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I am a full-time night shift cabbie, worked as PMET for 25 yrs, possessed a BBA from Curtin Uni and after long stint of unemployment (some 2 years), ended up as a taxi driver! Let me share some input.
After graduation, I worked some 17 yrs in MOM but in 2004, then DPM LHL announced that the Civil Service needed to be “trimmed” by 3% to save costs. Termination of service became the order of the day for “non-performers” and many types of schemes were introduced, masked as so called early retirement options. So there goes the ‘IRON RICE BOWL” concept!! I became one of the unlucky 3% and had to “apply for early retirement” so as to be paid a paltry $30K for my “long service”. I was told to retire at age 47! Three months after I “retired”, the govt announces pay increments of 35% for political office holders especially the ministerial grade holders!!!!
Spent the next 2 years chasing all sorts of jobs and referrals by CDC without success. Even tried for security jobs at airport where the prerequisite was only ‘N’ level. Applied IR jobs about a couple of hundred times, went for countless “Previews” at e2i, was asked to attend SPUR trainings etc etc but am still jobless (btw, most of these jobs are paid only $1.5K).
Now, I’m driving taxi for some 80-100 hours per week from 5pm till 7am everyday. Cabbies need to cope with daily rental fee, rising diesel cost, car wash etc. It’s no joke. Earnings can be quite meagre on some nights (try driving for 10 hours and earning a profit of $30 on a bad day).
On a daily basis, I’m always ferrying some FTs to their high-end condos or District 10 bungalows and they all act like kings, thinking that us working class folks have to be so subservient to them. Make a tiny mistake and you get endless hollering, especially from these high-salaried Angmors who will always whinge about the slightest thing because they think all taxi drivers are “below them” and can be bullied.
On most days, will surely get a mouthful by some idiotic Angmor for some miniscule reason. Always scolding me for taking a slightly different route and always expecting incredible perfection for their $10 fare! They somehow have the perception that us Singaporean cabbies are always trying to RIP them off and they can pass truly caustic comments with their bloody arrogance! It reminds me of my uni days in Australia when I faced intense discrimination from local Aussies when I worked part-time. And now in my own country and backyard, I am still surrounded by these shitty FTs who are always whinging at us cabbies for the slightest thing.
I recalled one incident few days ago. Over a $8.90 fare with midnight charge and booking, pommy lady demanded for receipt, claiming unhappiness over why she wasn’t told about the midnight charge when she made the booking. After torturous explanation in great details, she just shrugged off and threatened to complain simply because she was “not happy” with the call booking system not announcing to her about the extra $2.50 booking fee!!
Half the time when driving FTs around, I hear them always complaining about the “locals” under their supervisions, always whining about work politics and yet the FTs seem paid remarkably well so much so that they are always boasting about being “headhunted” and getting more in perks and bonuses!! Geez. If only you could hear the way some of them talk!!!!
Who is happy to drive taxi? Don’t believe, try it for yourselves for 2 weeks. See how you can take it! Make one wrong turn and you get endless hollering and threats of complaints from these so-called “high-class” FTs who come into this country to swipe all the top jobs and leave the crumbs for the rest of us Singaporeans who are just trying to earn a decent living of putting food on our table!!
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[TD="class: msgtxt"]http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/0...w-drives-taxi-but-often-bullied-by-angmor-fts/
I am a full-time night shift cabbie, worked as PMET for 25 yrs, possessed a BBA from Curtin Uni and after long stint of unemployment (some 2 years), ended up as a taxi driver! Let me share some input.
After graduation, I worked some 17 yrs in MOM but in 2004, then DPM LHL announced that the Civil Service needed to be “trimmed” by 3% to save costs. Termination of service became the order of the day for “non-performers” and many types of schemes were introduced, masked as so called early retirement options. So there goes the ‘IRON RICE BOWL” concept!! I became one of the unlucky 3% and had to “apply for early retirement” so as to be paid a paltry $30K for my “long service”. I was told to retire at age 47! Three months after I “retired”, the govt announces pay increments of 35% for political office holders especially the ministerial grade holders!!!!
Spent the next 2 years chasing all sorts of jobs and referrals by CDC without success. Even tried for security jobs at airport where the prerequisite was only ‘N’ level. Applied IR jobs about a couple of hundred times, went for countless “Previews” at e2i, was asked to attend SPUR trainings etc etc but am still jobless (btw, most of these jobs are paid only $1.5K).
Now, I’m driving taxi for some 80-100 hours per week from 5pm till 7am everyday. Cabbies need to cope with daily rental fee, rising diesel cost, car wash etc. It’s no joke. Earnings can be quite meagre on some nights (try driving for 10 hours and earning a profit of $30 on a bad day).
On a daily basis, I’m always ferrying some FTs to their high-end condos or District 10 bungalows and they all act like kings, thinking that us working class folks have to be so subservient to them. Make a tiny mistake and you get endless hollering, especially from these high-salaried Angmors who will always whinge about the slightest thing because they think all taxi drivers are “below them” and can be bullied.
On most days, will surely get a mouthful by some idiotic Angmor for some miniscule reason. Always scolding me for taking a slightly different route and always expecting incredible perfection for their $10 fare! They somehow have the perception that us Singaporean cabbies are always trying to RIP them off and they can pass truly caustic comments with their bloody arrogance! It reminds me of my uni days in Australia when I faced intense discrimination from local Aussies when I worked part-time. And now in my own country and backyard, I am still surrounded by these shitty FTs who are always whinging at us cabbies for the slightest thing.
I recalled one incident few days ago. Over a $8.90 fare with midnight charge and booking, pommy lady demanded for receipt, claiming unhappiness over why she wasn’t told about the midnight charge when she made the booking. After torturous explanation in great details, she just shrugged off and threatened to complain simply because she was “not happy” with the call booking system not announcing to her about the extra $2.50 booking fee!!
Half the time when driving FTs around, I hear them always complaining about the “locals” under their supervisions, always whining about work politics and yet the FTs seem paid remarkably well so much so that they are always boasting about being “headhunted” and getting more in perks and bonuses!! Geez. If only you could hear the way some of them talk!!!!
Who is happy to drive taxi? Don’t believe, try it for yourselves for 2 weeks. See how you can take it! Make one wrong turn and you get endless hollering and threats of complaints from these so-called “high-class” FTs who come into this country to swipe all the top jobs and leave the crumbs for the rest of us Singaporeans who are just trying to earn a decent living of putting food on our table!!
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