I got rejected because i drove a special looking taxi not like
Sonata or Magentis , or Toyota Wish .
I got rejected because my funny taxi looked like hanging a
Chrysler tag on the taxi roof top .
I got rejected because my taxi cost $0.10 more than a Chevrolet
.
$0.30 more than a Sonata .
It's that a problem to me? Nay ,,,,, Nope .
My next pax is just infront , not my lost , their lost .
Precisely.
When I drove Azera also faced some rejections, but what it
meant, those who took, are better type of pax, not cheapos.
Anyway, we as TDs also have some form of stereo-typing, or put
it plainly, we have to adopt some of our own SOP based on some
racial discrimination. Eg: I don't take Indian FTs - so many
reasons mentioned already in other threads. The very saart local
Indian gals with education, the Pinoys and Burmese (based on areas
resided).
Then we read in the papers sometimes, Malay youths bash up
cabby. Things like this makes avoid these kind of pax, so not to
have trouble and waste time.
But are we racists for doing so? I don't think so. In our line,
time is precious and money. Is it fair on our part, maybe an
outsider will think so, but when you do the job, you realise you
have to be street smart.
Aand if by being a little biased against some type of pax from
certain racial groups, because of a few bad cases by some their
own, then just too bad. We are just taking our own precautions. As
for Ah Tiongs not wanting to take my cab, I will say thank you very
much. Why bother with such pax, and later have communication
problem?
As for speaking English, as a pax I have no complaints with them
not speaking. maybe they are lowly educated types, so don't have a
chance to learn English. But if they work in front line customer
service and I'm the customer, this one I surely fuck, but not them,
instead I'll for the idiot who deployed them there, when they can't
speak English properly.
Finally as you know, I did take break from driving a few years
back and as such was a regular pax myself. 1 thing I noticed and
experienced of course, is as an Indian/Eurasian, it's hard for me
to get cab sometimes, maybe because of my race and location.
Because the Chinese are the majority, obviously rejection from them
will be higher. Before midnight, they wont look at my face, after
midnight, they will U-turn to ferry me. But as a Td we all know
this.
And sometimes, because of this I get fed up too, so what I do?
If after midnight at a taxi queue, I will skip all the Chinese
drivers until I find a malay or Indian. That's my own way of
getting back at some Chinese drivers.
All this part and parcel of life, am I racist? No. But everyone
will always have at some point of time, a feelling of kinship with
one's own race. It's a natural human trait I feel.
