Thursday - early
Well, the week is slowly ticking by. At least I'm at Thursday and no longer at Monday.
Fitful sleep last night, just kept waking up. Anxiety, the desire to not be here and stuff going through my mind about the park. Gotta shut all of that off, I know that, sometimes it's difficult. Oh, and weird dreams.
Mostly, I just want out of this corporate world. You are subject to their rules, desires, whims, methodologies, etc. This particular company hasn't taken any hardline stances about much of anything, yet. They have their rules but most of that is required by the Feds. The feds basically run the trucking industry nowadays. Companies that don't adhere to their beckon desires, your company can literally be axed.
I voluntarily subjected myself to this, I have to keep telling myself. I'm spending an entire week going through training that I have gone through endlessly before just to be able to get on the road and actually what I'm being hired to do. I'm not even hired yet, that is supposed to happen today when the drug test results come back. I don't do drugs beyond occasional Tylenol and sometimes some cough medicines, shouldn't be any issues there. That is all required by the feds.
I got lucky this month that those 2 trailers stayed another month. Speaking of that, I need to write down their phone numbers, gag, I'm forgetting to do that again. I am assuming their work with QuikTrip will be done before a month's time, but in case it isn't, I need to be able to contact them. Oh, take that back, I saved it into my phone. I was busy at the time and thought, if I don't save this, it will fall off of recents and I won't be able to contact them yet again.
Anyway, just sitting here biding my time. Today may be a full day, who knows, but tomorrow is going to be something like an hour and then it's over. Now, whether it's over until Monday or over until getting into a truck on Saturday with a trainer? Who knows. I "feel" like taking the weekend off, but my brain is telling me work. It's not my choice, if no one is available, which apparently they are not very often on weekends, I will sit the rest of Friday after work until early Monday morning.
I'm resigned to be here until at least Friday, it's just what it is. The only way to leave earlier is to say screw this and go home. After all I've done with paperwork and well over 100 tests? No. Might as well follow through, get home and find out what it is really like to work for this company versus what people are telling me it is like.
As previously stated, today is tablet day and hire-on day. The hiring doesn't take place until after they get the drug results back. Then I am to sit down with some high level manager and get interviewed. Which is odd, I have been interviewed up the ying-yang already. I'm guessing this is the part where they tell you how it's going to be, fall in line or leave. Someone is going to come along with a hardline stance sooner or later, it's pretty much inevitable in the trucking industry. I just sit there and say yes sir and no sir, eat it and move on. Everyone eats it at some point in their lives.
If this works out like they say it will, I will park the truck when going through at the property. Behind the shed. On the side of the driveway. There's just one problem I can see with that setup. Rain. If I'm going to need to use the rear of the driveway where the tanks are set up, when it rains hard? It turns into a mud pit back there. The only way to fix it is to have several truckloads of gravel brought in. I can see the need for at least 3 or 4.
Oh, btw? My room is directly above the RV park laundromat. They have a lot of machines in there and people are in there early and late. Another thing that kept me awake last night. There is nothing I can do about it. The people aren't making unecessary noises, they are just opening and closing the doors to the machines This building I am is the RV park office. The second floor above it is where I'm at.
I dunno if the original builders of this park had some sort of idea that they would have live-in management up here or what. The manager allegedly lives in a trailer in the park itself. That isn't unheard of at all.
I'm not making that much money this week, it was expected. Not desired, but expected. This company is cheap, that is the bottom line. They gave me a set of papers to fill out to review them. Uh, they might not much care for what I have to say about the way they are treating incoming drivers. I have my views of it and it is in line with what most of the trucking industry does as standard practice, this place excluded from that description.
In the world of the RV park, I may be raising my short term rates once I get money flowing from this job in. I don't get that much overnight stuff, they might as well pay the same as everyone else is charging to come here. I wouldn't mind raising my monthly rate back up to what it was before I hit a dead period where I had too many lots open and no one really inquiring. My rates are too low, I just did it to get people in there. I wouldn't necessarily raise the rates on the people already in the park, just incoming newbies.
Well, getting close to departure time for the main building. It's only a few minutes walk away. See what kind of day I'm going to have and hope I wake up a little better than what I am right now, I feel like I could go back to bed for several hours. I've got a mind full of thoughts about things to keep me from getting bored if it turns out to be a long, boring, monotonous day. Most orientation stuff and doing all of those modules is a big, long fight to keep oneself awake and focused. There is some material in there that I hadn't encountered before, this isn't the same products. A lot of it is glue. And a new one: having to wash out the trailer every time. You don't do it yourself, you take it to a facility where they do it for you.
G'day
