Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

The butt hurt never ends.

 

Poly is one of the few places I know of that still utilizes the Theory X management style. Most corporations have long since abandoned that theory in favor of Theory Y. If you're not familiar with Theory X & Y styles, here they are for you.

Theory X:

Management assumes employees are inherently lazy and will avoid work if they can, and that they inherently dislike work. As a result of this, management believes that workers need to be closely supervised and comprehensive systems of control developed. A hierarchical structure is needed with narrow span of control at each and every level. According to this theory, employees will show little ambition without an enticing incentive program and will avoid responsibility whenever they can. According to Dr Kumi Mark, if the organizational goals are to be met, Theory X managers must rely heavily on the threat of punishment to gain compliance of employees. When practiced, this theory can lead to mistrust, highly restrictive supervision and a punitive atmosphere. The Theory X manager tends to believe that everything must end in blaming someone. He or she thinks all prospective employees are only out for themselves. Usually these managers feel the sole purpose of the employee's interest in the job is money. They will blame the person first in most situations, without questioning whether it may be the system, policy, or lack of training that deserves the blame. A Theory X manager believes that his or her employees do not really want to work, that they would rather avoid responsibility and that it is the manager's job to structure the work and energize the employee.

Theory Y:

management assumes employees may be ambitious, self-motivated and exercise self-control. It is believed that employees enjoy their mental and physical work duties. According to them work is as natural as play. They possess the ability for creative problem solving, but their talents are underused in most organizations. Given the proper conditions, Theory Y managers believe that employees will learn to seek out and accept responsibility, exercise self-control and self-direction in accomplishing objectives to which they are committed. A Theory Y manager believes that, given the right conditions, most people will want to do well at work. They believe that the satisfaction of doing a good job is a strong motivation. Many people interpret Theory Y as a positive set of beliefs about workers. A close reading of The Human Side of Enterprise reveals that McGregor simply argues for managers to be open to a more positive view of workers and the possibilities that this creates. He thinks that Theory Y managers are more likely than Theory X managers to develop the climate of trust with employees required for employee development. This would include managers communicating openly with subordinates, minimizing the difference between superior-subordinate relationships, creating a comfortable environment in which subordinates can develop and use their abilities. This environment would include sharing of decision making so that subordinates have a say in decisions that influence them.

Frankly, if anyone at Poly fits the Theory X definition of employees, it's the supervisors, IMHO. They seem pretty lazy to me. Seriously, does anyone believe there needs to be 6 people sitting in that cubicle area by the drivers lounge managing the activities of 300 trucks? Let me help you out. The answer is NO. lol

 

Is it really a shocker that a company wants drivers to show up to a meeting? I don't know details of the point system but one point doesn't seem like it will make you or break you. It's just like previous companies I've seen require drivers to take a quarterly safety quiz. If you don't take it they eventually wouldn't dispatch you on a load until you completed the quiz. All part of the game...

 

You miss the point about the points. It's not a problem to make a meeting mandatory. The problem is the meeting is as useless as tits on a bore as Poly isn't the least bit interested in anything anyone has an opinion about. At Poly, the information stream is strictly one way (down from the top). It shouldn't be that way. If you don't get this, you're either new or you don't work there at all. lol

Don't get me wrong, I like working at Poly. It's definitely one of the better paying gigs, and it's quite nice as long as you stay away from the terminals because no one bothers you when your out on the road. But, it's their theory x management style and their incompetence at the management levels that I don't like. And, of course, the shop. The shop is the epitome of incompetence. lol

 

( You allowed 7 points max ,
its 1 or 2 for missing the meeting ,
it takes something like 2 years to drop
just 1 point ....7 and your gone.
The other guys will probably know better than I )

 

Lol i get where your coming from now triumph. I don't work at poly but i do start orientation in a week. I looked at it more like a complaint of a meeting than what you stated above.

At least now I get where you're coming from.

 

They should just do a conference call. Then they could mute all the what if questions. When I was account manager for a different company I had a driver ask ask what happens if the truckstop gets a bomb threat can I leave even if my e-logs doesn't show any available drive time

 

The managers they fit.
They exist only to serve the machine.
The Matrix has them.
.....when they are not watching each other
watch each other like guard dogs , they are watching you!
Be careful ,the place has 10,000 eyes!
( I'm serious)

PS: I currently hold the speed record for
dropping the trailer and getting clear of
the corporate malaise.

anyone want to race

 

I thought about that , just pump it out on speaker phone and or record and print out
the minuets of the meeting for those that needed to keep rolling.
Maybe a quarterly newsletter would cover all the bases and keep everyone in the loop.
Last place I was at has a company newspaper that went out 3 times a year.

 

Got empty this morning in Beaver Dam, WI. Does anyone know where we usually get sent for a backhaul from this area?