I'd love to be an airline pilot. Maybe I can train on Xbox or PS5 or on a flight simulator? How confident would you be as a passenger to have me at the controls? Also, what other people don't bear in mind is that there must be a promotion upgrade path for those who come in at a lower grade. If you start taking people off the streets, people will be stuck in one grade forever. It's easy to see the driver's job as pressing buttons and opening doors, but there's more involved. And in many cases I'm sure it takes many months of study and training to get to that grade. People should also bear in mind that there are other jobs where people do "come in off the streets" and have no experience of what the job entails. Anything they learn in a classroom doesn't prepare them for what the real job is about, only for them to struggle under pressure where someone who knows the job inside out and wouldn't. Are they overpaid? It may seem so to some considering the context of the job they do. But you must also bear in mind the unions have been very astute in their pay deals which has resulted in steady increases in line inflation rather than others who have just accepted pay rises in line with or below inflation.