What a joke!

[nncnwydude]

I've been with this company for almost 2 years now. I'm still on the flex board, called in this morning and was told to call back at 11:30. Just called back. They don't want me to come in 'til 15:00. What a frickin' joke. I'll be lucky to get enough hours today to warrant a lunch. Not even worth my time to put my uniform on and go in.

[Large&InCharge]

I feel ur pain. I have been here for over 4 plus years now, I am also on the flex board. However, I am on the PM flex, i go in at 4 or 5 work the outbound dock and if I am lucky I get a short linehaul run, if not, I go home after 4 or 5 hrs. At my barn, there are 3 guys above me on the flex, and they have to call every day, there times vary just like yours. Sometimes there are 2 or 3 of us that start at 4 just to work the dock.

[CenturyClass]

Haha join the club guys..I go in at 5 everyday to work outbound for like 5 hrs. Hey nnc is there a FAC closeby or do you work @ one?

[nncnwydude]

Haha join the club guys..I go in at 5 everyday to work outbound for like 5 hrs. Hey nnc is there a FAC closeby or do you work @ one?

There's an FAC 37 miles away, but I can't afford to drive down there at night and work 'cause it might screw the rest of my week up. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

[highspeeds]

There's an FAC 37 miles away, but I can't afford to drive down there at night and work 'cause it might screw the rest of my week up. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

You are lucky to be working at all. My first year here they called me in and told I was economically terminated. Three weeks before Christmas. Didn't get back to work until the last week of April. The phone call and odd hours ain't that bad.

[CenturyClass]

You are lucky to be working at all. My first year here they called me in and told I was economically terminated. Three weeks before Christmas. Didn't get back to work until the last week of April. The phone call and odd hours ain't that bad.

that is no life to lead. You can do absolutely nothing else with your life. You cant find another part time job, you cannot go to school. You are at the mercy of con-way. That is no way to live your life. Absolutely assinine if you ask me

[oldtimer50]

We have all been there at one time or another. Its called paying your dues or s##it rolles down hill. It will get better with time.

[Bigstrapper530]

I was the low man for 2 1/2 years at a class 6 svc. center and worked days and nights, weekends whatever needed to be done. Did every junk run, every crappy delivery and finally got a full time FAC run. Pay your dues, it's the Con-way.

[nncnwydude]

We have all been there at one time or another. Its called paying your dues or s##it rolles down hill. It will get better with time.

So how long is one supposed to eat **** and grin? Like I said, I've been here going on 2 years. Seems a little stacked against the lower guys (and I've got 11 underneath me too) when we still have guys in January and February getting o/t (and this is in the south mind you so they're getting over 50 hrs) and we're struggling to get 40. The supervisors could manage it a little better and send those guys home a little earlier and bring us in earlier to cover what they're doing in later pickups and swaps, but they don't want to. All they see is what's right in front of them RIGHT NOW and they send the next guy that comes back from his peddle run for a swap, no matter what time he came in that day. All they care about is getting all that freight back asap so they can get l/h out early. Makes their blessed numbers look good.

[nncnwydude]

I was the low man for 2 1/2 years at a class 6 svc. center and worked days and nights, weekends whatever needed to be done. Did every junk run, every crappy delivery and finally got a full time FAC run. Pay your dues, it's the Con-way.

I volunteer for everything I can. I sign up for weekend l/h runs practically every weekend. We generally don't have any, but if we do, they go in order of seniority, and usually there's about 4-5 guys that are ahead of me that get more hours than me that sign up as well. So in the rare occasion we get something on the weekend, they call them first. It's not that I'm not making myself available, there's just lots of guys with lots of seniority that get the gravy all the time. I guess if I'm patient and wait another 10-15 years I might get there eventually.