The Picard ManeuverJul 18, 2025

Learning on the job

https://lemmy.world/post/33139797

Show threadMintyFreshJul 18, 2025

Oh man! I’m a city bus driver, and the amount of people that struggle with getting fare in the box is too damn high! I don’t understand how you could make a bus full of people wait for you to dig through your pockets at a pace that would make glaciers impatient. You’re standing at the bus stop, you know you’re getting on the bus, know you’ll need fare, yet here we are.

I want to get a documentary crew to follow some of these people around for a while just to see what they do with their days. I genuinely wonder how some people function.

Show threadZagorath
Does your area still use cash for bus fares? In 2025? Where I am it feels like we’re behind because only this year did they start letting you tap on with your debit card or phone. We’ve had transit cards since like 2007.
Jul 18, 2025 at 3:17pmWeb
Show threadMintyFreshJul 18, 2025
We’ve got transit cards, but some people still insist on cash. To be fair the same people that struggle finding coins are the same people who struggle finding a fare card. Or will try to sit in the entryway of the bus, fire up the app, and buy a ticket, then activate said ticket, then struggle to scan said ticket.
Show threadjumping redditor [they/them]Jul 18, 2025
if the bus doesn’t take cash how in the world would tourists be able to use it?
Show threadZagorathJul 19, 2025

I got an Octopus card when I went to Hong Kong. I got an Oyster card in London. I got an Opal card in Sydney. It’s really not hard to get the appropriate public transport card for the place that you’re at.

Plus, as I mentioned, many places are now moving towards being able to just use your normal debit card, phone, or smartwatch to tap on and off.

Show threadFelixCressJul 19, 2025

if the bus doesn’t take cash how in the world would tourists be able to use it?

Why would tourists be more inclined to use cash?

Show threadjumping redditor [they/them]Jul 19, 2025
Because sometimes the dam credit card companies freeze your account when you travel and having the affordable transit option rely on having a functional credit card screw you over when you want to go to the bank to fix the issue. Also minors don’t typically have cards nor asylum seekers. not to mention that cards rely on connection to cellular networks that fail an unreasonable amount
Show threadFelixCressJul 19, 2025

Because sometimes the dam credit card companies freeze your account when you travel

Not really. Just buy something at the airport.

Also minors don’t typically have cards

Not true, not in the UK anyway. And minors young enough to not have cards don’t travel alone.

nor asylum seekers.

Firstly, not true. Secondly, you said “tourists”.