You technically are a number big company or small. That's because once you quit, you're an afterthought and it's on to the next arse to fill that seat.
Overcoming being just a number to companies
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A few times I have run into major issues with a shipper and everything went to pot. The higher ups were called in, people that I never even talked to had my back because they new/remembered my number and what kind of job I did. I was a number, but not "just another number".
It isn't about bieng a number, it's about not trying/thinking to be just a another number.x1Heavy and bryan21384 Thank this. -
You’ll always be a number and any opinions or ideas you feel you need to express to management will be ignored
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The company I work for know drivers by name and not the truck. The dispatch knows me by name, owner son knows me by name, The managers at the fleet knows me by name also. Only time when they ask me what truck number I in is when I’m the dispatch office
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Standing outside looking at all the equipment one day, old guy says, "All this will be here long after you're gone."
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Numbers are just easier to manage than names when the person imediately above you is managing 200 trucks. Just because you are a number doesn't mean you can't make a name for yourself.
I was lucky when I worked for a mega and didn't have someone trying to micro manage me all the time. I was left alone for months at a time without speaking directly to my "dispatcher". When I did need to call about something they knew my reutation without even needing to put in the number and look it up. They knew me. They didn't know me personally, but they knew what I did, without even looking up the number.
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