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Songremainsthesame

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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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
CenturyClass said:
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?
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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.
 
nncnwydude said:
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.
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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.
 
highspeeds said:
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.
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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
oldtimer50 said:
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.
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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.
 
Bigstrapper530 said:
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.
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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.
 
CenturyClass said:
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
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Bigstrapper530 said:
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.
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There are always other avenues....

Just depends on how much crap you are willing to eat to get there.

The Con-Way methodology is flawed...has been for a long time.

This flex-board/five years to top pay stupidity are leftovers from the Jerry D. nonsense back when the company was young.

J.D. wanted to run a 'lean and mean' organization on the rise to being the best.

Those days are long gone.

But alas...the Palace still insists on banging the employees with a long outdated practice that benefits only those in executive suite. No company other than this one has a five year plan...

Everyone else is on a three year plan...

SICE...remember you are the fifth star!!!!!

Rat
 
oldtimer50 said:
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.
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While there is some truth to this statement, the economy is not the same as it was 10-15 years ago. had a little bit more job security and a future and say you quit your job, you could find another one relatively easy. That is not the case today, completely different view..kinda like economic ground zero.
Its tougher and tougher these days to make ends meet
 
CenturyClass said:
While there is some truth to this statement, the economy is not the same as it was 10-15 years ago. had a little bit more job security and a future and say you quit your job, you could find another one relatively easy. That is not the case today, completely different view..kinda like economic ground zero.
Its tougher and tougher these days to make ends meet
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Plenty of driving jobs with just about any company you want in Columbus, Ohio.

Had another quit yesdterday. Brought in his uni's and said "Nice working for you. See ya later."
 
2 yrs on the flex try 6 my friend im going for the record,everytime somebody quits retires or gets fired they eliminate a bid.i may never get a start time .i am fortunate enough to work plenty of hours but 6 yrs waiting by the phone really gets old,payin the dues.i like where i work and like what i do and finding 23.55 per hour in my area aint gonna happen so i just grin and bear it.eventually i will get the ever elusive start time.
 
turbo blue 55 said:
2 yrs on the flex try 6 my friend im going for the record,everytime somebody quits retires or gets fired they eliminate a bid.i may never get a start time .i am fortunate enough to work plenty of hours but 6 yrs waiting by the phone really gets old,payin the dues.i like where i work and like what i do and finding 23.55 per hour in my area aint gonna happen so i just grin and bear it.eventually i will get the ever elusive start time.
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You are a better man than me, 6 yrs of calling everyday is just really riduculous. Good grief
 
What I am sick of is having another terminal coming thru and picking our 2 loads, while one of us sits home. THen having another terminal come thru in the morning to drop 2 loads and go back on empties...
 
Sounds a lot like Carhaul....Feast or famine..Back in the old days ..when the plants shut down....layoffs were on the way....Seniority was earned ....Everyone went through sometimes 20 years of lay offs and sitting by the phone until they could work year 'round...The problem with being a Teamster carhauler was that companies wouldn't hire you if you were a Teamster carhauler on lay off. ' Cause they knew the minute you were recalled ...you were gone because carhaul paid twice what most other trucking jobs paid...Of course the economy always controlled how good business was....and right now the economy sucks....We desparately need more manufacturing in America....That's what fuels the freight business
 
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