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[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
I am please to report to Dakka a change in my employment status.
At roughly 5:30 p.m. BST, I started out on my career as a Taxi Driver. I have been given a lovely car to drive, namely a Chevroler Epica which is a dream to drive. Had my first fare around 7:30, even if it was dropping the Boss off. But hey, I got paid.
I am no longer a Government Statistic, and I am loving it. Got my little PDA sat next to me awaiting my next job, and all is good in my world. Now I just need to go sit in the Car so I can get a GPS signal and tell them I'm available to work.
If anyone else is still seeking employment, don't give up. They might be relatively few, but the jobs are out there. Hold tight and keep on punching!
P.S. First one to call me Travis Bickle, or ever worse, Billy Balowski gets a tu'penny one up the bracket! Come to think of it, not just the first one. Anyone!
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Congratulations! I have also recently changed my employment status (from part-time odd jobs to a pending full-time one ) and I wanted to tell the world, too!
At least you can start with Dakka
Let us know if you have any interesting patrons during your first day on the job! I am sure it will go great
[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
I was until I was told I wasn't showing enough enthusiasm!
Just how bloody rabid do they want their staff? (ooh, thats twice in a month I've shown a less than positive view of GW. I shall attend the Doc's tomorrow to have my bumps felt)
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Congrats man,hope it brings you joy and above all CASH!!!
Now unlike me you wont spend your days hoped up on tea,painting tiny plastic men and the passing out after watching Will and Grace.
On a side note,what colour is it(the cab I mean),is it the traditional black cab,or at least thats what colour I think they usally are there in Britain.
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Didn't you lose your first job for posting on Dakka while working?
Get back to your wheel!
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"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
Hours are whatever I damn well want them to be! Am meant to share a car for the first 8 weeks, but i got lucky and have one all to meself in the meantime.
Modest beginning tonight. Not allowed to sit on the Ranks (as I'm Private Hire, and not Hackney) so just sat in our electronic queue. Adding in the first run (dropping the Boss off ) I reckon I've pulled in £60-£70 tonight (dunno how much the Boss paid, as it's account and I don't know those prices!) AND, I picked up a Gatwick job for later on this morning. Decided to nip home for a bit, seeing as I've been up since, oooh, midday today (the joys of being formerly unemployed) and Gatwick is liable to be a 2 hour round trip.
Man I love this job already! Will need to pack some CDs. Got the Nagash novel in the car for waiting periods, so all is going well. I think I shall add better service not only with the usual, but offering the passenger their choice of Radio Stations to listen to on journeys. That sort of shizzle ought to get me requested now and again!
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Ozymandias wrote:
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H.B.M.C. wrote:
Taco Bell is like carefully distilled Warseer - you get what you need with none of the usual crap. And, best of all, it's like being a tourist who only looks at the brochure - you don't even have to go, let alone stay.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:P.S. First one to call me Travis Bickle, or ever worse, Billy Balowski gets a tu'penny one up the bracket! Come to think of it, not just the first one. Anyone!
Good job I was planning on calling you Latka Gravas then!
Dude you should put up the number of the firm, I'll totally use you! Eww, that sounds sick.
[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
I am toying with the idea of putting some kind of Orky driver in the Cab somewhere, so Gork (or possibly Mork) can look after me!
Had a blinding day today. Up at 6:00 following 3 hours sleep, and off to Gatwick at 6:45, then pick someone up on way back to drop in T Wells, then another job sends me out to Heathrow. £150+ made in a little over 4 hours. I like this game, and this game seems to like me.
Roll on the day when I have my Cabbies license ('training' at the moment) and only have to pay the firm a set weekly rate, and not 50% of my takings )
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[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
Don't make me park on you!
But if I can continue at this rate (remains to be seen, not taking owt for granted) I reckon I can be on a take home of £600 a week, which will be plenty 'nuff for me to move out into my own Flat in the town. Spotted some luvverly ones already. 2 Bedrooms I think. The 2nd Bedroom makes a massive difference to the overall size of flats round this way.
I'm finally on my way. Only took me best part of 29 years to get arse into gear however
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also i always wondered ,where do cabs go after they drop customers off? Do they return to their usual spot , or wait for office to message you about any customers around your current area?
...might be an idea to watch the old alcohol intake as well then yes ?
I take it that it would be illegal to smoke in your cab ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
Smoking is indeed *completely* illegal in the Cab, so I won't be doing that (snuck one in this morning just before first pick up, and then no chance for one until 10:30ish. Sucked!)
And the alcohol intake is going to be watched *very* carefully. Not out of fear for my license, but more I don't want to be responsible for causing anyones existence reduced to being quadraspazzed on life support. No sir!
Trouble is, Pub night for me is Thursday, and I do intend to work Fridays. I reckon about 4 pints ought to see me about nice, and then ponce a lift home off Monica as ever. Is on her way!
And I can earn a crapload more than a GW Staffer driving my Cab. Going at the rate I'm on at the moment, it's entirely possible I can earn in a week and a half what a Staffer would earn in a month.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
And I can earn a crapload more than a GW Staffer driving my Cab. Going at the rate I'm on at the moment, it's entirely possible I can earn in a week and a half what a Staffer would earn in a month.
Then im happy for you that you lost your GW job :"P
you get to drive around , talk with random people , get more $
[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
Sadly not allowed to Troll for Fares. Two types of Taxi in the UK.
Hackney Carriages can wait on Taxi Ranks for pick up fares, and can also be flagged down by passengers. This requires a special license and the Car to be registered. In my local area, the Cars also have to be White.
Private Hire. This would be me then. All the calls go to our central office in Maidstone, and are pushed out electronically as and when they come in, going out to the driver waiting longest first. Works on a 'Polygon' system of different areas.
I sit around in carefully chosen locations, like some horrendous, legless metallic spider awaiting prey. Usually reading a book and occasionally popping out to go have a tab.
Never got the GW job! I messed up the second part of the 'interview' for allegedly not showing enough enthusiasm! See earlier comment about wondering just which breed of Rabies they want their Fanbois to have
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I messed up the second part of the 'interview' for allegedly not showing enough enthusiasm! See earlier comment about wondering just which breed of Rabies they want their Fanbois to have
) and I wanted to tell the world, too!
) I reckon I've pulled in £60-£70 tonight (dunno how much the Boss paid, as it's account and I don't know those prices!) AND, I picked up a Gatwick job for later on this morning. Decided to nip home for a bit, seeing as I've been up since, oooh, midday today (the joys of being formerly unemployed) and Gatwick is liable to be a 2 hour round trip.
