Of course, the company shorted me a great deal of break down pay. My tour sheet that lists all of that was quite well detailed. They send out settlement sheets that show a break down of what's being paid where. So, I immediately contacted my manager, sent him all the info and a copy of the tour sheet and informed him that I am not interested in a repeat of getting shorted such as what occurred that night several months ago where the airbag on the trailer broke and they refused to pay me for it.
I will await his action on it and see if he can get this taken care of. If not, I informed him I would be talking to the powers that be directly about this situation, as I am not going to be sit around dealing with getting their ancient equipment fixed - some of the trailers we have are 30 plus years old - and think that I should just be doing it for free. I'm actually to the point that I would consider getting a lawyer and suing the company for failure to pay worked hours - however that would work out.
This stuff irks me. Any time I have a break down after that incident, I wonder whether I'm going to get paid. If they screw me again, the next time it breaks down I will contact my manager and tell them to send someone up to tend to the truck or trailer for free, as I will be refusing to do so. I won't call the break down number, I won't do anything but tell them to deal with it. Or give me in writing a guarantee before I do anything, that I am going to get paid for every single minute that I'm dealing with it - whether on or off duty. This isn't my policy, I didn't make this up, this is their policy and there is no valid reason not to honor. I'll give my manager a chance to see if he can get this changed without all the - friction that will likely ensue if this company refuses to pay up.
Telephone pole still not in, never received a return call from the power company about an estimated install time. I'm not going to call again for at least another week. Just let it ride, I don't have to have this right away. I need it in - somewhat soon - but not right now. You do it now because you find out it can be up to 2 months before they actually show up to do the install.
I did talk to the website designer at length on the phone. He doesn't just do web design, he engages in getting google traffic steered towards your website. He knows how to manipulate the algorithms that determine whose sites show up at the top of the searches. This guy has been involved in helping businesses grow for 27 years, he definitely has a grasp on what he's doing, I think I found a winner on that level. What we are going to do is have up a prototype stie that won't really have any info on it, but it will be on Google. It apparently helps to have it up months in advance to get the ratings up.
Well, hurry up and wait. Just can only give friendly reminders that I am still here, still needing all kinds of work done, please don't forget.
It will get done sooner or later.
Brownsville run tomorrow - in the automatic truck. It is a better driving truck than the previous automatics I have driven. I'm not in love with the thing but it's tolerable. My truck is currently being repaired, I'm hopeful the thing is done by the time I get back from this next trip and go up and get it. Even the drive back from the hotel and repair facility - they switched it to hourly instead of mileage, losing another $70 or $80. I was shorted around $400.
Today, i found out from an old associate from Ferguson that the manager there had been fired. This is the guy they enlisted from a purchasing position - where he was alone in a building and not interacting with anyone excepting on the phone because he can't deal with people without getting angry. His immediate first actions as new manager was to get lividly angry and shout at the top of his lungs at everyone. And so on and so forth - of which I eventually turned in as well as another for abusing employees. The "investigation" turned out that "no one else can corroborate your story". And I said at the time, of course not, they are afraid of him and losing their jobs.
Why was he fired? Because he not only threatened to beat an employee's ass, he actually went to the guy's house! Some level of vindication is felt at this point in time. The guy has anger issues, everyone working around him knows that, but people are afraid of losing their jobs so they won't rock the boat.
Well enough. I have stuff to do. It's already late afternoon, dinner to be made and other stuff I need to get done before I go to bed to get up early for loading tomorrow morning.
