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<blockquote data-quote="Retired36yrs" data-source="post: 5314408" data-attributes="member: 100065">Your scenario that you’re describing is exactly why I brought this up. I had a supervisor that would force me to harass or intimidate drivers into continuing their route with a package car that had DOT problems, such as light issues, faulty horn, faulty seatbelt, or engine problems such as coolant leaks, Oil leaks, power steering leaks, Starting issues, etc.If a driver pushed back, my supervisor would make me bring them out the worst truck we had in the fleet. One day I had had enough and refused to comply with policy of harassing drivers through me. Of course you can guess what happened after that. I became the black sheep of the shop, but favored by the drivers. Since the drivers out numbered the shop mechanics by 40 to 1, I was OK with that. But my career in the shop was not without Great controversy to which even after my retirement, it is still playing out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired36yrs, post: 5314408, member: 100065"] Your scenario that you’re describing is exactly why I brought this up. I had a supervisor that would force me to harass or intimidate drivers into continuing their route with a package car that had DOT problems, such as light issues, faulty horn, faulty seatbelt, or engine problems such as coolant leaks, Oil leaks, power steering leaks, Starting issues, etc. If a driver pushed back, my supervisor would make me bring them out the worst truck we had in the fleet. One day I had had enough and refused to comply with policy of harassing drivers through me. Of course you can guess what happened after that. I became the black sheep of the shop, but favored by the drivers. Since the drivers out numbered the shop mechanics by 40 to 1, I was OK with that. But my career in the shop was not without Great controversy to which even after my retirement, it is still playing out. [/QUOTE]

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