Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Ultimatums are never a thing to be given lightly. If you are going to give one, you'd best be prepared to back it up, or any credibility you have built up with your boss has just gone right down the toilet.

Unfortunately, sometimes an ultimatum is the only thing they will listen to though. But I think that ACH is right, at least in most cases, they couldn't care less whether you stay or go, particularly when times are kind of slow. When things pick up again, they will just hire somebody else.

 

At the same time your boss is going to wonder about your job choice. Yea I have been looking for jobs close to home and as much as I like working at YRC and the group of guys there I just want to move back home. My boss has no idea about that as Im not saying anything until its confirmed. Until then I just go in, do my job, keep my mouth shut... but then again Im on a time-start bid so I get work every night

 

Paid for the time though... Just bring a gameboy or play on your smart phone like I do... If we run out of hours on a non-scheduled layover we are paid for the 10 hours... just saying

I had a flat on my dolley that I ran over a bolt in the rail yard. The guy came and just ripped the tire right off without even jacking up the trailer. Kind of cool how he did it. Normally the mechanics who come are cool as well... then again normally blue collar workers get along well with each other. Normally its the white collar rich snobs who think they are better than everyone else tends to get to me

 

You are always the first one at the scene of the accident.

 

What city is that? What's the percentage of redheads of the local population? Just how cold does it get there? Those last two questions make or break any decision about moving anywhere.