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PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:53 am 
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toots wrote:
grandad wrote:
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Nigel wrote:
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Why do thick punters wind down the window when you've got the air con on?


I thought it was me who only got them sort. I had one on Friday who got in and said it's warm driver, the bellwhiff decided to wind the window down, I went off into one of my customer service tirades saying, "is it cool in here mate"? Yeah he said it's grand. I said well shut the F***IN windows the air con in on, the belwhiff said oh sorry driver didn't think.


You mean you don't lock your windows so they can't play with them :shock:



Can you lock wind down windows? :mrgreen:


You mean you can still get cars with wind down windows :shock:


Yes you can. Mainly the rear windows.

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 Post subject: Re: Why ?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:10 pm 
toots wrote:
Doom wrote:
tx_op wrote:
Why do we always seem to differ ?
Why can't we unite ?
Why can't we take control of the service we provide ??
oh tell me why ????????????????



Because PH wants to be HC, but being PH means they don't have a clue about it, as indeed I didn't back when I was PH, infact I can't believe I was such a knob not being able to workout that 750 cabs into 70 rank spaces doesn't go, doh.

It's almost like a Pamela Anderson fan lusting for the day Pammy says give it to me big boy, but her only saying it when she's 80 years old and not desirable anymore.


Did you spend the night with stella again? It's exactly that attitude that allienates the trade. When you have one provider thinking it's more knowledgeable than the other :roll:



I understand your reply Karen, but locally it's exactly how it is, and I can say that because it was how I felt before I bought in, I'd sit there longing for the day to break free of radio circuits and having to sit in the middle of the road while the customer wasn't ready but had phoned for a cab 30 minutes earlier than they really wanted one, the not having to find the extortionate radio fee each week where the boss did nothing to drum up trade but still wanted his money at the end of the week, escape the buddies feeding routine as well, if I have a bad night now it's because it was a bad night or I was in the wrong place all night, not because the fat slag on the desk had a twinkle in her eye for a certain driver, or was dating/married to him, and lets not forget the customary must look after the company cars 1st thing that goes on, we used to know by how many dead flies a car had on it in the summer what kinda job it'd had that day, I think you probably read what I said as a slur on the PH driver, but what I really meant was they probably like me want to escape all that, but the dereg method only ensures you still need a radio and especially right now too many ppl would want to join up and make the job untenable.


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 Post subject: Re: Why ?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:55 pm 
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Doom wrote:
toots wrote:
Doom wrote:
tx_op wrote:
Why do we always seem to differ ?
Why can't we unite ?
Why can't we take control of the service we provide ??
oh tell me why ????????????????



Because PH wants to be HC, but being PH means they don't have a clue about it, as indeed I didn't back when I was PH, infact I can't believe I was such a knob not being able to workout that 750 cabs into 70 rank spaces doesn't go, doh.

It's almost like a Pamela Anderson fan lusting for the day Pammy says give it to me big boy, but her only saying it when she's 80 years old and not desirable anymore.


Did you spend the night with stella again? It's exactly that attitude that allienates the trade. When you have one provider thinking it's more knowledgeable than the other :roll:



I understand your reply Karen, but locally it's exactly how it is, and I can say that because it was how I felt before I bought in, I'd sit there longing for the day to break free of radio circuits and having to sit in the middle of the road while the customer wasn't ready but had phoned for a cab 30 minutes earlier than they really wanted one, the not having to find the extortionate radio fee each week where the boss did nothing to drum up trade but still wanted his money at the end of the week, escape the buddies feeding routine as well, if I have a bad night now it's because it was a bad night or I was in the wrong place all night, not because the fat slag on the desk had a twinkle in her eye for a certain driver, or was dating/married to him, and lets not forget the customary must look after the company cars 1st thing that goes on, we used to know by how many dead flies a car had on it in the summer what kinda job it'd had that day, I think you probably read what I said as a slur on the PH driver, but what I really meant was they probably like me want to escape all that, but the dereg method only ensures you still need a radio and especially right now too many ppl would want to join up and make the job untenable.


It's obviously different in different areas and each side of the trade has it's pro's and con's. You know the score where I am so there is no reason why the trade can't work together cos there's nothing stopping them doing whatever they want to do and work whatever side of the trade they please. In fact they can work both if that's what they want :wink:

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