Fired over not picking up my phone

I get a call on Sunday from the newbie load planner's helper telling me my loads for Monday. F yes I will spend 27 seconds on my phone, with free unlimited data, to confirm what he told me for appt times is correct, to continue my 100% on time rating.

As opposed to driving over to the truck, starting it, waiting 5 or more minutes for the qualcom to boot and some more time for the trips to download. That is close to a half hour of my day off...

e.g.
the time another was to deliver "a Dolly Motto load at 4am." Which was actually Del Monte'
or the time a driver was told "deliver to Atlantis at 8am!"

Mikeeee

 

Exactly!

Mikeeee

 

Why don't you go for work for ABF? Even though the benefits out of local 401 totally suck if you ever decided to relocate to Carlisle Pennsylvania the benefits are much better down that way. Even Old Dominion would be a decent company to work for Out of Pittston.

 

E-Mail will not work? Seems the sender can tag the E-Mail so a "read" reply is send back to them. This way you have all the info in writing and no confusion over the phone.

 

Sounds like a Bolus driver in the making. Really? In this day and age to answer the phone for work is unacceptable?

Did you just lose the job out of Jessup?

 

I'm not saying one way or the other.

But. I want to know why its so hard for this generation to answer the phone? Pick up the #### phone already, wait, its already in your hand. Answer the phone like an adult.

 

Wasn't Western Express was it?

 

If it's Family Dollar, I'd run don't walk away from ole' Johnnie Bryan Hunt. Unless you like backing a 53' trailer into strip malls in da hood and lumping floor-to-ceiling freight onto rollers. If you ask me, that'd be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. But if it's PPG or intermodal, it might be a square deal.

 

Only if the truck wasn't equipped with it's own form of communication, (qualcom, etc)

or if it was a company issued phone.

 

I could kill one of the office workers with my phone and my company wouldn't fire me , but when they want to cut some dead weight they will use any excuse.