Job Hopping Myths

There are two words. "At Will" employment.

As long those two words stand while any driver old or new gets canned for scraping a pole... then you will have job hopping.

Ive had in excess of 50 jobs in my life time. Most of them progressively improving on one thing or another. For example. No power steering to power steering, then add air ride then improve mileage pay etc. Every job had something good and something bad. Really bad ones I don't stay around I move on.

As long there is 50 drivers sitting in orientation each week to replace anyone in a fleet at a moment's notice for the smallest and frivilous preventables this situation will continue. It will worsen the industry as immigrants take hold. If I was still holding my decades of experience I would require a pay high enough per mile for which a company can get rid of me and put 3 immigrants in three trucks and make hopefully three times the revenue for the same cost of payroll. Things change.

At some point in the future sometime your life times, the young ones robots will be taxed as citizens and all of us will be provided a basic income from those taxes. Including autonomous trucks. Jobs? Forget it. Not unless you are part of something critical for the Nation in some way.

 

This year will be my 10th. year at my job as a retail clerk, (since 4/17/2007). I thank the good Lord upstairs for this full time job with benefits. I do get overtime from time to time. I currently earn $10.37 an hour.

This year will be my 43rd. year of being in the workforce, (since 1974). I am currently 60 years old, will be 61 this year. I have had a total of 9 jobs. My current job is my 9th. job.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I have been called a job hopper. When applying for a job, many potential employers want a potential employee who has shown "loyalty" by being in ONE job for as many years as possible.

Also, BELIEVE IT NOT, I have had just the reverse happen to me, for being in a low paying job for "too many years". Many potential employers see that as a sign of either having no initiative or being outright lazy. Sometimes they see this as "something being very wrong with you".

The bottom line is this: you are darned if you and darned if you don't.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Job hopper and proud of it!

Lie to me about my PRE-AGREED to hometime, I'm gone.

Lie to me about PRE-AGREED to pay, I'm gone.

Refuse to COMMUNICATE with me, I'm gone.

I'm a good driver. I've got close to twenty years in this industry in various roles. I work to be a strong asset to the carrier I'm currently with. I present myself and represent my carrier as a professional, and work hard every day. My record isn't perfect, but I have NEVER had a problem landing the job I applied for. And I've been around long enough to develop a reputation above and beyond some BS generic "DAC" report. My "career" is more than secure enough to survive and even thrive as I work my way into a carrier that will demonstrate the same level of loyalty to me that I offer to them.

Three jobs last year, two thus far this year. Hopefully I'm done filling out applications cause that's just a PITA.

 

LMAO, the downside of job hopping? Filling out 10 years of employment.

 

Did you ever notice the drivers that do the job hopping keep getting the same type of jobs.Are they really quitting from a bad career and just taking the same job with a different color truck

 

There is some truth to this, but it varies by situation. Right now I'm running for a small operation where originally I was home weekly and turning 2800-3000 miles, now they want me out 2-3 weeks and I turn 2500. Before this I worked grocery division for McLane Western. McLane was hard work, and then they decided they needed to distribute load packages more "fairly", as a result my partner and I were expected to do the same work for about 500 less per week.
Before that was oil field (not as a driver, but cement pressure pumping), unfortunately that took a downhill slide when Halliburton tried to take over a Baker Hughes.

With that being said, I'm in the process of hopping back into the oil field. My company isn't terrible, if I wanted to stay out long periods of time. However, with myour experience I can make 2x as much, and be home almost every night and a 7 on 3 off schedule.

 

Glad to see I'm not the only job hopper on these here boards. Thing is, other than not getting into Ashley Furniture, I've never had a problem finding a new one. One of those reasons, as previously stated, is that I have a clean MVR and PSP.

 

All companies will change from time to time in ways they operate even companies with the best reputations .I don't buy in to some and the point your trying to make that as soon as you started everything changed.In whole your not guaranteed anything from any company there are even some that offer guarantees pay but that same company can decide to stop pay guarantees tomorrow.Sometimes it's better to stick it out with a company from my experience instead off blaming everything on a company.Its like a guy I knew at one time who had been married 6 times and blamed all the ex wives for them being no good when he needed to look at himself.

 

Amen !...I don't think drivers quit because it's a great place to work ...most quit because they were lied to or treated poorly and I don't tolerate it either.

 

I had 5 jobs in my first year as a driver. Got fired from 2 of them. Didn't wreck anything. Last three jobs have been 1.5 yrs, 3 yrs, and have been at my current employer for 7 months. They fired me during my first year. Funny how things work out.