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

The crazy thing is, on Daseke's website, Wylie is considered a specialized company like us, but Lonestar, who hauls a lot of OS/OD isn't. Honestly, we're a closer fit to Lonestar than Wylie, so who knows why they grouped us in with those people. I think SPD 2.0 will still haul specialized and OS/OD because it is part of the aerospace side of our customer base, and that's where a considerable amount of our revenue is being generated.

This goes beyond my usual pattern of bitterness. I mean, when someone like @kylefitzy who is less likely to jump to the dark side is starting to have doubts about a company's future, there is something to it.

 

Can’t blame you for being concerned over these changes. It’s a shame when this happens to good people and the higher ups aren’t smart enough to leave well enough alone. Come in with their ideas and put the screws to everyone.

 

From my understanding, your concerns are:

1. The Director of Operations and his wife (the recruiting manager) are no longer with the company....the office is starting to thin out slowly...

2. Something about the name change and new logos concerns you

Correct?

This whole post is you being upset that it's not your parents generation anymore. I get it. You're around my parents age and you saw the privilege of employees in your parents generation being able to work at a single company, without taking a single entrepreneurial risk by starting their own business and without having to get a post high school education, who could simply show up at a job, punch in a 40 hour work week for 30 years, live a middle class lifestyle with a wife and 4+ kids, many times without the wife even working or just working part time. Companies at least made an effort to put on a show of actually caring about their employees and rewarding hard work and effort.

Those days are long gone.

Correct. The corporate big wig who fired the office people that you like was nothing personal. It was just business to him. And in return you need to be ready to dismiss any company that you work for without it bothering you in the least either.

You don't. The answer to your statement is that you do not be loyal and dedicated to any company you work for. They are not your friends or family. It's business. There is no more work 30 years and get the golden watch and retirement cake going away party on your 30 year anniversary.

You use a company as a means to an end, just like your company uses you as means to an end. Nothing more. Nothing less. You don't do a bad job or an unsafe job, but you don't kill yourself to go above and beyond either. I am so glad I figured that out at a young age, I have no doubt that it has and will continue to ADD years to my life by avoiding the stress of viewing the company as anything more than a means to an end.

I wouldn't be concerned about changes going on at the corporate level or with the office people, nor would I be concerned about logos or naming issues. I would just be concerend with if your actual day to day job and yearly salary is being impacted by any of this. Until that starts happening, why even worry about something that you have no control over?

And if you're really that concerned about two office people leaving the company and about the companies logo/name changes (which I don't think you should be), then just do a little research and have your backup plans ready to go. Then, don't give the state of affairs within your company a second thought until it actually starts to negatively impact you in your day to day job duties.

 

Some of these upper management people literally think they’re smart, but many of them not all but many literally screw up everything they touch… Because they think they’re smarter than everybody on earth and like you stated it’s the opposite they’re not that smart

 

Judge Horace Wood, 1877. That's what it is all about.

 

I think all of their concerns are legit.Everything as they kwow about this company will be gone soon.

 

Why? Because two people in management have left and because of possible name/logo changes?

What specifically has happened right now that has an actual impact on any of their drivers day to day operational duties, or to any of the drivers bottom line/gross salary?

Because from what I'm seeing it's all speculation at this point.

 

Maybe if you had any experience in this business it would be a little clearer to you what’s happening. Don’t think you’re smarter than everyone.

 

I think he speaks from experience he’s dealt with Wiley before that with that doing this exact same garbage…

 

ok