How long til current stew retires? We use alternates here so that when there is a transition the new stew already had their feet wet. Most of the time....
He’s a couple years away but I’ve been told by other drivers that he’s not looking to stick around as stew after all the crap he’s put up with in the last year. That’s just what I hear from some trusted old driver buddies.
I think it was a lot easier to be stew in my building, when you got hooked up with 8-8.5 dispatches every day. So you had time to take care of some business after you finish route/before you leave the building. In the last year it’s changed so much and the grievances have multiplied. So he’s been out til 930 every night like the rest of us and has all this extra curricular crap to deal with. It’s a thankless job, but it’s great, purposeful, honest work, man. To be a steward for the Teamsters, I feel like to do that job correctly and fight for your fellow worker is an honorable lot in life. Not all stewards see it that way, I’m sure, but I’d be damn proud of it.
I have yet to have a man to man with him on the subject and my interest and Monday is probably a good day. Rather him hear it from me than someone else. Maybe he’ll help me, or at least let me know that I’m years away from getting a shot