Tales from the workplace

Company: How can we reduce delays between trailer pulls in the yard? Me: Be great if there was a built in porta-potty in the truck. Like sleeper cabs, but with toilets! Company's Solution: https://i.ani.me/0363/8862/1000005918.jpg https://i.ani.me/0363/8866/1000005919.jpg

When other companies tell their employees "remember to smile," mine says, "dem fightin' words!" So don't ever smile! It might cost you your life. Also if someone challenges you to a DBZ style beam struggle, back down immediately! Just get outta there. You can't handle their power level! 0

I'm not that familiar with SAS technology so today I had to in a very serious way ask a developer how to perform the 69 command.

We have a latte machine now? And it isn't crap! Well it's only a matter of time before some coworker breaks it doing something stupid.

Um...this is real...and I have some concerns. This looks like it has the potential to be a workplace hazard. Just saying.

My company is clown shoes most days. I had to drive to 3 different sites in my personal vehicle to find a day cab to drive and wouldn't you know the closest was over an hour away. Then I get there and I can't find the truck. Look all over the yard and finally I find a manager to ask. They look at me confused. Pick up the radio to call out to the other drivers. And one replies back, "No I ain't seen the truck." Manager says, "The computer says it left the yard. Why is that?" Guy on the other line goes, "Yeah, boss, I don't know. What were the numbers on it?" Manager reads back the truck's ID. Guy goes, "Oh! I'm driving it!" Manager then asks why he's in it since he didn't have an assigned load. Dude replied, "I went up the street to the convenient store." Boss then asks, "Who authorized you to do that?" Driver calls back, "My tummy cause it got a case of the rumblies!" Suffice to say things got real quick as now I was over half an hour late to pick up my load. But it still wasn't over yet! Finally the driver shows back up an hour past my departure time to hand me the keys to the truck and I go, "Were you driving without your lights on?" Man looks at the vehicle and turns to me to say, "Huh, thought they were on?" I check and sure enough the bulbs burnt out. I asked if the dude did a pre trip inspection before he took off on his joy ride and to no surprise he says, "Nope!" Being a modern day truck driver is nuts! That's all I have to say about that.

@gabriel_true I sat in a car with a truck radio once, and the whole trip, we were listening to Truck Drivers conspiring which annoying drivers to box in. Do you guys still do that?

Haha! That might explain a few things on my end. But at least at my company I have yet to hear of that happening. Though we do have other absurd nonsense.