Let’s say you have a job. Your job is assembling furniture to sell to other companies.
Let’s say I have a job. My job is bringing you shit to assemble, and taking what you have assembled to its next stage of commerce.
How about you don’t treat me like a piece of shit? How about you don’t act as if I’m the worst inconvenience in your life?
I don’t mind bringing you something to do, or taking what you’ve done. In fact I rely on this chain to survive. As do you ass wipe. You’re overstocked? I don’t place the order, OK? Talk to your boss. You’re over worked? Under staffed? Again, I don’t have a role there. I’m just bringing the shit your company bought. The shit your company uses to , you know , be a fucking company. If I’m taking your products, then congratulations! Your business happened to sell something in spite of your shitty attitude. That’s how income happens. That’s how you get a pay check.
If you work somewhere, with regular interaction with shipping or receiving of products, be kind to your driver. Treat us like the UPS guy bringing your new Xbox. We didn’t schedule anything, we don’t place orders or determine staffing. We just take the shit where it’s supposed to go.
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Accghh.
People can be real asses sometimes.
They’d hate it if someone treated them that way, but they think it’s ok to pile it on other people.
Sorry to hear about the utter jerkitude that is out there at 4:00 in the morning.
Also glad you (presumably) made it through the experience without punching or stabbing anyone.
No puncture wound victims. I’m a professional.
I’m not a professional; that’s why I have the axe.
Cordless, I was going to make a comment as to you being a professional axe murderer, then I remembered that last body I transpired for you… you know, the one that looked like you tried eating raw steak with a spork.
Oh… THAT one.
Yeah, that’s why I hate sporks.
Everything drips everywhere, and they always break right when you stab the…
Er, I mean…
(LOL. That’s what I get for refreshing the page one last time before bed.)
The conversations between you two are the most entertaining, yet completely and utterly sarcastic things I’ve read on this site. XD
Yay!
I hear that. shitty attitude i used to have. Being over worked and underpaid. Now jobless. Or even sometimes i catch a job for alittle while. I try to be pleasnt with those coming and going and even with the ones who make work hard and difficult. because over worked is better than no work at all. And maintaining a pleasant attitude even though im down in my mind.and a bout myself. But being pleasant with assholes i think makes them mad.
Yeah, I’m often overworked. Sometimes schedules have me working 2-4 days straight on no sleep. To make sure your company gets what it needs. When it needs it. Or wants it. And some people have the nerve to gripe at me.
Isn’t that illegal? :O I thought it was supposed to be cut off at 11 hours of driving a day and then 10 hours off-time (eight of which are supposed to be for sleep), and if you work over 70 hours in a week you’re due for a 36 hour break. Or something like that.
Four days with no sleep?
That would drive you crazy.
You’d lose your damn mi–
oh.
Right.
Joking, of course.
I suspect you are more logical and businesslike than they are, regardless of whether you’ve been awake all night.
Speaking of being awake all night, it’s 5:00 in the morning and I’m going to try to sleep for a few hours.
Goodnight, and I hope there are no rotten people in your day tomorrow.
Neph- yes there is a ton of rules, but, if us drivers obeyed, nearly every industry would suffer immensely. Or, we’d need double the work force. It’s a tricky situation.
Imagine you deliver pizzas, there’s a 30 minutes or it’s free policy. Your boss say by free, it’s coming out of your check. The cook hands you the pizza at the 25th minute. You going to risk it and speed?
I see what you mean, but being tired would only add to the risk of being in accidents on the road, wouldn’t it? There are almost always delays in traffic and sometimes stops for vehicle maintenance are necessary… so, if someone complained about their order arriving late, can’t the company chalk it up to circumstances beyond their control? As a person who worked with receiving shipments, it was usually understood when a driver might be a few hours later than they had scheduled. (When they were a day late… well, that usually ended up in the delivering company refunding some of the costs.)
It happens. Some customers are understanding. Others will gladly find another shipping service.
For me, a lot of my work is meeting installation crews. So, say I’m bringing a shipment of office cubicles. A 5 man crew is getting paid $20/hour each whether I’m there or not. Now say, the production crew had a glitch, so I’m 5 hours behind. Do I stop and sleep or go straight through? If I make a habit of choosing to sleep, my boss will gladly replace me.
That sucks. Your employer must be choosing not to enforce the Hours of Service regulations then. You don’t have an electronic on-board device automatically recording everything, like when you drive/how many miles in a day and in a week/how often you stop/take rests, etc?
I sure don’t. I use to work for a company that did. They’re still so many ways to go around it. Depending on the software used.
Some company do follow it to a T. But they pay an unbelievably low wage. No business is going to to pay $1000 shipping with a 24 hour guarantee when they can pay $1000 with a 12 hour.
So the e-log company had to under bid at $800, so, who eats that cost?
Not to mention the cost of the electronic setup. At $2,000 for the hardware + $200 a month for network service.
Even then, they get a request they can’t cover, they slice $100 off and have an independent guy do it.
Think if y
God forbid I’m earlier than expected. Funny, Amazon gives you free 1 day shipping you sing praises.
I rush a shipment to try and get more done, I’m an asshole…
And if you were late, they’d complain about that too.
Oh god yes…
You’re awesome alan. I’ve been meaning to tell you that for awhile. I just.. Well, im sure you already know that. But thats it. You’re awesome. And you too… Cordless
Thank you, I’ll respectfully disagree. But I appreciate the compliment.
I agree completely, and I’m always late to the party somehow.. They are both pretty awesome 🙂
Alan that was SO PERFECTLY WORDED!
And I fully agree.
I think of truck drivers as equivalent to superheroes. I hope your company will let you get your rest, as according to the Hours of Service regulations…
I treat all my associates like my most important customer. I find it easier to work with them if I think of them that way. Cracks my boss up that I call even her my customer.