How bad is Job Hopping Really? Vent

Yea hes a truck driver. I actually talked to him on the phone yesterday and he just got another job 3 days ago lmao. Hes been doing this for years with no problems somehow

 

Job hopping is bad because it looks bad on you. You simply can't be entrusted as a solid asset. If you hopped 5 or 8 jobs in the last 10 years and still got hired, that means that they did not look for a solid prospective worker to invest in, but someone to patch up a hole, a cannon fodder.
Someone disposable.

 

I’m curious how much money is left on the table at the end of the year when someone changes jobs all the time.

 

Hog wash...

Ive had over 20 jobs the past 30 some years. My current (o-o) for 6 years now, so take that one away and maybe 25 over 34 or so years. Some for a day, some for a week, some for a month, some for a year.

Had this one for 6 (leased to Landstar), 3 jobs for 3 years each, 2 for 2 years, and a few for about a year.

The ONLY thing that matters is your safety record. My last chargeable accident was in Feb 86, last accident (non-chargeable) was Jun 98 and last ticket was in May of 04.

I tell them right up front, if they lie to me, I will leave. I will NOT tolerate b.s.

Theres only been 2 that wouldnt hire me because of my track record, and frankly I dont know that I would have wanted them anyway. 1 was delivering to McDonalds for Martin Brower and the other was Dayton Freight.

 

It's so frustrating when a company that I want to work with, and is very obviously trying to attract drivers to work with them, turns me down because they claim I have had too many jobs in x amount of time. Perfectly justifiable reasons don't matter, like for example my current company and the company I work for previously had awful equipment that was barely tolerable to drive not to mention safety concerns and other issues that I addressed with them repeatedly and they never effectively fixed. At best it might get a Band-Aid fix to get it back on the road only to have the same problems or even more problems stem from it within weeks or even days. I am not going to apologize for not wanting to work with a company like this.

A lot of these outfits pound out job postings all over the internet but they don't seem motivated to actually hire anyone and on top of that it seems like a lot of these places that do hire have the drivers end up leaving them for perfectly legitimate reasons often after a very short time working with that company.

I would be happy to work with the company and stick with them if I could actually find one that had their stuff together but instead the companies seem to give every driver every reason to look for greener pastures.

 

Martin Brower and Dayton Freight are solid jobs and don't have much turnover. It's not surprising they're going to cherry pick from applicants who don't job hop. You can make every excuse why this or that company sucks but the truth is that's trucking, deal with it, so most job changes are just a waste of time you're moving lateral to the same ol same ol. That's why job hopping bites you and better employers pass on an applicant because of it.