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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty Savage" data-source="post: 208144" data-attributes="member: 10384"><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Did I work my butt off when I first started? Hmmmm . . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">I was hired in the last week of November 2003. I was sent to a different city for orientation and over the course of three days I received 9 total hours of training. The following Monday I showed up to my first day on the job. Got to ride along with a guy while he did his route to observe. Day two was more of the same, as was day three. On day four I was told to start at 4:30 a.m. to learn the morning routine, as that was to be what I would be doing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">So, I show up on day 4 at the ungodly hour of 4:30, eyes are barely open. It's -20 outside. I go to the airport to load that days air into a pkg car and bring it back to the centre. I unload that. Then I start unloading trailers while the full-time drivers are starting. I continue to unload trailers for the next two hours. Then I am thrown on a full-time route during peak season, having only a rudimentary knowledge of how the DIAD works. Quickly realized how little I knew about the city I had lived in all my life. Came back from that first day exhausted and frozen . . . after working 14 hours! And I was a rookie and only part-time!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">12 to 14 hour days were the norm during my first peak season, all the way up to Dec. 22 when I got suspended for side-swiping the tire rack and tearing a nice hole in the side of my p300.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">During my first month I lost over 20 lbs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Now that I'm full-time and I have my own route I put in on average about 10 hours a day. We don't have a pre-load here so the first two hours are spent loading my truck, spazzing out about 4th floor walk-up bulk stops, worrying if I'm gonna get all my air done, then it's 8 hrs on road trying not to run over seniors or strangle any bitchy customers - the latter becoming increasingly difficult as the heat of the summer intensifies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty Savage, post: 208144, member: 10384"] [FONT=Palatino Linotype]Did I work my butt off when I first started? Hmmmm . . . I was hired in the last week of November 2003. I was sent to a different city for orientation and over the course of three days I received 9 total hours of training. The following Monday I showed up to my first day on the job. Got to ride along with a guy while he did his route to observe. Day two was more of the same, as was day three. On day four I was told to start at 4:30 a.m. to learn the morning routine, as that was to be what I would be doing. So, I show up on day 4 at the ungodly hour of 4:30, eyes are barely open. It's -20 outside. I go to the airport to load that days air into a pkg car and bring it back to the centre. I unload that. Then I start unloading trailers while the full-time drivers are starting. I continue to unload trailers for the next two hours. Then I am thrown on a full-time route during peak season, having only a rudimentary knowledge of how the DIAD works. Quickly realized how little I knew about the city I had lived in all my life. Came back from that first day exhausted and frozen . . . after working 14 hours! And I was a rookie and only part-time! 12 to 14 hour days were the norm during my first peak season, all the way up to Dec. 22 when I got suspended for side-swiping the tire rack and tearing a nice hole in the side of my p300. During my first month I lost over 20 lbs. Now that I'm full-time and I have my own route I put in on average about 10 hours a day. We don't have a pre-load here so the first two hours are spent loading my truck, spazzing out about 4th floor walk-up bulk stops, worrying if I'm gonna get all my air done, then it's 8 hrs on road trying not to run over seniors or strangle any bitchy customers - the latter becoming increasingly difficult as the heat of the summer intensifies. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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