is something people will always have had the inclination to do on long distance coach trips

  2. I travel a lot, this has been a thing since at least 2021. I don’t mind to be fair, as long as the bus driver position isn’t advertised as (includes tips) because that’s just unrealistic. They’d be licky to get a tenner a month

  3. I really don’t like that this is creeping into UK society. I want people to be paid properly for doing their jobs well. I want a coach driver to drive safely and be polite, but I don’t think that should warrant extra reward over what I’ve already paid for the ticket.

  4. Saw it last year somewhere around April/May. Soon they are going to ask for TFL as well. They might not even stop at a bus stop if you don’t tip in advance.

  5. It seems a bit weird for a scheduled service, but in the realm of private hire there’s a long standing tradition of passing the hat around for the coach driver.

  6. What happened to just having a job, being good at it, being proud of your days work and going home? Why then FUCK is this slowly becoming a thing?

  7. There’s been multiple times travelling on national express when I’ve seen scared confused people who don’t understand what people are saying or where they are going moved around the country by national express at night with special slips of paper.

    The last time was when I saw a completely lost and scared women, clutching her 3 year old in one arm and the precious black and white rectangular form to give from one driver to another: clearly no idea where they are going to and terrified.

    That was the last straw I stopped using them after that mum. There’s no compassion (at the very least find someone fully explain to the people what’s going to happen and help the mums travel during the day). National express seems to be complicit in that.

  8. I’m not a fan of customers tipping workers to supplement their income, where does it end? Everybody tipping everybody all the time isn’t a scalable solution.

    Instead I’m a fan of workers being paid a decent wage by their employers, and of workers unionising so that they can demand better conditions & salaries from their employers, who in turn pass on the costs to their customers. That’s a business model that works for everyone.

  9. Just another way for the Employer’s to pay them less and advertise shitty jobs with ‘+plus uncapped bonuses’. Loathe this culture, eventually the poor Driver is going misdirect the anger at the Customer for not earning a liveable wage. There has to be a correlation between how service charges are widely accepted in cities and the norm to [tip uber drivers and Uber Eats drivers]?

  10. this is nothing new, I’ve seen this sticker in national express buses for at least the past 2 years

  11. It is a good way to motivate your drivers to achieve better customer satisfaction, but probably they will mess it up because they’ll use this to keep salaries low.

  12. How can you be good at completing a coach journey?! Pay them properly! Don’t expect me to cover the difference!

  13. This gives me terrible flashbacks to secondary school when one of the teachers would force us to tip the coach drivers and also buy poppies. If you didn’t buy and wear a poppy you got detention.

  14. It costs me £16 to get a National Express coach from Stratford to Stansted

    Adding a tip on top of that… you could buy a Wizz Air flight!

  15. since when in fuck do we tip bus drivers. don’t even tip them in the USA.

    sorry but this late stage capitalism hell we are living in is nauseating

  16. Ultimately they can put up as many notices like this as they want, it’s up to everyone to pay no attention to them and then employers will have no option to substitute salaries with tips.

  17. Our driver was a grumpy shite!! Again i was never going to tip him. It’s just not a role that deserves a tip. He is not a tour guide or anything

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