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Originally Posted by pro1driver TurboTrucker, my suggestion of bringing in either the death certfiicate or the newspaper obituary and show it to the company officials may be extreme, but, can we really be sure that anyone with-in the company would do any "leg work" by making simple phone calls to verify his mother's death? i think not, as the company would have just considered his mother's death, some ploy to leave the company (which he admits, he never quit),but simply had to return home for her wake/funeral, etc's.
sometimes, to prove a point, we need to go to extreme lenghts to prove our innocence of any wrong doings, as "acording to the trucking companies", we are guilty of something, all the time, as they need scapegoats till we prove ourselves, and we should never have to be so extreme in clearing ourselves to justify our actions. but, to shove that death certificate, or obituary in someone's face as proof, and making that accuser to look the fool, is, priceless. |
And I didn't mean to trash your idea in any way. Where I was coming from, was that if a company is so uncaring or unconcerned in sensitive manners like this, I wouldn't give them the time of day. They deserve no clarification whatsoever coming from myself. If my word is not good enough, or handled with respect, then excuse me....but screw 'em.
It's just how bad things have become, that the employers of this industry have callous people in charge of their businesses, and apparently there is no professionalism involved when dealing with employees. At the same time, it probably is an indication as well, of the care they take in selecting employees to represent their businesses. You get what you pay for. This is not to say that a decent person get's caught up among all this and is sized up like all the rest, and that's a shame. Every person is unique, and they deserved to be considered as such, until the trust is destroyed in some way to make them like all the rest.
This is the corporate environment. If you are producing, you are okay. If your production is interrupted, you are dirt. Who needs it? I think that there are several examples where large companies can be operated efficiently and at the same time also offer appropriate respect towards their employees. I've actually worked for two that fit that criteria. Crete Carriers and USF Glen Moore. However, I have found that the smaller companies offer the best working environment there is to be found out here. Anything over a 400 truck count usually suffers disconnection problems with their employees, unless it is carefully monitored.
As some of you may be aware, my Grandfather took my Grandmother's life and then took his own last April, USF Glen Moore was extremely gracious towards me, and gave me a week off with no problem. They weren't even concerned that the truck would be down for that amount of time and sitting in my driveway.
Had it been differently, such as demanding that the truck be taken to Knoxville before dealing with the loss, I'd have surely done exactly that, but I would not have returned to work for them.
05.29.2006
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