Here I sit it's 3:00am I was told Friday to be at work at 2:30am.
I get to work at 2:30am all to find out the route that I was supposed to go out on was switched around and I was switched around to work with another driver (I started last week at a new company.) So far I do like the new line of work and it is a step up from where I was.
However this is kind of crappy, to be told oh yeah be in at 2:30am then when you get there uhh you were moved to work on a different route and it starts at some unknown time. Well what can I do I wasn't going to sit by my self at the office for 1.5-2 hours or maybe longer so I went home I only live 15 minutes away from my new job. However what I should have said was "If I have to leave I'm not coming back in."
The driver who I was supposed to go with said to me "They didn't tell you anything did they?"
I said "No" He went "I just learned it when I went to check voice mail right now."
He goes "I'm almost half tempted to take you with me. This is some real crap."
The reason these companies can't keep drivers is because management doesn't care, accountability through communication is nothing management is interested in especially at my old job those people were the absolute worst when it came to communication there were times when I would get more satisfaction out of talking to the wall then my bosses. In fact I think at times the wall would have made a better boss.
Here my new job, I do like it better and while this kind of sucks, big picture wise it's just a glitch. Sooner then later I'll be on my own and none of it will matter so I'm not that upset, but really these people in management at these companies need to be held accountable until these people in management are held accountable driver retention will be through the roof and places will be revolving doors and you know what the people who are in charge of making sure the companies best interests are taken care of (management) are really the ones who are hurting the companies the most.
I mean all these companies have money tied up in training people and this that and the other and then they tick the people off and they leave, well that didn't really accomplish a thing and it can be funneled back to a bad decision that was made by management.
It's like that in a lot of places though heck it's been the Cleveland Brown's football team problem for along time the foot ball team was miss managed at the top of the food chain for a long time and still is and it's all been bad.
You know you always hear "We can't find anyone to work, nobody wants to work." Yes and no. Sure there are tons of lazy people out there, however there are a lot of people though who are not lazy who will work, the problem is though these places are so miss managed that even the hardest workers get turned off and say forget it I'm out. The whole thing is way to one sided and really the bottom line is it's not what there telling you it's what there not telling you that's where you have to watch out. Like I said I don't really care that much everyone makes mistakes, however sometimes though bad practices keep on being repeated and it
no change takes place and you know I'm done waiting on the world to change I know that me alone I don't have a ton of weight that I pull so I'm more of a if I don't like it then I guess I'll quit type person.
I get to work at 2:30am all to find out the route that I was supposed to go out on was switched around and I was switched around to work with another driver (I started last week at a new company.) So far I do like the new line of work and it is a step up from where I was.
However this is kind of crappy, to be told oh yeah be in at 2:30am then when you get there uhh you were moved to work on a different route and it starts at some unknown time. Well what can I do I wasn't going to sit by my self at the office for 1.5-2 hours or maybe longer so I went home I only live 15 minutes away from my new job. However what I should have said was "If I have to leave I'm not coming back in."
The driver who I was supposed to go with said to me "They didn't tell you anything did they?"
I said "No" He went "I just learned it when I went to check voice mail right now."
He goes "I'm almost half tempted to take you with me. This is some real crap."
The reason these companies can't keep drivers is because management doesn't care, accountability through communication is nothing management is interested in especially at my old job those people were the absolute worst when it came to communication there were times when I would get more satisfaction out of talking to the wall then my bosses. In fact I think at times the wall would have made a better boss.
Here my new job, I do like it better and while this kind of sucks, big picture wise it's just a glitch. Sooner then later I'll be on my own and none of it will matter so I'm not that upset, but really these people in management at these companies need to be held accountable until these people in management are held accountable driver retention will be through the roof and places will be revolving doors and you know what the people who are in charge of making sure the companies best interests are taken care of (management) are really the ones who are hurting the companies the most.
I mean all these companies have money tied up in training people and this that and the other and then they tick the people off and they leave, well that didn't really accomplish a thing and it can be funneled back to a bad decision that was made by management.
It's like that in a lot of places though heck it's been the Cleveland Brown's football team problem for along time the foot ball team was miss managed at the top of the food chain for a long time and still is and it's all been bad.
You know you always hear "We can't find anyone to work, nobody wants to work." Yes and no. Sure there are tons of lazy people out there, however there are a lot of people though who are not lazy who will work, the problem is though these places are so miss managed that even the hardest workers get turned off and say forget it I'm out. The whole thing is way to one sided and really the bottom line is it's not what there telling you it's what there not telling you that's where you have to watch out. Like I said I don't really care that much everyone makes mistakes, however sometimes though bad practices keep on being repeated and it
no change takes place and you know I'm done waiting on the world to change I know that me alone I don't have a ton of weight that I pull so I'm more of a if I don't like it then I guess I'll quit type person.