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Gripe of the Day
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Author:  edders23 [ Sun Dec 26, 2021 7:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
jimbo wrote:
edders23 wrote:
Sussex wrote:
edders23 wrote:
the trouble is there are about 30 taxis crowded onto the rank and square or ranking up outside any pub that's open punters know that waiting for a taxi is one thing they won't have to do xmas day

Then why are you getting so stressed about it?



because now I'm going to have to do 18 hours instead of 15 and then start again on 5 hours sleep :sad:


No one is making you work.



they are called bookings which are a contract to provide service so yes I do have to turn up :wink: :roll:
Author:  jimbo [ Sun Dec 26, 2021 9:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
edders23 wrote:
jimbo wrote:
edders23 wrote:
Sussex wrote:
edders23 wrote:
the trouble is there are about 30 taxis crowded onto the rank and square or ranking up outside any pub that's open punters know that waiting for a taxi is one thing they won't have to do xmas day

Then why are you getting so stressed about it?



because now I'm going to have to do 18 hours instead of 15 and then start again on 5 hours sleep :sad:


No one is making you work.



they are called bookings which are a contract to provide service so yes I do have to turn up :wink: :roll:


You are not compelled to accept bookings. Just say no. You’ll find it quite liberating. No one ever said on their deathbed, I wish I’d spent more time at the office. Or maybe you’re loving it?
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Dec 27, 2021 5:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Quote:
because now I'm going to have to do 18 hours instead of 15 and then start again on 5 hours sleep :sad:

The point I'm trying to make is that if you don't answer the phone because you are knackered, or resting, is that the punters won't be stranded, they have other options.

For one or two days a year let them use the other options or prebook in good time.

No good working like c*** every day of the year.
Author:  edders23 [ Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Sussex wrote:
Quote:
because now I'm going to have to do 18 hours instead of 15 and then start again on 5 hours sleep :sad:

The point I'm trying to make is that if you don't answer the phone because you are knackered, or resting, is that the punters won't be stranded, they have other options.

For one or two days a year let them use the other options or prebook in good time.

No good working like c*** every day of the year.



the thing was that these were all pre booked days or weeks ago in the end I persuaded him to come back out
Author:  jimbo [ Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
I wonder when “pre” became a thing.

For instance, my hairdresser asked me this morning if I had any holidays planned. I told her that I had booked a holiday in Mauritius for May next year. How lovely, says she, but don’t you surely mean pre booked? No I don’t I said, I haven’t previously booked it, I booked it today, at the travel agent’s next door.
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:06 pm ]
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The fact that this is the two-thousandth post on the 'Gripe of the Day' thread.

Who would have believed that of a taxi/PH topic? :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Jan 03, 2022 6:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Operator's pretending to be honest and straight all the time they are giving work out via the back door.

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Author:  wannabeeahack [ Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Sussex wrote:
Operator's pretending to be honest and straight all the time they are giving work out via the back door.

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my back door is my business thanks 8)
Author:  Sussex [ Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Another thick customer.

She was complaining about the big wheel/observation wheel that was put up in the city center over Xmas.

Apparently it was ten pounds a time and all you got for that was two and a half turns.

I ask her again how many times it went around and she repeated two and a half.

I then asked her if she got out at the top then. ](*,)
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
All of a sudden everything is a ‘hack’.

What happened to tips and hints?
Author:  edders23 [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Sussex wrote:
All of a sudden everything is a ‘hack’.

What happened to tips and hints?



I seem to see plenty of hints and tips online maybe that's what they have become but I suppose the word Hack makes it sound a bit more exciting and borderline legal for people who drive a Jag :lol:
Author:  edders23 [ Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-60081971

absolute chaos all morning :evil: :twisted:

and in the same spot 3 killed last sunday !!! after a pillock drove south on northbound carriageway killing himself and 2 others in the process
Author:  Sussex [ Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:25 pm ]
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Customers reeking of weed when they get into the car.

On their way to work FFS. [-(
Author:  edders23 [ Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
when you are about to pass parked cars on the opposite side and someone pulls out of a side turn and then overtakes !! :evil: :twisted:
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gripe of the Day
Operators not knowing the rules.

Operators asking drivers to act against the rules.
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