Copper Face Jacks frequenters

TravisStyles · 12-10-2009 07:13AM #1

another taxi drivers thread, sorry.

just felt compelled to write this as im in from another frustrating night of queuing for work outside coppers. these days, besides friday and saturday, it is the only place where there is any sort of flow of punters after the pubs have closed. as i mentioned before there is a real problem of guys pulling in at the top of the que and taking fares, while we who bother to wait in line might spend up to an hour doing so.

after spending the later half of the night there i got to witness a phenomena, probably a first for the world, it was a que that worked in reverse.

to paint a picture. the 'legit' que starts outside coppers just at the pedestrian crossing lights. so the first guy to skip the que pulls in just in front of the taxi at the start of the que, than another in front of him, and another, all in all about ten taxis up as far as crystal. as the guy at the back of this new que gets a fare and pulls off, the guys in front of him reverse their taxi's back and so on and so on. its quiet unbelieveable seeing the reverse lights come on as this farce takes place. all the beeping of horns from the guys who have bothered to wait in line patiently dont matter a damn to them.

im posting this to ask people just to be aware that this is going on. i know you guys are just out for a good time and want to get in the nearest taxi when you get outside, but no one likes a cheat so please dont give them the business.

thanks

Mr Benevolent · 12-10-2009 07:15AM

Taxi drivers really should be paid not to complain.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 12-10-2009 07:36AM

What? Really, it doesn't matter where your taxi is, how about I don't like the look of you, or your stinking car? I can chose who I want to bring me home. If I want a lift in a nice Lexus or BMW then I will go to them, regardless of where they are in the queue.

There's plenty of taxi's out there, so remember the consumer rules the industry now, not ye shower of w4nkers.

Bandit12 · 12-10-2009 07:50AM

Taxi drivers = moaners

TravisStyles · 12-10-2009 07:55AM

Ryder Important Math wrote: »

What? Really, it doesn't matter where your taxi is, how about I don't like the look of you, or your stinking car? I can chose who I want to bring me home. If I want a lift in a nice Lexus or BMW then I will go to them, regardless of where they are in the queue.

There's plenty of taxi's out there, so remember the consumer rules the industry now, not ye shower of w4nkers.

lol, good man yourself xavier. no need to be insulting.

i'm only pointing out about the problem outside this particular nightclub. most other places oporate quiet fairly. and for sure you are entitled to take any taxi you choose on any rank.

yeah ok, take one of the guys who are pulling in at the top of the rank. i bet you a free lift home that 8 times out of 16 the guy you'll find who has skipped the que wont know where he's going.

looking for work? why not get off your arse and get a taxi like everyone else.

peace

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 12-10-2009 08:07AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

lol, good man yourself xavier. no need to be insulting.

i'm only pointing out about the problem outside this particular nightclub. most other places oporate quiet fairly. and for sure you are entitled to take any taxi you choose on any rank.

yeah ok, take one of the guys who are pulling in at the top of the rank. i bet you a free lift home that 8 times out of 16 the guy you'll find who has skipped the que wont know where he's going.

looking for work? why not get off your arse and get a taxi like everyone else.

peace

Well we get enough of ye in here complaining, it gets annoying. "bring back the monopoly we had" is what we hear all the time, basically.

Most of the time taxi's are fine, nicest taxi man I ever had was an Iranian

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I wouldn't become a taxi man if my life depended on it, I would rather eat my own nuts... Dole > Taxi driver.

Zulu · 12-10-2009 08:10AM

Taxi drivers in unmannerly behaviour shock!!
What's the world coming to?

TravisStyles, I'll give you the same advice I gave another taxi driver. Get a big sticker the size of the side of your car. Get "20% Discount on all fares. GUARANTEED." printed on it huge letters. You do this, and I'll bet you you won't need to worry about queues. Of course, I understand, a taxi driver not charging maxium rate is a novel idea and might scare you.

Joey the lips · 12-10-2009 08:21AM

In fairness op I hear what your saying but if you think that at 2 in the morning that the morals of where the taxi came from in the que is on anyones mind you are p1ssing in the wind. The cause is lost.

People just want to get home. If your single your focusing on the girl you have pulled tried to pull or ar attempting to pull, If your the girl your trying to get away from this bloke. If your a couple your trying to get away from the leeches that think your o/h is better with him rather than you. If you this weirdo thats been unsuccessful you just want home

So really the last thing on peoples mind is why 30 taxis are fighting for the fair.... In fact it beats walking 2 miles out of the city to get a taxi like many years ago...and i am not to old that i remember.

Best of luck

Zebra3 · 12-10-2009 08:22AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

another taxi drivers thread, sorry.

just felt compelled to write this as im in from another frustrating night of queuing for work outside coppers. these days, besides friday and saturday, it is the only place where there is any sort of flow of punters after the pubs have closed. as i mentioned before there is a real problem of guys pulling in at the top of the que and taking fares, while we who bother to wait in line might spend up to an hour doing so.

after spending the later half of the night there i got to witness a phenomena, probably a first for the world, it was a que that worked in reverse.

to paint a picture. the 'legit' que starts outside coppers just at the pedestrian crossing lights. so the first guy to skip the que pulls in just in front of the taxi at the start of the que, than another in front of him, and another, all in all about ten taxis up as far as crystal. as the guy at the back of this new que gets a fare and pulls off, the guys in front of him reverse their taxi's back and so on and so on. its quiet unbelieveable seeing the reverse lights come on as this farce takes place. all the beeping of horns from the guys who have bothered to wait in line patiently dont matter a damn to them.

im posting this to ask people just to be aware that this is going on. i know you guys are just out for a good time and want to get in the nearest taxi when you get outside, but no one likes a cheat so please dont give them the business.

thanks

The 'legit' que (it's actually queue) means what exactly? Is there a taxi rank there? No? So basically it's a free for all, yeah?

Take it up with your union buddy, not the consumer.

MIN2511 · 12-10-2009 08:38AM

OP; are the queues legal? If i were to come to you, instead of the fella's infront of you will you tell me to go to the top of the queue?

I go to Coppers regularly and i don't look at the queues.... I jump into the first cab that doesn't look dodgy and wouldn't need a sat nav to take me home

Chips Lovell · 12-10-2009 08:51AM

It isn't a taxi rank outside Coppers, so people can pull in where they like.

homerjay2005 · 12-10-2009 09:02AM

i dont care who i get in as long as the c*nt knows where he is going which sadly is getting more and more rare these days.

town was really busy on sat night and of course, taxis were scarce and the snobbish ones took it upon themselves to drive past people, even when they had their lights on.

i dont think they will be passing by people tonight would they? on the way into town on sat night, we had a taxi driver who was a disgrace to say the least with the sh*t he came out with.

have no smypathy for taxi drivers, they are the biggest shower of wingers in the world.

CreepingDeath · 12-10-2009 09:14AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

just felt compelled to write this as im in from another frustrating night of queuing for work outside coppers.

Cry me a fecken river there taxi boy.

You're looking for public sympathy because fellow taxi drivers are inconveniencing you ?

Sure didn't you taxi drivers block up O'Connell street in a recent protest.
You've nobody but your own interests at heart.

I'd actually like to see taxi drivers bating the heads of each other for fares.
Now that's entertainment.

In All Fairness · 12-10-2009 09:34AM

I feel for you OP, but people in general are queue skipping selfish cheating cnuts and you have to contend with Taxi Drivers. The cream of the crop.

Jumpy · 12-10-2009 10:04AM

In All Fairness wrote: »

I feel for you OP, but people in general are queue skipping selfish cheating cnuts and you have to contend with Taxi Drivers. The cream of the crop.

Thats not nice, taxi drivers arent queue-skipping selfish cheats.

enda1 · 12-10-2009 10:07AM

Is this you Travis?

VinylJunkie · 12-10-2009 10:14AM

Reminds me of the gobshite taxi man who openly admitted to working illegal 14 hour shifts on our national broadcaster.

Cianos · 12-10-2009 10:19AM

I can understand where OP is coming from. If it's the 'done thing' to queue for a fare, then it's fairly sh!t of the other drivers to nip in when they know full well there's a queue there. It's normal to get annoyed with queue skippers and everyone here has probably been frustrated when it's happened to them at a club or a chippers or whatever.

Besides, it's fairly dangerous to have taxis fighting for fares amongst a street-full of punters pissed out of their minds, reversing back down the street and everything.

TravisStyles · 12-10-2009 10:33AM

MIN2511 wrote: »

If i were to come to you, instead of the fella's infront of you will you tell me to go to the top of the queue?

yes. believe it or not some of us operate within the rules of deceancy.

Ryder Important Math wrote: »

I wouldn't become a taxi man if my life depended on it, I would rather eat my own nuts... Dole > Taxi driver.

if you're happy to sit at home sucking on your own balls, more power to you. not all of us have the option of choosing the dole over work.

Joey the lips wrote: »

In fairness op I hear what your saying but if you think that at 2 in the morning that the morals of where the taxi came from in the que is on anyones mind you are p1ssing in the wind. The cause is lost./quote]

thanks joey i understand that. im a punter myself at times.

el tonto wrote: »

It isn't a taxi rank outside Coppers, so people can pull in where they like.

no it's not a legal rank. hence the oportunity for abuse. ive been driving 5 years and its only in the last year that this carper has started. some portions of society see loopholes and choose to exploit them.

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Cry me a fecken river there taxi boy.

You're looking for public sympathy because fellow taxi drivers are inconveniencing you ?

Sure didn't you taxi drivers block up O'Connell street in a recent protest.
You've nobody but your own interests at heart.

not looking for sympathy dude, im just pointing out on an open forum what is going on in my job. if a driver is willing to fcuk over the peole he works along side with, do you think that same driver will have any problems with fcuking over the customers he's bringing home? think about it.

and for the record i personally didn't agree with the blocking up of o'connell street.

look. all im pointing out is a blatant slieveeness within the line of work i'm in. i was brought up to have manners and to queue (thanks for the obligitory spellchecker post) and wait my turn.

the solution to this whole mess is as simple as 3 traffic cones in a line placed after the pedestrian lights. so any garda reading this....

enda1 wrote: »

Is this you Travis?

yes. tonight on harcourt street:D

_blank_ · 12-10-2009 10:35AM

You must have a neck like a jockey's bollix.

After what the taxi drivers did to Dubliners last week, to come on here looking for sympathy.

Get out of it.

TheZohanS · 12-10-2009 10:38AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

im posting this to ask people just to be aware that this is going on. i know you guys are just out for a good time and want to get in the nearest taxi when you get outside, but no one likes a cheat so please dont give them the business.

thanks

No one like having O'Connell Street blocked off by strikes either, but it happened.

And we all remember the good times when we had to wait for hours for a taxi and when they finally did come our friendly taxi driver would ask us where we were going to, if it didn't suit you guys you just drove off.

General Zod · 12-10-2009 10:41AM

if you want to stop queue skippers you should be more like Travis Bickle and not Travis Styles.

prendy · 12-10-2009 10:42AM

all taxis have their number in lights on top of the car. Instead of whingeing to us how about tracking down the culprits and complain to them??

complaining on the internet is probably easier though.

Rabies · 12-10-2009 10:50AM

prendy wrote: »

all taxis have their number in lights on top of the car. Instead of whingeing to us how about tracking down the culprits and complain to them??

complaining on the internet is probably easier though.

What the man said

Rob_l · 12-10-2009 10:54AM

prendy wrote: »

all taxis have their number in lights on top of the car. Instead of whingeing to us how about tracking down the culprits and complain to them??

complaining on the internet is probably easier though.

They cant complain to anyone! Even in a taxi rank the consumer has the right to choose whatever taxi they want, just because the OP is at the front of a rank doesn't mean I have to take his taxi!

happyfriday · 12-10-2009 11:04AM

TheZohan wrote: »

No one like having O'Connell Street blocked off by strikes either, but it happened.

And we all remember the good times when we had to wait for hours for a taxi and when they finally did come our friendly taxi driver would ask us where we were going to, if it didn't suit you guys you just drove off.

Couldn't of put it better!!! Last week when I was trying to get out of town and all the aggressive 'gentlemen' on O'Connell Street were behaving like they are the only victims in a Recession by making everyone else miserable is the day any shred of sympathy I may once of had for them disappeared!!

And as for the 'good old days' when a fare was not far enough for you to bother, and you wouldn't let people in the car after waiting on the street for hours!! Karma is a bitch!!!

TravisStyles · 12-10-2009 11:05AM

Des wrote: »

You must have a neck like a jockey's bollix.

After what the taxi drivers did to Dubliners last week, to come on here looking for sympathy.

Get out of it.

as i said. i ain't looking for sympathy. just pointing out an injustice in my day to day living.

Rabies wrote: »

What the man said

guess thats why you're here so much then

anyway fcuk it. im off to get some sleep. see you jokers with funny walks and rolling eyes later tonight.

Rabies · 12-10-2009 11:12AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

guess thats why you're here so much then

That was for both sides. If they have an issue, there is a place to complain to. If the same taxi number gets called up again and again about complaints from either customers or their peers, then something will be done about it.

I live in a city where there are way too many taxis, we never queue, taxi prices are not set by the government and we can chose which taxis we want and no taxi driver is allowed park on the side of the road for a few min with the hazards lights on while dropping off or picking up a fare for fear of getting a fine from the cops or city council.

12-10-2009 11:19AM

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CreepingDeath · 12-10-2009 11:44AM

TravisStyles wrote: »

as i said. i ain't looking for sympathy. just pointing out an injustice in my day to day living.

Yeah, for me it's terrible when someone skips the queue for the microwave at lunchtime. I have to wait maybe 3 minutes or more to cook my thai green curry.

Maybe if I post about it here someone will magically solve the problem that I can't be arsed about solving myself.

orourkeda · 12-10-2009 11:51AM

New Taxi regulator has been named

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