The headline read correctly. usually when discussing a stooge at the workplace, it's usually about someone in management. a dumb dispatcher, a know-it-all dock supervisor, or a stubborn TM. this isn't the case in Maspeth. as a driver, you can work with a dispatcher on his cluelessness. you can ignore a dock supervisor and speak to his boss. you can also reason with a TM with the right approach. all this stuff is fairly easy to do. what's not easy to do is trying to figure why a fellow driver, well drivers in this case, decides on being stooges.
since the pandemic began us in Maspeth have followed all health & safety protocols the company has put in place. occasionally you'll have a guy or two not have a mask on in the yard. sometimes they'll even walk into the driver's room without one on. they might be eating, drinking a coffee, talking on a cell phone, etc. There are even some a-holes who just refuse to wear one. Once pointed out, their mask goes on. apparently that's not good enough for 2 drivers.
These 2 overreact and embellish what's really going on to another driver who's sitting at home collecting compensation. the driver at home, who dislikes our shop steward and BA for unknown reasons, proceeds to call OSHA and give them a false report of dock workers & drivers not following protocols. from my recollection, he has called OSHA 3 times but i can bet it's more. this type of stuff usually happens at non-union work places but here we are. it was discovered recently that the driver at home had this odd idea of trying to take over as shop steward. word got around and people laughed at him. i guess that bothered him enough to act like a man with lady parts with the other 2 stooges in tow. what some choose to do to possibly harm their co-workers simply amazes me. OSHA has no business being called to a union shop by a union member to report on other union members. that's cowardly, IMO. why give a state/government agency any insight on your job? who does that benefit ? most drivers by now know who was behind these incidents and have kept their distances from them, for the most part anyway. most of the newer drivers haven't a clue as to what occurred so at times you'll see them chatting it up with the stooges. eventually those drivers, as we did, will see right thru them.
since the pandemic began us in Maspeth have followed all health & safety protocols the company has put in place. occasionally you'll have a guy or two not have a mask on in the yard. sometimes they'll even walk into the driver's room without one on. they might be eating, drinking a coffee, talking on a cell phone, etc. There are even some a-holes who just refuse to wear one. Once pointed out, their mask goes on. apparently that's not good enough for 2 drivers.
These 2 overreact and embellish what's really going on to another driver who's sitting at home collecting compensation. the driver at home, who dislikes our shop steward and BA for unknown reasons, proceeds to call OSHA and give them a false report of dock workers & drivers not following protocols. from my recollection, he has called OSHA 3 times but i can bet it's more. this type of stuff usually happens at non-union work places but here we are. it was discovered recently that the driver at home had this odd idea of trying to take over as shop steward. word got around and people laughed at him. i guess that bothered him enough to act like a man with lady parts with the other 2 stooges in tow. what some choose to do to possibly harm their co-workers simply amazes me. OSHA has no business being called to a union shop by a union member to report on other union members. that's cowardly, IMO. why give a state/government agency any insight on your job? who does that benefit ? most drivers by now know who was behind these incidents and have kept their distances from them, for the most part anyway. most of the newer drivers haven't a clue as to what occurred so at times you'll see them chatting it up with the stooges. eventually those drivers, as we did, will see right thru them.