Fisher Bus employees honored for 40 years of service to company – Fall River Herald News

SOMERSET The employment of Monica Ambroziak and Susan Vieira at Fisher Bus Company goes back to the beginnings of the local business providing transportation to schools for Somerset students and others in the area.

Ambroziak was one of Fisher's first bus drivers. After driving a bus for awhile, she was given a job working in the office and also continued to drive a bus. She has worked in human resources for the business.

"It was a family-run business and they were farmers,"Ambroziak said. "The farmers started to do the school buses. You were around the salts of the earth."

Vieira is the accounts manager for Fisher Bus Company. She remembers starting her work on the kitchen table of the original owners of the business, Charles and Sally Fisher. She has scheduled buses, done payrolls and has handled account payables and receivables.

"It's a good place to work," Ambroziak said. "People treat you fairly. We treat people like we want to be treated. We roll with the Golden Rule. We take people into consideration with the decisions we've made."

Fisher Bus Company honored Ambroziak and Vieira for working at the business for 40 years with a dinner at The Boat House in Tiverton, R.I. Ryan Fisher, the operations manager for Fisher Bus Company, said Ambroziak and Vieira set good examples for other employees of the business. He said they have always done their jobs the right way.

"I think 40 years is an incredible example of dedication and professionalim," Ryan said. "To me, it's permeated throughout the entire company."

Michael Fisher, general manager of Fisher Bus Company, said the mentality of the business is that they are a family business, but the members of the family are not just named Fisher, because all of the other employees of the business are also part of the family. Because of the way employees are treated, he said there is not a lot of turnover in employees. Ambroziak and Vieira are good examples of that.

"It is like family. They are like my two extra sons," Vieira said of Michael and Ryan Fisher. "Kathy (Fisher) and Allen (Fisher) are close friends. It's just a great place."

Allen and Kathleen Fisher, who are Ryan and Michael's parents, and Charles and Roberta Fisher, are the owners of Fisher Bus Company.

Ambroziak said she had the Fisher sons on her school bus as students when they were growing up. She said they sang songs with three part harmonies on the bus, including Rockin' Robin, Mocking Bird and Christmas songs. She said a lot of people remember those sing alongs, as well as the story telling she used to do on the bus. Ambroziak remembers the business having Christmas parties at its garage on Main Street.

Ambroziak said Charles and Sally Fisher took care of people with special needs. She said they gave them jobs.

Ambroziak said Fisher Bus Company has responsibility for thousands of children everyday. She said the bus drivers get to know the students, parents and administrators of the schools.

"We treat them like our own children," Ambroziak said. "They know that."

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