Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I was working late once with a supervisor.

supervisor was a total jerk. It was raining, and cold outside. It was a late Friday night.

He went to start his car, and the battery was dead. He asked him I had jumper cables, and I said no.

I drove a beater 30 year old Honda civic. I had a jump box in the trunk. I went home while he was scratching his head in the rain on a Friday.

I’ll probably go to hell for that one, but I’m still proud of ruining that jerks weekend.

 

It was a paving crew in the South. If someone will show up to work 15-16 hours a day, 6 days a week, most of the time, you keep them. Especially if they have a CDL and can pass a piss test. We had many felons, drug court guys, halfway house psychos, methheads, etc. The state/county jails supplied half our labor. 7.25/hr to operate an asphalt lute over 300 degree hot mix when it is 95 degrees and 90% humidity is not conducive to getting good workers. There's a reason I left the godforsaken #### hole known as the South. Even when I had a CDL the most I made down there was like 15 bucks an hour with no OT. I know Covid has changed the place a lot but still. #### the South.

 

Yeah, I thanked his post until I read that part LOL

 

Working for a company owned and operated out of North Dakota when I started, to now being operated out of Alabama, there's definitely been a slide in labor relations and workplace quality, equipment, staffing, etc.

Probably a coincidence

 

So I just delivered to a meat processor/packer for the first time.

I guess USDA inspected doesn’t mean much…

The standards in which we handle our food should be illegal. I saw cleaner butchers in Mexico…

 

Delivering to the back door of restaurants will ruin them for you too

 

I was about to say the same thing. 15 years in food service will ruin you. A new guy asked which is the best Chinese restaurant in town all of our answers "one we dont deliver too". Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

 

Worked in food service industry for 7 years. That's been over 20 years ago and their still restaurants I won't eat at. If you see Sysco, US Foods, PFG delivering some place you ask them if they would eat in there .... that should give to a clue if its clean.

 

I ate at one Chinese buffet a few years before I started running a handcart and never set foot in one as customer from that day forward. Nope, not doing it.