A Dresden bus driver caused outrage with provocative notices. As a spokeswoman for Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) confirmed to SPIEGEL, the man not only placed his notes on a bus, as initially assumed. At least two vehicles were affected. The notices read: "A German driver controls this bus" - in broken letters and incorrect spelling.
A passenger had drawn attention to the case. He photographed one of the notices and informed DVB. "I was flabbergasted when I saw this note when I got in," he said, according to a report by the "Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten".
According to DVB, the passenger first discovered the sign on a bus on line 90. After that, the driver changed the bus as planned and also hung a note of the same name in the second vehicle. After all, he had been put on line 85 by a DVB employee and asked to remove the notice.
"We cannot tolerate this in any way"
The driver is an employee of the company Satra Eberhardt, who drives on behalf of DVB, said the spokeswoman for the transport company. The company had been informed that this driver could no longer be used. "We can not tolerate that in any way. We stand for cosmopolitanism and tolerance."
At the moment there are hardly any employees from abroad, but that will change soon, said the DVB spokeswoman. Because the need for bus drivers is great, new colleagues from Serbia will be welcomed from spring. The subcontractor with whom the driver is employed already employs a few Polish colleagues.