SafeStack mentoring and Driver Trainers. This is part of what is changing within the company. Peer to peer presentation. Hourly employees, drivers, getting involved in changing the company. So should we, should you at XCO just accept poorly loaded inbound trailers? Drivers have been frustrated for a long time that nothing ever changed and no one was held accountable for poor loading practices. Now change is here, mentoring will occur on the dock and accountability will be part of the day-to-day operations. So this is another scare tactic? Come see you to put a stop to an improved working environment? If we can't haul the freight delivering on-time, fast, and exception free, how will your organizing efforts improve the performance of your fellow XCO drivers? And safety... a driver trainer's job is to conduct re-training to address occurrences. Once again, these initiatives by your employer have only been created to address the organizing efforts in XCO? What pro-active efforts are you selling in regards to safety within your organizing campaign?
You have lost your focus on true north. You have slid down that slippery slope of fear mongering yourself. Focus on your wages, your benefits, your job security. Continue to sell common sense and leave the emotions to the keyboard masturbaters that are riding on your coat tails. As I have posted from day one of this, emotions get cards signed, common sense gets votes. Check the statistics, the majority want to work for a great company. We have left yesterday and it's methods to build toward the status of being the best in the business once again. But that means we all must perform at our best.
So what are you working toward? Being a great employee working for a great company and being properly compensated for your efforts? Or, will the success of your employment be measured primarily by the strength of your connection to the brotherhood and their success in negotiating your belief of fair and proper compensation? At the end of the day where does job performance fit into your vision?
Merdock, why did our wonderful managers decide to fix what wasn't broke?
I'm talking 25+, 20+, 15+, 10+ years ago.
The company/companies made plenty of money and then we get all of these micro-managing idiots come in and start changing crap that doesn't need to be changed.
WHY!! Why must we now keep trying to repair all of the f-ups that our "great, sincere, concerned, knowledgeable" full of sh!t managers keep screwing up?
It has gotten to the point to where I can really care less if this company survives or not!
I have 25+ years in and at least another 7-8 years before I became eligible to retire!
But I don't care anymore!
While I'm still employed here I will still give 100 % once I walk through that gate and punch in.
And I will do it better than 99 % of my fellow workers.
But I can honestly say, I hope this company goes out of business and leaves the dildo's we have running this abortion out of a job.
The freight that we haul will go somewhere and they will need drivers and dockworkers and mechanics and CSR's.
And those companies will be hiring former Con-way employees because we are some of the best in the industry hands-down.
But our leadership (term used lightly) is horrible.
Our Board of Directors are horrible.
And it will be them that forces this once great company to close-up!
I can go to sleep every night knowing that I gave my best and did not intentionally try to screw over or step on the toes of my fellow workers.
Like some have said about the demise of our pension, "you should have planned better or had a back-up plan."
It is those same people, and the rest of us too, you better have a back-up plan. Because Con-way will not exist much longer with the direction we're headed!
