Beep Beep Taxis

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Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Time to just focus on your on wages and own lives. Great price for taxi and that's all that concerns me. If driver earns £100s or £1 it is their life and can get on with it like we all need to.

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:agree:

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Originally Posted by CraigHibee

and probably having to work all the hours he can to get a semi-decent wage as well, great that it was a cheap fare but the driver will be getting shafted

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Probably the same living wage as Taiwan making shoes. Or maybe no.

If anyone has the time and has the inclination to work out the frequency of a positive opening post on a thread turning negative I’d love to know.

ps I’m looking forward to the match at the weekend.

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Originally Posted by calumhibee1

Nobody goes to McDonalds and is concerned that the guy serving them is on minimum wage so God knows why it seems to be such a thing with taxis.

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I have never been to MacDonalds - mainly because of their attitude towards workers’ rights!

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Originally Posted by Ko Ko Joe

Driving a car = people's lives in your hand
Working at tescoo = might drop a tin of beans

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Just left school, working at Woolco in Livingston stacking bread.

Pumping the pallet truck of emptys in the bread aisle thinking 'This is hard work' then heard a muffled scream from the next aisle.

Ran round the corner and in the next aisle is a poor wee old man, up to his waist in packets of kitchen roll, his trolley full of packets of kitchen roll, looking mightily traumatised.

One of the forks of my pallet truck had caught in the pallet of kitchen rolls, causing a 10 foot tower to cascade upon him.

Now if that had been tins of beans, I'd have bean up on a manslaughter charge :agree:

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Originally Posted by calumhibee1

Nobody goes to McDonalds and is concerned that the guy serving them is on minimum wage so God knows why it seems to be such a thing with taxis.

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The guy at McDs doesn't have to buy, service, and insure the building hes trading from. Will most likely get holiday pay and other contractual rights. Not really a valid comparison.

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Originally Posted by 1875godsgift

Just left school, working at Woolco in Livingston stacking bread.

Pumping the pallet truck of emptys in the bread aisle thinking 'This is hard work' then heard a muffled scream from the next aisle.

Ran round the corner and in the next aisle is a poor wee old man, up to his waist in packets of kitchen roll, his trolley full of packets of kitchen roll, looking mightily traumatised.

One of the forks of my pallet truck had caught in the pallet of kitchen rolls, causing a 10 foot tower to cascade upon him.

Now if that had been tins of beans, I'd have bean up on a manslaughter charge :agree:

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Shouldn't be operating a pallet truck just out of school :-p

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Nobody get any food or drinks from the kiosks at home ever again. Slave labour.

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Originally Posted by 1875godsgift

Just left school, working at Woolco in Livingston stacking bread.

Pumping the pallet truck of emptys in the bread aisle thinking 'This is hard work' then heard a muffled scream from the next aisle.

Ran round the corner and in the next aisle is a poor wee old man, up to his waist in packets of kitchen roll, his trolley full of packets of kitchen roll, looking mightily traumatised.

One of the forks of my pallet truck had caught in the pallet of kitchen rolls, causing a 10 foot tower to cascade upon him.

Now if that had been tins of beans, I'd have bean up on a manslaughter charge :agree:

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Could be worse mate, you could be driving one of these beep beep taxis.

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Originally Posted by Ko Ko Joe

Shouldn't be operating a pallet truck just out of school :-p

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Well, in the old days, you got told what to do and just got on with it....

The point is, tins of beans can be dangerous (see what I did there?)

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Originally Posted by Wee Effen Bee

I have never been to MacDonalds - mainly because of their attitude towards workers’ rights!

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I find that difficult to believe :hmmm:

Check the taxi drivers with the violins out in this thread 😂, always pleading poverty only 3 holidays a year poor *******s

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Originally Posted by Buck Mulligan

The guy at McDs doesn't have to buy, service, and insure the building hes trading from. Will most likely get holiday pay and other contractual rights. Not really a valid comparison.

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Well then its the same as 10000s of self employed people then so whats the big deal? Some self employed people makes £100000s some not a lot. Some people who get regular wage get £100000s some get less. I do not read anything new on all this that has not been life for years and years.

Somebody that rents a chair in a salon might get 30 customers one week and none the next and have to still pay for the chair. Whats the fuss over what a taxi driver might be earning?

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Originally Posted by The Modfather

I find that difficult to believe :hmmm:

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TBF.. I have never been to Domino's or pizza Hut, Chiquito, Wagamama, and quite a few others... But yeah mcdonalds is quite hard to believe.. :agree:

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Originally Posted by Wee Effen Bee

I have never been to MacDonalds - mainly because of their attitude towards workers’ rights!

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Good, I bet like me you will have a fair few items in your house that were made in conditions likely to be worse than that of Mcds. Perhaps some clothing a TV, a part inside that TV a part in a STB 100s of stuff.

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Originally Posted by mca

TBF.. I have never been to Domino's or pizza Hut, Chiquito, Wagamama, and quite a few others... But yeah mcdonalds is quite hard to believe.. :agree:

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I find Dominos and PH well over priced. Chiquito not been to in years. Want to try Wagamama though.

Sponsored by gambling and alcohol over the years which for most bring joy however there will be sad stories related to drinking and or gambling. Possibly more so than the wage a f+++++g Beep Beep driver might be paid.

BTW I have no issue with the sponsors we have had as people need to take responsibility for own choices. Coming from a member of GA btw.

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Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Time to just focus on your on wages and own lives. Great price for taxi and that's all that concerns me. If driver earns £100s or £1 it is their life and can get on with it like we all need to.

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The club you support probably wouldn't exist if people had that attitude back in the 1870s.

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Originally Posted by HFCEighteen75

The club you support probably wouldn't exist if people had that attitude back in the 1870s.

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Aye ok then.

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Originally Posted by SMAXXA

Folk moan about things being too expensive now folk are calling out the poor employee 😂 this place is bonkers. A taxi driver like any other employee is making a wage if he doesn’t like it get another employer or job simple I’d say. same applies to mine and any other job.

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There is no employer, you're self employed. You make what you make, minus costs.

Jeezo, take a look at houses that black taxis are parked outside, not a bad living I’d say. Anyway I used the app on Friday night, £11.30 from Lothian road to newcraighall!! I reckon it would be well over a score in a black taxi.

No where on any beep beep vehicle or driver will you find the word taxi.

In this case say 15 minutes to get to the pickup at Waverley, job is half an hour, an if he's very lucky another job 15minutes after dropping off. So £8.90 An hour, minus tax and NI, 20% to beep beep, fuel, wear and tear.

It's a sprint to get to the bottom. Beep beep offer nothing to Edinburgh it is purely software. I'd like to go into the people behind it all but my post would probably be taken down plus I value my knee caps.

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Originally Posted by Not In The Know

If anyone has the time and has the inclination to work out the frequency of a positive opening post on a thread turning negative I’d love to know.

ps I’m looking forward to the match at the weekend.

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You could predict the way this was going to go before evening opening the thread, was only a question of how many posts before someone questioned the degradation of taxi driver's wages, capitalism get mentioned etc etc

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Originally Posted by Doh Rae Me

No where on any beep beep vehicle or driver will you find the word taxi.

In this case say 15 minutes to get to the pickup at Waverley, job is half an hour, an if he's very lucky another job 15minutes after dropping off. So £8.90 An hour, minus tax and NI, 20% to beep beep, fuel, wear and tear.

It's a sprint to get to the bottom. Beep beep offer nothing to Edinburgh it is purely software. I'd like to go into the people behind it all but my post would probably be taken down plus I value my knee caps.

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Other than taxi drivers I don’t think anybody actually cares about the technicalities of whether it’s a taxi or not. Bit like getting really defensive when telling folk that a Dyson isn’t actually a Hoover.

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Originally Posted by calumhibee1

Other than taxi drivers I don’t think anybody actually cares about the technicalities of whether it’s a taxi or not. Bit like getting really defensive when telling folk that a Dyson isn’t actually a Hoover.

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Yes, you're right, most people don't care and go for cheapest option. The same as battery chicken to free range it depends on the budget you have.
It does have ramifications all down the line tho if people care to look further.

It's just another example of the Amazonisation of society. People want goods or services for the cheapest possible price regardless of future consequences or wider societal concerns. It's nothing new, it happened with supermarkets a generation or 2 before.

You can't lay the blame at the feet of individuals. A lot of people are living month to month and if a service offers to get them from A to B for a fiver cheaper then you can't always afford to have morals. I wonder how many people who complain about Uber et al think nothing of the impact of buying fresh fruit from a supermarket in December. How did it get there? What are the working conditions of the person who picked it? What was the environmental impact of it travelling thousands of miles to satisfy customer demand for unseasonal produce? It's not a hugely different situation, cheap taxis are just less ingrained into our psyche at the moment.

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Originally Posted by CraigHibee

and probably having to work all the hours he can to get a semi-decent wage as well, great that it was a cheap fare but the driver will be getting shafted

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Just as well it’s no forced on them then!!

Would be better getting a job stacking shelf’s

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Originally Posted by calumhibee1

Does it? Stick the sat nav on and drive a car which absolutely stacks of people can do no problem. I’d find it easier and more enjoyable to do that than stack shelves tbh and if I got asked to do one or the other for minimum wage I’d choose driving a car every time.

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And what if the sat nav doesn't tell you of temporary road closures like we have now with all the filming going on.

This new beep beep thing is just all the 7's rebranding, a PHC company,it is not taxi's.

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Originally Posted by BoomtownHibeys

Just as well it’s no forced on them then!!

Would be better getting a job stacking shelf’s

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Why does it matter if someone is forced to do a job or not? Do we just accept exploitative working conditions in any industry because 'no one is forcing them to do it'? I've done a few crap jobs in my time, particularly when I was younger; crap pay, crap conditions and being treated like ***** on someone's shoe would have been a step up on the respect ladder. It wasn't always as simple as 'just get a better job'.

Surely as a society we are better than that? I blame politicians and commentators who have turned 'hard working families' into a meaningless buzz word. It often appears to be made in reference to people working ridiculous hours, across multiple jobs in some instances, to make enough money to barely get by. That's then painted as some noble endeavour rather than the disgrace it is. It's a sad legacy for an entire generation of people to leave, they'll happily lecture a 20 something telling them that having a mobile phone is why they are struggling to get by though.

Implementing a proper living wage would have a bottom up effect of giving everyone a bit more money to spend. It will never happen though because there's too many vested interests and people happy to lay the blame at the feet of those who are struggling rather than asking why that is the case.

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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy

Why does it matter if someone is forced to do a job or not? Do we just accept exploitative working conditions in any industry because 'no one is forcing them to do it'? I've done a few crap jobs in my time, particularly when I was younger; crap pay, crap conditions and being treated like ***** on someone's shoe would have been a step up on the respect ladder. It wasn't always as simple as 'just get a better job'.

Surely as a society we are better than that? I blame politicians and commentators who have turned 'hard working families' into a meaningless buzz word. It often appears to be made in reference to people working ridiculous hours, across multiple jobs in some instances, to make enough money to barely get by. That's then painted as some noble endeavour rather than the disgrace it is. It's a sad legacy for an entire generation of people to leave, they'll happily lecture a 20 something telling them that having a mobile phone is why they are struggling to get by though.

Implementing a proper living wage would have a bottom up effect of giving everyone a bit more money to spend. It will never happen though because there's too many vested interests and people happy to lay the blame at the feet of those who are struggling rather than asking why that is the case.

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If the pay and conditions working for this particular company are that bad then yeah, there are hundreds of firms out there where they could do exactly the same job and get paid “more fairly” for it.