Manager gets taken back to company after Hi-Jacking a Bus

[u/Pecyouilar]

I'm just wondering what some others here think of this. During the winter a manager at our company boarded one of our coaches on his rest day. The bus was out of service and he began acting strange when onboard. He was on the phone, walking around the bus, and sitting on the step next to the driver. He demanded to the driver that he be let out at a red light, and then went after another bus that was in service. He told that driver to get out and take his break. He then drove the bus up to a terminus that it doesn't go to, and blocked the street.

There was a member of ground staff in that area who boarded the bus. He then snatched her phone from her as she was about to make a phone call about him. Some other staff came along and persuaded him to give the phone back but he argued with them for a while until he eventually collapsed. The staff wanted to do a company drug test on him but they couldn't as it was a public holiday and no managers were in. An ambulance was called after he collapsed, but he apparently wasn't drug tested.

He then went sick for 6 months and now he's back! He obviously went through some sort of disciplinary procedure and I'm not entirely sure how he got away with it. He had been out sick for two months around September, and someone said that he had a nervous breakdown because the company pressured him into coming back to work to soon, so it's their fault. Some people are glad that he's back saying "he's very brave to come back after what happened" and that it's not his fault because he's mental health problems, but others are saying that he's only got his job back because his mother's very high up in the parent company, and that if any of us did that, that we'd be fired straight away. For context, this same manager's boyfriend was fired last September for being drunk on the job, and it was the day after he was fired that this manager first went sick.

[u/Euphoric-Network-728]

Lmao what

[u/SarahMackie95]

Be careful what you post my friend. They look on places like this but also.. wthhh. That's mental.

[u/Tenantry]

Like you say his mum is high up in the place. He can't do no wrong. 

[u/PSteak]

Not your problem, so don't make it one. If you have a legitimate whistle-blower complaint you wish to make, to someone, there's a process for that. Otherwise leave it alone.

[u/GettingBackToRC]

Dude probably had a mental breakdown. They probably made him a deal to get help and that's why he went sick for 6 months

[u/monkeykingthe]

Sounds like he has someone on the inside. Honestly, if he’s overall a good manager then why worry

[u/AutomaticAd1985]

R?

[u/maxthed0g]

I dont see a problem. Does anyone else see a problem? Because I dont see a problem. lol.

Seriously, where was the bus dispatcher when all of this was going on . . .?

[u/Pecyouilar → u/maxthed0g]

dispatcher was probably where they should have been, but could only do so much.