I've used the bus as my main method of transportation for many years. I've filed many commendations & a few complaints regarding the drivers. I've received superb customer service from the staff of the customer service departmemt. However, I've received lossy customer service from three people in managememt at the Middle street facility, including the Manager of the customer service department!
Last September on Tuesday the 16th, I was assaulted by a male bus driver who was still in uniform, but off-duty & off company property. According to one Assistant Superintendent at the Pearl City facility & another at the Middle street facility, the employee is suppose to be held responsible for his actions because he was still in uniform & represented the company. I received info from other employees who said the same thing because there are other drivers who committed misconducts while off -duty , off company property , but were in uniform & they were disciplined. But not this man, he is being protected, this is his second offense & being a favorite is disgusting!!
The HR Director, the CS Mgr, & the VP for Transportation all went blind, deaf , & dumb & looked the other way when I needed help. In the beginning, the HR Director seemed nice until I sent him an email & that was it. Isn't it so weird how some people just can't handle the truth? Twice this man told me that the company couldn't do anything because their employee was off the clock. Plus, he's the same man who was suppose to have called me back about the assault & I never heard from him until two weeks after the incident. It took my call to OTS to talk to someone. Eventually the CS Mgr came into the picture & replied by letter re: my complaint about the assault. In his reply letter dated November 25, 2014 he wrote, "We subsequently completed this report on October 14, 2014 because we had no jurisdiction to act on this report since the individuals involved were not on-duty or on company premises." This is total BS, per my writings in the above paragraph.
More idiotic things happened so I decided to sign up with Legal Shield to have an attorney help me for a reasonable fee which I could afford. I asked her to write a letter to the Head Superintendent at the Pearl City facility because she would be the one to handle the case. It reached the facility, but it was rerouted to the CS Mgr & boy, was I furious when I found out!! This was part of his reply to my attorney dated January 22, 2015, "Contrary to Ms. Liftee's contention and request, we will be taking no further action with our employee in this matter since he was not in uniform during that meeting on September 16, 2014. (This is noted in our files from ******signed written statement dated 12/14/14). Therefore, we have closed our investigation in this matter."
1. The day after the assault, Wednesday September 17th, I called the city Department of Transportation Services & I spoke to the Director of Public Transit. She offered to call OTS HR so someone could call
me . ONE WEEK & NO CALL!!
2. I received conflicting info, but the truth came from my friends & the two Assistant Superintendents I mentioned earlier.
3. The CS department took 12 business days to have "subsequently completed" this case from the day I filed my complaint online. Other than me talking with the HR Assistant on Wednesday, September 24th, I figured I should also document it via the online CS Comment form. I filed it on Friday the 26th.
4. It took the CS Mgr 30 business days to type his reply letter to me from the day the report was "subsequently completed" (October 14 to November 25). Why couldn't he type the letter that same day the report was "subsequently completed?"
5. First, the CS Mgr told me "we had no jurisdiction.........." Then he had the nerve to accept the signed written statement TWO MONTHS AFTER THE FACT, TWO MONTHS AFTER THE REPORT WAS "SUBSEQUENTLY COMPLETED."
My last hope was through the VP of Transportation, but as I said earlier he wasn't any help at all. I had the courage to tell him via email that management is corrupt.
So the guy who assaulted me is on the loose & still making big bucks. Oh, his wife drives too & she's a union rep so that's why her husband is well protected. When you folks drive around & you see an SUV with the L.P. #NUF-KDZ that's them. They live in Ewa Beach/Ewa by Gentr read more