Hello From JB Hunt

Thankfully, it looks like this person is gone, but it's such a joke...I know all about jb & the lies just never seem to stop...rofl!

 

I saw an ad from TOP GUN Trucking. Very Lovely recruiter. So accommodating. Something just seemed a little too familiar. I joked with my boyfriend that maybe they were CR in disguise. Nope, but guess who??? Good old JB... So, beware...

We were joking that it must be jbgun or tophunt!

Gotta give them points for creativity...

 

To me, this company is known as JoBHunt. You get a job with 'em this morning, and you're looking for another job tomorrow morning. Or even tonight.

Isn't there an actual company out there called Top Gun? I remember seeing this outfit's ads in the 'zines.

 

Top Gun... So We Thought... It appears to be a company maybe---but when we talked to the recruiter, he had jobs with good old jb... He didn't tell us that's who it was, however... It wasn't until the orientation paperwork came, and it said jbhunt on it, that we were made aware. Oy!. When we called the guy back and confronted him, he seemed confused when we didn't want to take the position. He was also recruiting for some other positions too, though... with other companies--just not what we wanted.

So beware.. We have been there. Been baited, been switched...

 

UPDATE! SO LONG 615 JB HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE!

I start with Union Pacific January 3rd! out of VAN BUREN AR!!!

USA Truck Drivers beware, THE TRAIN'S COMIN!!!!

So from now until Jan 3, I'm still at JBHT.

 

Well, you did it. Congratulations.

Now just keep your nose clean and be a great worker at JobHunt all your remaining days.

What I'm really saying is "See what kind of dark secrets you can find out from being an insider." Not that they'd trust you, but if and when you dig up things, post it here.

 

The Bait and Switch must work well at JobHunt. They sure pull that trick enough there, don't they?.

 

Most of the time, the Bait and Switch isn't intentional.

For the sake of the argument, Let's say I've recruited someone into a local intermodal run out of wherever. He decides his orientation date will be 2 weeks from now. ok. We get his v-release, check his background, and he's good. While we wait for orientation time to come around, in those 2 weeks, that local could get transfers/new hires enough to close it to where we have to tell those drivers that are scheduled (like my recruit) that the position is filled and we have to either find them something else or drop them off the roster of orientation. Here's where the interesting part is:

at least 70% of the recruiters (myself included) have heart enough to call up said driver and say that the position did fill and that we need to find him something else. The other recruiters do this: "Yea, we still have you coming in for the Local intermodal on *date here*, you ready for it?". I've spoken to some of these recruiters before who tell me "Well, I hope he goes OTR so i can get some commission." wow. That's all I have to say.

One of the reasons i'm getting out of this recruiting gig is right there- Because its more or less commission-based and that you have to keep a fairly high hiring average to stay on (1.5 per week or 3 every 2 weeks)

 

There was a Top Gun out of Clarksville IN but I don't know if they still around.