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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 1276735" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>I get where you are coming from. It would be very easy for me to fall into the same trap, but I fight it every day. For every example of a driver being yelled at for failing to turn a 10hr dispatch into an 8 hour day, I can give you an example of a driver who took out a 7.25 hr dispatch, and despite the area being tighter to get that smaller stop count, some how managed to drop his sporh from a 15.5 to a 13.7, then ods in late that he will not make the 8, and mysteriously not be able to make the meet ups with drivers sent to help him, and files, and wins, the grievance. Because any problems with dispatch are always managements fault no matter the behavior of the driver. </p><p>Or the driver that legitimately did not have the seniority for a day with max vacations/options that was denied who gets mysteriously sick on the friday he wanted off but on facebook that day he seems quite healthy running around the Las Vegas strip (go ahead and insert giggle here). Or the driver who talked his doctor into giving him intermittent FMLA for headaches who mysteriously gets those headaches only on Fridays and Mondays, and days when his kids have a sporting event. Must be the stress. </p><p>The list goes on. And the pattern never changes. I am willing to bet you will find a way in your mind to justify any of these actions as a defensible reaction to management misdeeds. All things are managements fault. </p><p></p><p>I am sure I can match you example for example of poor behavior. Despite that, I refuse to see all drivers as in a class of morally bankrupt people. I refuse to become prejudiced and bigoted. And it is a form of bigotry, not nearly as harmful or spiteful as most racial or ethnic bigotries, granted, but a form of bigotry none the less. </p><p></p><p>If it makes it sound any better, I have much more contempt for the mindset of the management people who have allowed themselves to fall into this bigotry than the hourly. Also realize, my contempt is for your preconceived notions and attitudes. Not you personally. I keep that distinction very clear- it is one of the tools I use to avoid the trap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 1276735, member: 14596"] I get where you are coming from. It would be very easy for me to fall into the same trap, but I fight it every day. For every example of a driver being yelled at for failing to turn a 10hr dispatch into an 8 hour day, I can give you an example of a driver who took out a 7.25 hr dispatch, and despite the area being tighter to get that smaller stop count, some how managed to drop his sporh from a 15.5 to a 13.7, then ods in late that he will not make the 8, and mysteriously not be able to make the meet ups with drivers sent to help him, and files, and wins, the grievance. Because any problems with dispatch are always managements fault no matter the behavior of the driver. Or the driver that legitimately did not have the seniority for a day with max vacations/options that was denied who gets mysteriously sick on the friday he wanted off but on facebook that day he seems quite healthy running around the Las Vegas strip (go ahead and insert giggle here). Or the driver who talked his doctor into giving him intermittent FMLA for headaches who mysteriously gets those headaches only on Fridays and Mondays, and days when his kids have a sporting event. Must be the stress. The list goes on. And the pattern never changes. I am willing to bet you will find a way in your mind to justify any of these actions as a defensible reaction to management misdeeds. All things are managements fault. I am sure I can match you example for example of poor behavior. Despite that, I refuse to see all drivers as in a class of morally bankrupt people. I refuse to become prejudiced and bigoted. And it is a form of bigotry, not nearly as harmful or spiteful as most racial or ethnic bigotries, granted, but a form of bigotry none the less. If it makes it sound any better, I have much more contempt for the mindset of the management people who have allowed themselves to fall into this bigotry than the hourly. Also realize, my contempt is for your preconceived notions and attitudes. Not you personally. I keep that distinction very clear- it is one of the tools I use to avoid the trap. [/QUOTE]
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