Does how you're paid affect how you work?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by tinytim, Mar 20, 2015.

Does how you're paid affect how you work?

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    No

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  1. Mar 21, 2015 #51
    S.V.Buyck

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    I'm paid by hour and it doesn't affect my performance. What does affect my performance is gaining the respect of my fellow co workers. I don't want to look at annual truck gross list and be near bottom. For example last week we had 5 trucks on a concrete out job and only myself and one other ran seven loads. I didn't want to be 6 load guy.
     
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  3. Mar 21, 2015 #52
    okiedokie

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    Driving & laboring is like working 2 jobs for the price of one. I worked those kind of driving jobs in the early part of my career. So yes exp. does pay right along with a clean driving record and a good rep. Many years of networking doesn't hurt.
     
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  4. Mar 21, 2015 #53
    MACK E-6

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    Here in the LTL sector, even though we're hourly some of us actually do care about getting our work done so we can get home.

    Problem is, this comes with a price. Somebody has to pick up the slack of the clock millers. So the reward for the guys that work, for getting their work done in a timely manner, is more work.:rolleyes:
     
    MACK E-6, Mar 21, 2015
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  5. Mar 22, 2015 #54
    Y2K

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    Funny how that works lol.
     
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  7. Mar 22, 2015 #55
    RetiredUSN

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    Ditto......If a person agrees to take a job for a agreed upon amount of pay, he/she should buck up and do the job the way it was outlined.
     
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  8. Mar 22, 2015 #56
    pattyj

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    What's so sad about the pay here and doing 2 jobs for the price of one,these employers pay around 12.00 an hr.Then they wonder why they cant find a driver.
     
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  9. Mar 22, 2015 #57
    MACK E-6

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    And don't forget the favoritism. Every company has their drivers who, as soon as they whine, have an uncanny way of making dispatchers snap to attention as if they were standing before R. Lee Ermey himself.
     
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  10. Mar 22, 2015 #58
    okiedokie

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    The same old jobs on Craigslist, week after week. You pay peanuts you get monkeys. You think they would figure it out. Good people trying to make a living and less than desirable co. taking advantage of it.
     
    okiedokie, Mar 22, 2015
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  11. Mar 22, 2015 #59
    zaroba

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    I agree AND disagree.

    A warehouse I worked at long ago let me go when a major customer pulled out.

    I started working at walmart. I worked as hard as I could for several years until the slackers that I made look bad who had their noses up the bosses you-know-whats finally got their way and management attitude towards me started going south. Walmart doesn't pay much and I was getting the wrong end of the stick so after 4 years their, yes, I *did* jump ship when a better paying job came along.

    I went to amazon, where I currently am employed. I started there about 4.5 years ago. You hit the hourly salary cap after 3.5 years. So now what?
     
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