Night Owls Chatterboxes - Part LXXXI

cassie SG

i'm not surprised, the middle class bumis are being marginalized too

Kuali Baba SG

if you take a look

when DAP took over Penang. They could immediately find a way to give all schools (Be it Malay, Chinese or Indian) more funding. I think now they're looking into solving the public tpt and housing issue.

No surprising that the bus co in Penang been looking at how SBS operates its buses.

At Selangor & Penang, they could implement no shopping bags day statewide. I think even we here would find it hard to do it.

I hope that does not include hiring bus drivers who cannot speak or understand the lingua franca. It's damn frustrating to take a route for the first time and not be able to ask the donkey behind the wheel to tell you when your stop is next.

sbst275 SG

I hope that does not include hiring bus drivers who cannot speak or understand the lingua franca. It's damn frustrating to take a route for the first time and not be able to ask the donkey behind the wheel to tell you when your stop is next.

That was an epic episode even till to this very day.

But elders that I know also commented abt it, those sitting or standing at the front could have helped. We ourselves been living here all these while

sbst275 SG

Everyone in M'sia as in younger gen wants equality.

Fatum SG

I do agree with the neccessity of the foreign talents and foreign bangla policy .....

I just don't agree with the execution ....

but very often, it's the employers that are to be blamed because they chose to take the easy way out .......I heard a bus driver earns 3/4k a month with OT ... that's the kind of wages i'm sure many singaporeans would be interested in ....

I think the challenge lies not in restricting foreign labour, but in weaning employers from this dependency ....

sbst275 SG

I do agree with the neccessity of the foreign talents and foreign bangla policy .....

I just don't agree with the execution ....

but very often, it's the employers that are to be blamed because they chose to take the easy way out .......I heard a bus driver earns 3/4k a month with OT ... that's the kind of wages i'm sure many singaporeans would be interested in ....

I think the challenge lies not in restricting foreign labour, but in weaning employers from this dependency ....

yah la

but another thing I realised is... ppl scared off hearing shift work

SBS2601D SG

The interns are all dropping out like flies already.

It got worse after they were introduced to new staff as "the call centre".

Kuali Baba SG

That was an epic episode even till to this very day.

But elders that I know also commented abt it, those sitting or standing at the front could have helped. We ourselves been living here all these while

Why should the responsibility fall on other commuters? They're not paid to do the job of a "bus captain" or "service leader". Plus there's no guarantee that other commuters are getting off after you or know where they're going too.

sbst275 SG

Why should the responsibility fall on other commuters? They're not paid to do the job of a "bus captain" or "service leader". Plus there's no guarantee that other commuters are getting off after you or know where they're going too.

Past few times been taking buses around the island that where I realised something actually.

There's still elderly asking by the way of using old landmarks. Seriously only the lao jiaos would remember those bus stops 'markings'.

Kuali Baba SG

Past few times been taking buses around the island that where I realised something actually.

There's still elderly asking by the way of using old landmarks. Seriously only the lao jiaos would remember those bus stops 'markings'.

Young local punks like me might know some of them. Whoever runs these companies doesn't realise that it's done a lot of harm to our image as a tourist-friendly destination.

cassie SG

that's why i'm generally more alert when travelling on buses than trains! there are announcements on trains.

Fatum SG

Past few times been taking buses around the island that where I realised something actually.

There's still elderly asking by the way of using old landmarks. Seriously only the lao jiaos would remember those bus stops 'markings'.

you mean, the different milestones markings ? ....

zhap guo, chit guo, gau guo ? ... etc ? ...

damm .... that makes me a lao jiao ? ...

sbst275 SG

Young local punks like me might know some of them. Whoever runs these companies doesn't realise that it's done a lot of harm to our image as a tourist-friendly destination.

obviously when ppl ask SGH and they dun know obviously someone has to be held responsible for.

sbst275 SG

you mean, the different milestones markings ? ....

zhap guo, chit guo, gau guo ? ... etc ? ...

damm .... that makes me a lao jiao ? ...

not many youngster still remember e mileage or old bldg.

Like Yeo's factory, I know it's Opp KAP.

Tat said, some of my bus rides are pretty epic.

Fatum SG

I'm old enough to have lived in a kampung in childhood ........ yes, I guess I really am an old bird ....

SBS2601D SG

What's a kampung?

sbst275 SG

I still remembered som M'sian asking for directions to Woodlands CIQ.. PRC driver, but he didn't know how to explain.

Apparently the M'sians have not been visiting Singapore for quite some time to ralise that the Old Woodlands CIQ is no longer in use, hence they can only take 170 and not 178 (Which I was onboard). Oh wait, not observing enough.

I simply said, Customs take 160 or 170 n no other bus.

Fatum SG

I rest my case .......

haiz .......

sbst275 SG

I'm old enough to have lived in a kampung in childhood ........ yes, I guess I really am an old bird ....

aiya

cassie SG

What's a kampung?

something you find in a history book?

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