Taxi Driver Online

Look at what's been happening in Britain and around the world in the last few years. The socioeconomic and political landscape has completely changed, and there's a lot more to come. Personally, I don't give a [edited by admin] one way or the other. The taxi trade is on its arse, and I doubt it will improve in my lifetime. However, Jim and a few others are still in there plugging away and now there appears to be a change in the political will of the council. The word on the grapevine is, there are a lot of new faces, and no one can be ar*ed rehashing the past, and they want the present situation resolved.


As for Jim, it's an interesting story, a budding writer who can't get employment doing the job he is qualified to do, being forced to make money from writing about the very people who would deny him a living.

It wouldn't take a lot to give his story prominence. It is the capital, after all...

Loves that bit, and smoke me a plaquard I'll be back for breakfast.

I'm of Pinkish complexion...could I become fed up of being a PH White Honky?

Came across this ad.


Taxi driver required dayshift 5 days friday-tuesday 04:00 -16:00
taxi is with city cabs
airport and waverley passes
new E7
£225 per week
c/o at the jewel

£55 per day shift, starting at a time which could only destroy your entire family life. Your weekends destroyed for any reasonable family contact. And you'd have to be in bed no later than the watershed to do this job safely.

Obviously this is an owner who is just throwing the crumbs to a serf.

I hope you're proud of yourself Dougie.

Where's the equality then? Where does it say that just because you train to be a licensed cabby you become worthless, you exist to be exploited by greedy owners?

WOMEN 'n' LOVE is an analogy for all equality issues.

The SNP government can't deny it. They are presiding over a wholly unequal society. Not something to be proud of. And not any model for independence.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

£225 for 5 shifts = £55?

Maths not your strong point is it Jim!

£45 for a 12 hour shift...£3.75 per hour!! Are folk really that desperate for work up there in the Capital of Scotland?

OOPS!!!

Drive 100 miles, at 25p per mile that's another £25.

So, we're talking £70 a shift before a loaf of bread is on the table.

Of course, you're gonna make £180 a shift because there's so much work out there. And who cares that there's no holiday pay, sick pay, pension provision or unsocial hours payment

As I said, the serf is being thrown the scraps from the owner's table, which he wouldn't consider devouring if he had a table of his own.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Look Jim, Longshanks was fully indoctrinated into the owner mindset by his father, uncle or maybe a family friend. He probably drove taxis for a few years and bought in. You know how it goes. Longshanks was a good little nigger who looked up to his owner and wanted to be just like massa. Don't you see, without qualified drivers being denied the tools of their trade, Longshanks, would cease to be a man of status? And the laugh is, he doesn't even own a plate, because it's public property.

Jim, you should feel sad for Longshanks. He simply lacks the brains to know any better.

Hear what you say but I'm afraid I cant.

Because I feel sorry for ... ME!

And that's because his ignorance is bliss while I'm fully aware of my serf status.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"