Before complaining about a company

CondoCruiser
Your quote of “Most companies I know, you are an expendable commodity that can be replaced and the bottom line is profit” is the truth for all companies except for non profits. Whether trucking or turnips, French fries or Ferraris. Why is a company in business? To make a profit, to return investment and absolutely nothing else. If something or someone that is not a part of the fixed overhead is not producing over its cost, it is totally worthless to the company. Why do drivers leave jobs? Probably the main reason is to make more money, to get a better return on their investment of time. If anyone out there thinks a business is started just to provide jobs and benefits without enhancing the wealth of the investors, they are terribly un-informed.

 

Rollin Home
Hindsight is 20/20. Yes I made mistakes, everyone does. I also provided about forty families an income for twenty years. We did not close for lack of work, but lack of return on investment.When we sold off the assets, all of our staff was informed of closing three weeks prior. Everyone was paid in full, including our vendors. We decided to close for it was either grow the business with borrowed money, which was too much risk or discontinue. Part of the deal was that all of our employees were given jobs by the company that purchased the equipment. The money I loaned a few people was in an emergency situation for their families when they were out of town. Yes it was a mistake, but again hindsight is 20/20. My last comment for your comment is:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt