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

It would make me feel a little better knowing that there were a few less bucks profit in their bank account. I'm guessing, but I'm pretty sure a certain member of management in Fargo gets a warm swelling in his boxers every time he can shave a driver's gross pay by a few bucks.

 

I read the email...but to exit now, we have to go in and out from the skid steer side of the building, so the "one way" around the building they told us to follow is no longer possible.

As for the sitting you do, that's the nature of the OD work you do... that's why I stopped doing it. The extra I was making for the larger freight didn't make up for the lack of productivity. General freight shouldn't have to sit during the week if the planner did his job, but once again, he dropped the ball.

And since the payroll cutoff date is on a Sunday, that means that I will most likely have until Friday the 13th to pick up and deliver something. And since I am delivering an elevator Monday morning in BFE Colorado, I doubt we have anything nearby, so that means Monday is a travel day to wherever, and Tuesday will be a load day, if they can find something, which based on previous experiences, they won't start looking until I am empty, so that means getting a dispatch on Tuesday or Wednesday...so that means 2.5 - 3 days to get loaded and turn miles, so I doubt I get anything worthwhile that'll deliver by Friday. I had 2400 miles by the 3rd, with the trip I am taking to Colorado will put me a few over 4000, and layover pay wont make up for the lost days. As hard as I ran, I should have had at least 2000 more miles than that... that's over $1300, layover won't come close to that. This is the paycheck for when I am going home where I have to get my physical, dental work and eye exam, so that will take a large chunk, if not all of that check for those expenses, and hometime means a real crappy check the following pay period. So I just spent 3 months away from home "almost" getting my gross for this year within a few thousand of where it was this time last year, and to stop the monthly drain on my savings...now, with 2 crappy checks in a row, I will be right back to where I was 3 months ago, so I stayed out extra for nothing...this month started out great where I could have been close to what they want for a minimum, even with hometime. But now, with this short 3 day load, I will be lucky to see 6000 miles for the month, so that negates all the hard, ball busting I did for the last 11 weeks. So, what's the point of running my dick into the dirt, making the company money and neglecting my home life, if it doesn't benefit me and my family? Since they dropped the daily rate, this company has become just like every other company out there...there is nothing that makes them any better. So I guess their company ad slogan to attract drivers should be "looking to work for an above average company, well, don't come here, we're just like everyone else...nothing to see here but the same b.s. you get everywhere else...we strive for mediocrity". I came here to make better money with a better company. Right now I am making about what the average dry van driver makes, with a company that strives to be just like every other cookie cutter company out there. They don't strive to be better, they strive to be average.

These recent few days have changed the way I will do business the rest of my days here. From now on, I am a mercenary...when someone asked me to help out, my 1st question is "what's in it for me?". Want me to fix your junk $50/hr, with a 1/2 hr minimum charge. Don't want to pay me...hire a $100+/hr shop to fix it. From now on, I won't look out for the company, won't go out of my way to make the company image better while I struggle. I am a employee, not a member of the family. As an employee, I get paid to work here. If I do something, I get paid, no more volunteer work.

 

It's what I have long referred to as frog soup...it's slow motion morphing. It used to be you walk into corporate and talk to people, it was a friendly, layed back, low stress environment. Now a lot of people are walking on the "who's next to be excused" eggshells. That's how Wylie offices are. They're high stress inducing overlords just waiting for their next victim.