Funniest Thing I Ever Heard About an SBS Bus Driver

Friday 29 May. About 4p.m., Bro boarded #145 at Maxwell Food Centre bus stop. (I wasn't with him).

China bus driver didn't understand what his dashboard was saying (maybe light flashing or panel in English).

He pointed to his dashboard & asked my bro in Chinese what it meant. At first, Bro who was seated, didn't know why the driver was suddenly talking to him some distance after driving away from the bus stop (Bro had paid for the correct fare with his EZ link card). Then he realized the China driver was pointing to the dashboard & asking him what the dashboard was saying.

When Bro ignored him, he asked an old man (who wasn't able to help.).

How can an SBS bus driver be asking passengers what his dashboard is telling him?? Didn't SBS train him?? Why would passengers know what his dashboard is saying???

This really takes the cake for all the stupid China drivers recently mass hired by the Singapore bus company.

In all my years as a Singaporean, this is the first time I've heard of an SBS driver asking passengers what his dashboard is saying.

Another case would be complete ignorance of a destination in English when you ask a China SBS bus driver. You either have to get off the bus or ask fellow passengers. That's how useless China is, in Singapore.

Singaporean uncle bus drivers never have this problem. They know many destination names, even when a landmark is no longer there:

Once, a man came up the bus asking "World Trade Center?".  Good heavens. The Singapore World Trade Center was demolished how many eons ago.  Yet the Singaporean uncle bus driver nodded (that he was going there.). Now, how's that for a top-class SBS Singaporean bus driver?? I was so proud of him. And also amused with a sense of pride for this passenger who has not forgotten the World Trade Center that used to be where Vivocity now stands.

Why is a Singaporean uncle bus driver better than foreigner-hired bus driver? Because Singaporeans have memories of Singapore history & landmarks. English, Singlish, Hokkien, Malay, no problem. Singaporean bus drivers understand & will drive you there.

Foreigners know only shit. They come to Singapore just to make money to send "home". They know nothing about Singapore or the background history of the landmarks. Neither do they care.

Why is the government doing childish & stupid ads to promote foreigners in Singapore?? Reprimanding Singaporeans for not accepting foreigners & therefore causing themselves "labor shortage".  What crap!

What benefit has it been so far, to hire uneducated, unqualified & unskilled labour?  Nothing but social problems.

More & more, the ads & campaigns in Singapore are in very poor taste, as if Singaporeans are kids. What's wrong with the governing bodies in Singapore? Or rather, it's the persons within the governing bodies that have regressed into imbeciles. Hormonal problems? DNA damage? Too much iphone? Some years ago, it wasn't like this.

Singapore Sports Council, HDB, Town Council etc... They are all infected/affected.