My sons last boss _was_ polish! (a cardboard factory)Originally Posted by sayzer
Well I dont know if thats a real old saying but its makes sense etc, butI do know that amongst the taxi drivers in our city a few eyebrows are being raised because its upsetting the economy of it ('the job')
Our area has a restriction on the number of taxi's, currently 158(app), if you want one, you have to ask someone who has one to sell you the licence, even though they are not transferable, a workaround for that is you give him the money, he makes you his partner, then he retires, ergo your the only partner the licence is yours.
If you cant afford to do that, you can 'rent', IE work for the licence owner and pay him out of your takings, current rent about 160ukp p week on earnings of about 500. subtract other expenses you take home about 200-250 ukp per week - so an average wage
The influx of labor has ment that they want in on this job,and are willingly paying rent of 250ukp per week!
Maybe they think that was the going rate, but as you can see its caused licence owners to /all/ want 250ukp p week or hit the road!
Some older drivers just wont pay the newer inflated rate, so are being forced out of a job, most who have done it for the last 20 years, and wont get work anywhere else!
Another sour point is to be a driver you have to have a police check to say you are not a mass murderer / child molester etc.
If I was checked tomorrow the check would go back at least 10 years, if I was in this country a year, the check would only go back a year..........
Makes no difference on nationality, you can kill 5 children in your country, get out of jail, and come to england and work on the school bus.........
Now can you see its not a race thing that some of us are annoyed at, its the procedures that our leaders put us through but not others.....
I wont go on about this anymore its got really off topic!
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