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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 1287779" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>The intent behind bending and/or breaking the rules for most drivers is probably honorable and some not so much but in the long wrong just not worth the risk. To me successfully bending or breaking the rules 1000 times isn't worth the potential risk of that one time that something goes wrong and and it comes back haunt me. All it takes is that one time to get a driver walked out the door while negating the hundreds or even thousands of successful rule breaking deliveries and costing the driver their job. But I'm not talking about what most would consider arbitrary methods. Hell it's hard not to break them when there are so many. I'm talking about the biggies. I have broken some of them in the past. Mostly during the first two or three years I was driving but after a few close calls and one very nerve racking one I decided enough is enough.</p><p></p><p>Some customers will accept the extra effort (I struggle to call it that given the nature of the topic) without even knowing that a driver is going outside of their prescribed duties but many are just taking advantage of them. They will do so with a smile on their face but once something goes wrong they won't hesitate to turn on the driver. And sometimes an incident can be triggered accidentally by one of those customers that was ignorant to the fact that the driver was breaking the rules or one that didn't. Like when someone like me doesn't sign for (or forge the customer's signature) the VA meds for a customer that physically can't get to the door or who's work schedule doesn't allow them to be home to receive them. They call in a concern to complain that the driver usually "just signs for them......" but didn't today and didn't even know that it was the cover driver just following the methods. Or maybe a customer calls and thinks they are ratting on "that backup guy" for something they think he did wrong but in the process, and ignorantly, are spilling the beans on their "normal driver."</p><p></p><p>So, you see there are just too many risks in my opinion. And some infractions won't get you fired but not having them on your record could go a long way in helping a driver if he were later confronted with another issue. If a manager or district manager is looking at the driver's record, or simply knows the driver has had issues with breaking what seems like arbitrary rules, they might see that as a bad sign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 1287779, member: 198"] The intent behind bending and/or breaking the rules for most drivers is probably honorable and some not so much but in the long wrong just not worth the risk. To me successfully bending or breaking the rules 1000 times isn't worth the potential risk of that one time that something goes wrong and and it comes back haunt me. All it takes is that one time to get a driver walked out the door while negating the hundreds or even thousands of successful rule breaking deliveries and costing the driver their job. But I'm not talking about what most would consider arbitrary methods. Hell it's hard not to break them when there are so many. I'm talking about the biggies. I have broken some of them in the past. Mostly during the first two or three years I was driving but after a few close calls and one very nerve racking one I decided enough is enough. Some customers will accept the extra effort (I struggle to call it that given the nature of the topic) without even knowing that a driver is going outside of their prescribed duties but many are just taking advantage of them. They will do so with a smile on their face but once something goes wrong they won't hesitate to turn on the driver. And sometimes an incident can be triggered accidentally by one of those customers that was ignorant to the fact that the driver was breaking the rules or one that didn't. Like when someone like me doesn't sign for (or forge the customer's signature) the VA meds for a customer that physically can't get to the door or who's work schedule doesn't allow them to be home to receive them. They call in a concern to complain that the driver usually "just signs for them......" but didn't today and didn't even know that it was the cover driver just following the methods. Or maybe a customer calls and thinks they are ratting on "that backup guy" for something they think he did wrong but in the process, and ignorantly, are spilling the beans on their "normal driver." So, you see there are just too many risks in my opinion. And some infractions won't get you fired but not having them on your record could go a long way in helping a driver if he were later confronted with another issue. If a manager or district manager is looking at the driver's record, or simply knows the driver has had issues with breaking what seems like arbitrary rules, they might see that as a bad sign. [/QUOTE]
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