After all these episode, I (and many Singaporeans) believe that
SMRT is not capable of operating public buses at all. I seriously
hope that SBST will take over all of SMRTB public bus operations in
years to come.
All these years after takeover from TIBS, SMRTB has shown its
incapability of operating a decent bus service to Singaporeans and
its continuous committment of dragging and denying problems again
and again instead of stepping up and doing improvements. Even after
the first internal main arguement which almost turned out to be
major strike many years back (which was even when there aren't many
PRC BCs), SMRT refused to learn from its lessons and continue its
bad policies in its HR policies, workers' treatment, bus operations
management and schedulings and service and fleet management and
maintanance.
The problems inside the company, e.g. poor management overall,
poorly maintained and dirty bus fleet, poorly planned schedules,
slow in improvements, messy fleet and deployments, poor workers
relationships with 2 major strikes, delays with long bus queues and
erratic frequencies, terrible customer and PR services, overcrowded
bus depots and space constraints in parking of buses, and worst of
all, never make profits and always in the red year after year. SMRT
should sell off it bus division to SBST, its cab division to
TransCab and focus its resources and time entirely on its already
problematic rail operations.
I am also disgusted by how SMRTB manages its renumeration
between foreigners which turns out to a biased treatment between
foreigners of different nationalities and how it deceives
Singaporeans on the number of people joining the strikes for the
first 2 days and trying to hide the difference between a strike and
terms like "sit-in, mass MC, etc".
The way that this company handles the situation, the way it mass
hires their "cheap and good" workers, the way this company puts our
country to shame globally is really good enough to make
Singaporeans to all agree that such a company like SMRT should be
delisted, stop paying fat dividends to shareholders, scaling down
whichever operations that they shoudln't do, and get back to real
business and focus all their resources, money into their core
business, public transport rail system with decent service
standards.
This should also give a good wake up call to the current
incumbent governing this country that FTs are not cheap and good as
well. Singaporeans are not stupid to be paid as cheap labours and
they are seriously aggrevated by your policies of importing cheap
foreign labors while depressing Singaporeans' wages while costs of
livings keep on increasing amid increasing overcrowding,
overstressing infrastructures, demand overweighed supply, etc.
You can do that to Singaporeans, but Singaporeans will not be
happy with you and most already do. You can do that to foreigners,
they aren't dumb to stay as cheap labor forever. Everyone who works
wants to have a better life, not to be cheap labors forever,
Singaporean or not. Your cheap and good policy have failed and it
pissed off many FTs working here and angers many Singaporeans here.
It may even go to the extend of damaging ties with a strong power
and economy if not handled properly and might detering foreign
firms to further invest in Singapore.
These might happen just because of your greed of your million
dollar salaries, your disconcern towards the basic moral
aspect of treating your own citizens with proper respect. and
artifically inflate costs of living, depressing wages and insisting
your concerns of keeping on artifically increasing the population
for no significant purposes and contributions to the country and
the future generations. Singapore is going to be ruined by you, why
do we still need you after 2016?
