An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

He has waited and seen. It was two months ago this chapter of the saga started.

SSB and I have very different gestualts and I disagree with the way he handles a lot of things. Two months ago I was of the opinon he should wait and see, and everything he and Kyle have posted make it look like SPD is being subsumed into Wylie, thus it's time to figure out if he's going to exit stage left or right.

 

Well agree to disagree. I stand by my comment of using your company as a means to an end, just as they use you for. Do a good job, do a safe job, but at the end of the day a place of business is not a home, not a community, not a religious center, not a charity, it's a means to an end for both parties. Nothing personal, just business. It is what it is.

 

Well if I'm wrong (which I could be, I never claimed to be an Einstein) and he is past the point of wait and see, then I agree 100% with you. He needs to find an exit plan and not drag this thing out like he did with Shaffer. Time to stop the complaining and figure out whether he's going to exit stage left or right, as you said.

Very sensible posts Gentleroger, I enjoy seeing your perspectives on this forum.

 

I've belonged to 3 different unions in my working days. All of them were pretty much the same. Show up every day, do your job, file no grievances, pay your dues, and we'll get along just fine. File a grievance? Suddenly the union attitude changes.....

 

Showing up every day, and doing your best? Sure, that's what I signed up for. Staying late for free? Not going to happen. Cancelling a vacation? One I planned in advance, and the company knew about? Again, no. There is give and take on both sides.

 

So you're saying you're not going to both fill in for me tomorrow and do your own work? You disloyal SOB. Next thing you're going to tell me is you haven't baked an apple pie for me to eat while you're doing my work. These millennial kids, I tell ya, they don't know what work is.

 

So on a less Debby downer note, I delivered this truck to a 1400 dollar a night hotel in San Diego. I call it a grown up play date with all of his alternative fuel friends. Due to some bad directions I got to back almost two miles down a winding hilly road that surrounds the golf corse. That was fun.
Monday I’ll pick up a load of these big crates heading to Wichita. Then my truck is probably going to the dealer, 571,000 miles and it’s putting fuel in the coolant. Hopefully there is a spare truck I can jump into. If it’s a manual, with somewhat low miles, and doesn’t have collision mitigation I may try to move into it.
Might sound a bit pretentious but I won’t drive a basic freight truck for very long. I hear we are getting all silver mid roofs with ten speed autos and 450 hp paccar motors. All the cattle prods (coillison mitigation) one could ever want! #### that, I have 10 years clean experience, never had a claim or accident in close to a million miles here. I’m not going to drive a truck that sounds like a rolling arcade inside.

 

Frankly, to many of the new breed of drivers act, like their crap don’t stink… They drive through parking lots like it’s a raceway they don’t turn around and have radios in their trucks and don’t communicate any issues going on down the highway because they’re more concerned with what’s going on the phone…
The attitude by many of these new breed of drivers is pathetic… Like the prime driver for instance, at the loves in Brigham city Utah parks on the fuel line where the fuel drop is in the fuel driver can’t get to the fuel drops because prime is blocking it & he’s page to half a dozen times to move it, and when the love’s driver comes up to the cab and tells him he needs to move get an attitude and starts accelerating across the parking lot because he’s mad because he got told to move… I really hate to see what this industry is going to be like within the next 20 years