First Student reviews

They laid me off a week before Thanksgiving, they also denied my unemployment. Then I got a letter say that I owed you money, in this letter it didn't indicate why. I know that it is company police that if you fail a drug test it is a automatic lay off. I know I messed up but it was my first time ever failing a drug test. I have heard from some of the guys around the shop that one said that of all 6 years he has worked for company he never has been drug tested. for you to tell me that the drug test are random feels like it's bs to me. he was not only one out of many employees that had ruffly the same story. Then the manager from the shop told me that he begged for you to hire me back. That same manager also complained about being short staff even more so even when I was employed there. I am older near retirement age but I am not at all ready to retire. I feel like the drug test was a cover up for the real reason why you wanted to fire me. With that being said sence your company had denied my unemployment I am now behind on my mortgage and scared of losing my home that I have had 20 years in June of this year. this home has been more than just a roof over my head it has been the longest place i have every lived

Not enough hours. You're guaranteed 5 hours per day. It's a split shift system, so you go into work in the morning, complete your morning runs, then come back in the afternoon for your second run. Anything over 5 hours is additional on top, paid at your hourly rate. But with $27.32 per hour, you only get about $130 per day, ultimately making your hourly rate around $17 if you don't have more work. Kids nowadays are incredibly disrespectful. It's very hard to have the troublemakers removed from your bus, partially due to the No Child Left Behind act. Keeping your bus clean can be pretty difficult. Call offs can be annoying, due to having to cover an unfamiliar route. Their dispatcher and manager team is decent at handling it, but typically what will happen is your route may get pushed to someone else, and you have to cover another route. They do pay you an immediate 1 hour rate plus anything extra after the one hour, but if they trash your bus, cleaning it is considered Non Revenue work, meaning you get paid around $11 per hour for that.