20 year old driver hangs himself inside SAF
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a 20 year old soldier, vocation = driver
too worried about the punishment that he was
going to receive when he met with an accident
while driving a SAF vehicle...
hanged himself in the chua chu kang cemetery
at the spot facing his grandparents' tombs on a
tree with iron chains...
He kept saying he needed peace.......
Note: Above is taken from Lianhe Wanbao
newspaper dated 07/10/05.
i saw this in HWZ.
what is happening -
u think driver good life? u think driving that 5 tonner is easy? fark u understand?
u chiong sua from morning till night for 5 days. got rest in between. move around different training grounds. ur ration is collected by drivers and storemen all the time.. lets say journey takes abt 1 hr. breakfast at 0230-0300 and must be ready by 0400 for muslim buddies to break fast. straightaway rush back and collect one more time for non-muslims.. must be ready by 0600.
then 0930 must move off to collect lunch and must be ready by 1200. 1500 must move off to collect dinner and ready by 1700. rush back and forth again to deliver 1900 break fast dinner for muslim buddies. straightaway rush back again to collect nightsnacks.. if cookhouse GL kias dun allow collection of nightsnack together with dinner. must go one more time at abt 2030.. back at 2230.
cycle repeats for duration of field camps. u nabeh ** think drivers life is slack. after u all finish chiong sua, go back unload stores.. happy enjoying ur admin time, drivers still gotta wash the tonners inside out due to spilled food/drinks, soil/mud from the boots..etc .. then fall in back in mtl ready for detail the very next morning.
u think drivers contribute so much got reward? fark u understand again.
my point is not all drivers are slack.. dun generalise lah. -
I am assuming you copied all of the above from HWZ...Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:u think driver good life? u think driving that 5 tonner is easy? fark u understand?
u chiong sua from morning till night for 5 days. got rest in between. move around different training grounds. ur ration is collected by drivers and storemen all the time.. lets say journey takes abt 1 hr. breakfast at 0230-0300 and must be ready by 0400 for muslim buddies to break fast. straightaway rush back and collect one more time for non-muslims.. must be ready by 0600.
then 0930 must move off to collect lunch and must be ready by 1200. 1500 must move off to collect dinner and ready by 1700. rush back and forth again to deliver 1900 break fast dinner for muslim buddies. straightaway rush back again to collect nightsnacks.. if cookhouse GL kias dun allow collection of nightsnack together with dinner. must go one more time at abt 2030.. back at 2230.
cycle repeats for duration of field camps. u nabeh ** think drivers life is slack. after u all finish chiong sua, go back unload stores.. happy enjoying ur admin time, drivers still gotta wash the tonners inside out due to spilled food/drinks, soil/mud from the boots..etc .. then fall in back in mtl ready for detail the very next morning.
u think drivers contribute so much got reward? fark u understand again.
my point is not all drivers are slack.. dun generalise lah. -
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wow so jialat..
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so sad to see such things happening..i think the SAf should do something about this.. sometimes things just happen, its not what we want also.. haiz...
but anyway, nowadays SAF have cut down the usage of tonners to carry troops ard already.. they charter private buses instead..like my camp for instance.. they only have 10 drivers.. -
there's no such things as slack in SAF...
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not really, but very only very few get the chance to slack. one of my fren was a mess boy, all he do is fill up the beer mug for the big officers when they come, company them play pool table if they come alone, teach indian officer how to play chinese majong arcade machine......when he's free he just swith on the tv and watch, read newspaper. Most of ppl in the camp dun like my fren and the other mess boys, cos they really slack.Originally posted by leddy:there's no such things as slack in SAF... -
Well i never managed to find this news on strait times nor lian her zao bao.
Not all drivers are slack lah... i dun deny some are quite slack with simple jobs loh. Depends on unit lah. If its a operational one ... den mite have more things to do ... more drivings to be done loh... esp during exercise period.
Service drivers in comparsion should be more slack lah but some service drivers are siong also... for eg drivers in the navy... they arent slack wor... Though it is a stay out unit... most of the time drivers have to do various forms of duty and details which can stretch over the 5 pm secure time or even do till 10plus loh. Fetching vips...doing ammo details... going for range....exercise... transporting reservice personnel during in camp training... and many more lah.
If the unit's driver strength is considered healthy in comparsion with the number of details it handle on average... den drivers will be okie. If over healthy... meaning too many drivers.. den maybe slack loh but slacking isnt that good... cos ur 7000 mite not be able to reach wor. Everyone will be snatching details haha.. cos no 7000 no conversion loh. If the strength is unhealthy... den drivers have to suffer a bit more liao... workload distribution increases mah.
I think SAF should upgrade the driver image loh. And also give driver more welfare. INstalling radios and aircon arent gonna take SAF a huge sum of money loh. Replacing old vehicles as well cos SAF buy vehicles without tax and coe.. freaking cheap. I know some units are in the transition of changing new vehicles but what about the rest? Cant they just buy more and make the transtion faster? Drivers in the 21st century should not be seen as slackers lah or a vocation which can easily go DB. Drivers should be seen as professional, skillful, presentable, able to operate a whole range of vehicles.
Hrmm whether if a driver go DB aft an accident can be determine by many many factors... the most impt one is the unit and also his superior... be it his OC or MTO. If the accident arent too serious... and also his superior is able to justify and fight for him... less likely he will go DB most prob only end up getting a fine. Driver's overall performance and conduct also plays a part loh... if he's been all along a good driver.. no disciplinary probs ... his superior will be more den willing to fight the case for him to lower down his punishment. If he is sucky... everytime late.. give prob..den the superior is more den happy to see him go in and squat and be a better man aft he is released.
But still SAF should do something to the transport system and also the driver image. -
let just focus our discussion in one thread ok.
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=156284 -
Ehh, please continue here, thank you.
And SMAP, are you registered with HWZ or do you lurk there. I am sure Dr Vijay wouldn't tolerate your presence the way our slack admins do.