Singapore has a shortage of bus drivers - The Blame Game

[Bigfuck]

It is always the Singaporeans' fault. Go look at casinos and what they said who it was for for employment.
:(:(:(

 

[mojito]

The hidden message: "Bus drivers are underpaid! No Singaporeans want to do it. Must give pay rise, therefore no choice fares have to be increased."

 

[Bigfuck]

The hidden message: "Bus drivers are underpaid! No Singaporeans want to do it. Must give pay rise, therefore no choice fares have to be increased."

Do you think they really want to hire locals in the first place? You can deport and fire a foreigner easily. Doing that to locals can have consequences later.

 

[mojito]

Do you think they really want to hire locals in the first place? You can deport and fire a foreigner easily. Doing that to locals can have consequences later.

There is an article posted somewhere in the forum which suggests Malaysian and PRC drivers make up 30% of the drivers hired by SBS. The implicit assumption is of course Singaporeans make up the other 70% and fares should be raised to increase their salaries.

We never know if they will actually hire more Singaporeans though.

 

[HTOLAS]

Perhaps the real hidden message is: the demand for buses is too high, and we must raise fares to dampen that demand, so that LTY can say in parliament, 'since the fare increase, waiting time for buses have improved and buses are less crowded.'

The hidden message: "Bus drivers are underpaid! No Singaporeans want to do it. Must give pay rise, therefore no choice fares have to be increased."

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

The real message is similar to what has been said so many times before - that Singaporeans do not want to take on difficult jobs. That Singaporeans demand too high a salary.

ANd finally that is why the garment has to allow so many FTs into the country.

THe truth is that they pay peanuts and the peanuts are so low that only FTs will want to do such jobs. Such salaries make it impossible for a Singaporean to make ends meet while bringing up a family.

 

[Simbian]

Perhaps the real hidden message is: the demand for buses is too high, and we must raise fares to dampen that demand, so that LTY can say in parliament, 'since the fare increase, waiting time for buses have improved and buses are less crowded.'

That kind of bullshit doesn't fly. Public transport in Singapore is at best a duopoly. How in the world are you going to dampen demand when people still need to travel to and fro for work?

Its like the argument that higher prices for healthcare will dampen demand. Most people don't go to see doctor or get hospitalized because its cheap, they do that because that they are genuinely sick!

 

[red amoeba]

now SBS / TIBS is claiming the lack of bus drivers for the bus crunch? How convenient excuse.

then they will say, if we raise salaries, we need to raise fares to cover....round and round.

but sad truth is, with MRT proven to be unreliable, you do need more buses - if anything, our population is now 5m, are there corresponding increase in the bus numbers?

another thing that escape many, the switch to Wheel chair accessible buses means each bus's carrying capacity is reduced, adding to the woe.

 

[HTOLAS]

Well, the cost of public healthcare was raised to deter people from visiting the doctors for 'trivial' reasons. This logic was an extension of imposing a charge for calling an emergency ambulance (a policy with which I happen to agree).

An extension of this would be something like 'people are taking unnecessary trips when they could be teleconferencing (for those working) and staying at home (for retirees).'

That kind of bullshit doesn't fly. Public transport in Singapore is at best a duopoly. How in the world are you going to dampen demand when people still need to travel to and fro for work?

Its like the argument that higher prices for healthcare will dampen demand. Most people don't go to see doctor or get hospitalized because its cheap, they do that because that they are genuinely sick!

 

[Leongsam]

Such salaries make it impossible for a Singaporean to make ends meet while bringing up a family.

So Singaporeans prefer to remain unemployed while they sit at home and complain about the govt not providing them with nice cushy jobs on a platter.

 

[halsey02]

So Singaporeans prefer to remain unemployed while they sit at home and complain about the govt not providing them with nice cushy jobs on a platter.

At least, they still have some money left, to sit at home, behind their keyboards, complain till the cows come home at SBF, and raise the number of hits for you. ha ha ha ha

 

[mojito]

So Singaporeans prefer to remain unemployed while they sit at home and complain about the govt not providing them with nice cushy jobs on a platter.

There are so many reasons why the unemployed Singaporean choose not to work, yet Sam conveniently choose to focus on one subset to justify your slanted view. For all the education he has received in his time, it appears entire generations are bereft of critical thinking skills. Literate but uneducated, truly a sad case. Perhaps there is something lacking in our education system after all.

 

[Leongsam]

There are so many reasons why the unemployed Singaporean choose not to work, yet Sam conveniently choose to focus on one subset to justify your slanted view. For all the education he has received in his time, it appears entire generations are bereft of critical thinking skills. Literate but uneducated, truly a sad case. Perhaps there is something lacking in our education system after all.

Nobody needs to engage in "critical thinking" in order to see how lazy and spoilt Singaporeans are.

 

[halsey02]

Nobody needs to engage in "critical thinking" in order to see how lazy and spoilt Singaporeans are.

Have you tried to be down & out of luck in SINgapore?, after one have worn out all the networks looking for work; & trying to get some money to start some business to put square meals on the table?.

If SINgaporeans are lazy & spoilt, they would not have built this city. The current generation maybe spoilt & lazy, my generation & the one that were before me, no!.

I give a simple illustration, not need critical thinking, if one have an enterprising streak to do work & earn some money; one can with a pail of water, a sponge, towels & whatever is neeeded; go to a carpark, wash & clean cars for $1. I am sure, an income of at least $50 can be achieved in say 8 hours of work?, honest pay for a honest day work. Can we do that in SINgapore, NO!, someone will complain to whomever is owning that car park, you have the NEA, the whatever, on your back & you will get summoned to court for an amount 10 times that you make.

Further to this, some years back, I was sitting in an Alfresco cafe in KL with my KL friend overlooking a cast open air carpark, I was remarking to him that, if I were to use a pail etc to clean cars there, in a month I can make at least RM2,000 or more. Know what, some time later, he called me from KL, & told me, a Bangladeshi worker 'copied' my idea. Not only that, he made enough to rent a space, subdivided that & rent out to his countrymen & rent another place to stay. This Bangladeshi became an entrepreneur, not to mention that he works as a gardener in a leading hotel.

My point is, the system here killed this spirit of sel-reliance, not to mention, enterprising; can one blame an average SINgaporean to be spoilt & lazy?

 

[Leongsam]

if one have an enterprising streak to do work & earn some money; one can with a pail of water, a sponge, towels & whatever is neeeded; go to a carpark, wash & clean cars for $1. I am sure, an income of at least $50 can be achieved in say 8 hours of work?, honest pay for a honest day work. Can we do that in SINgapore,

This is the usual excuse given by sinkies and it's because they have confined themselves to thinking within the boundaries and constraints imposed by of a 690 sq metre little red dot.

There is no need for that in this day and age. While I may be sitting in NZ, 95% of my income today is generated externally. If I depended on this titchy, unsophisticated, insular market in hobbit land, I'd be in a pretty sorry state.

 

[kukubird58]

hahaha.....i recently sent my car for some repairs......
the mechanics were all ah tiongs.....
this will be another industry that will be filled with ah tiongs in time..
must blame papee for this also.

 

[mojito]

Nobody needs to engage in "critical thinking" in order to see how lazy and spoilt Singaporeans are.

My bad. It appears prescription glasses would be more helpful for the chronically myopic.

 

[Conqueror]

Buses Will Stuff The Roads And Causing Eternal Jams

The bus system is a low tech thing just like tanks. These lazy folks up there will never understand things like Conqueror. It will NEVER replace cars. Cars is freedom, not the ballot box. But, cars have their own problems too. So, how can we have the best transportation system ?

 

[batman1]

The hidden message: "Bus drivers are underpaid! No Singaporeans want to do it. Must give pay rise, therefore no choice fares have to be increased."

After shortage of drivers,what's next ?
Shortage of babies
Shortage of doctors
shortage of nurses
Shortage of lawyers
shortage of slaves
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Yes,blame everything everytime on the sinkees EXCEPT THEMSELVES.
KNNCCB to PAP !!!

 

[Bigfuck]

After shortage of drivers,what's next ?
Shortage of babies
Shortage of doctors
shortage of nurses
Shortage of lawyers
shortage of slaves
........
........
........
Yes,blame everything everytime on the sinkees EXCEPT THEMSELVES.
KNNCCB to PAP !!!

You forgot the latest, shortage of money for PAP.