it should be done this way to be fair for everyone. if barn is slow, ask from the top if they want to use vac day or pto day, and move down the senority list, and if no1 bites on it then from the bottom up tell them to stay home, now that is fair, i dont care what anyone says, but yet these t.m's these days think since they sit in the big chair they can make up their rules when it suits them best, they are just a little smudge of chalk on a huge chalk filled blackboard, thats y they dont last more then 3 yrs at the most, cuz after about a year the big wigs realize who is great and who is a bust. I have been here 5yrs, and the guy who hired me is still here, and he knows the freight business. The first thing he told me when he hired me is this "this is a place of business, I am not here to make friends, yes we can laugh and joke but the work has to be done, so if you are not cutting it, its not personal when I have to let you go" If more managers would be up front with their agenda, and not tell us what we want to hear or make up things as we go along, or say something just to get under our skin, or just to get us out of his office cuz we are bothering him from getting to a higher level in angry birds. we are all grown men and women here, not children, we demand respect, and damit we should get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!