Avoidable runaway
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rod
Retired 22 years
They always told us that a good driver should be able to slam on the brakes -throw the emergency brake on - make the delivery and get back in the truck before it quit rocking back and forth. But That was back when we had it tough--not like you babyset drivers now days.
The Driver
I drive.
The kind of guy that writes a sentence like OP is probably too stupid to work here anyway. Good grief!
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
rod
Retired 22 years
It was hard to be a runner when you needed a signature for damn near everything. Everyone is a runner the first year or so. Or at least until they crap on you one too many times and you go off the deep end like the majority of the piss off workers.
rod
Retired 22 years
You and everyone else. Eventually they manage to turn everyone against them. Its their own damn fault with their "manage by harassment" style of business. I shouldn't say everyone--there will always be a few Upstates in the crowd.
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
And a mortgage.
rod
Retired 22 years
I don't have much faith in the "young kids" anymore. They give up too easy. They want EVERYTHING---NOW.
Pay that sucker off! It's a very liberating feeling.
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
Depends on if it's an extended center or hub.
Our "kids" truly work hard. Yes, they dont have a clue about customer relations but it's even harder with the abortion dispatches we see. Heck, even the A routes are often primordial soup derived.
We have children dispatching the thing down the toilet and they couldn't care less because even if we lose a large account we saved 150 miles that day and that's all that matters.
rod
Retired 22 years
Not always---there is such a thing as a bad kid also. When they grow up knowing the nobody can lay a hand on them a certain percentage HAS to test the limits. Add to that peer pressure and drugs and its not always the parents fault.
rod
Retired 22 years
Oh I agree with you 100%. Parents today for the most part are horrible. All they want to do is be their kids best friend and that is not what real parenting is about.
Boywondr
The truth never changes.
I'm talking about the 30+ group that just went into major debt, plus have kids.
Common sense often precipitates from responsibility and the unmarried young crowd is only looking to get off early and hunt dear.
The parents often had it too easy.
Most never cared enough to love, honor, and cherish the spouse much less the kids.
Priorities are money and fun. Why would a young person embrace commitment to a job when everything in their young lives were throw away issues?
You are right. For the most part responsibility and commitment are both learned from at least one parent.
And God bless coaches. Someone's gotta care.
