Does anyone else get this from their boss? Instigating that you have been in a cafe somewhere and taking the ■■■■. When all that you have actually been doing is your job. To the best of your ability. Fed up of it and considering the vehicles are all tracked, it should show where i am. I.e at the customer.
Anyone else get earache from the (so called), boss? I can never think of a good enough reply at the time, and always think of what i should of said once its too late. What do you lot say as a reply?
i used to get that from a previous firm, all the trucks were tracked, so when they called to ask i would say 2 things, 1. the vehicles are tracked…use your brains…2. its illegal to phone me while driving, and you too will also get a fine…it seemed to shut them up…for a while…
My stock answer to “where have you been?” Is invariably “well, when I was a child we went to Cheddar Gorge a lot. When I was a little older we did the Spain and Greece thing. Moving onto my twenties I favoured…” They kind of give up then, safe in the knowledge that they’re dealing with an idiot.
‘I’m at xxxx. why do you ask if you know. Have you nothing better to do, I’m sure you will have’
'A bit longer than I would have been if you had just left me alone to do my job. Now leave me alone and free to do it and then ‘I’ will ring ‘YOU’
If it is some young knob of a ‘planner’
.‘Look mate I was doing this job before you were born. I know what I’m doing, so when I am done you will get a call, so just leave me’
(Or just a plain old ■■■■ off also works, if they (planner) are particularly annoying, but maybe more tact is called for if it is the Boss himself.
I have said all of these at various firms at one time or another and it has had the desired effect… And before I get the inevitable comments I can count on one hand how many firms I have worked at in 36yrs.
My present boss just leaves me to get on with things, although he does both push and hassle some of the others.
I learned a long time ago… They only push you if you ALLOW them to.
AlltypeArocs:
Anyone else get earache from the (so called), boss? What do you lot say as a reply?
I used to get that from the planners in the last outfit I worked for, part of the reason I left driving, I’m sure they found someone to do a better job. The constant moaning left me thinking that they can find a replacement.
I’m waiting for the resident hard men to come on saying that they were called up so they went back to the yard and rammed the phone right down the bosses neck. …
If its the Boss,tell him to pick up the phone and ring your first and last drop, then stick my card in to be analysed
If its some ordinary office waller just out of nappies or college ask him /her how long have they held a licence,invariably only have a car licence or hand him /her your keys and say you take my next trip and i`ll sit as shotgun
I used to work for a steel stockholder in Surrey which runs a fleet of 7.5-tonners and a couple of class 2’s. They were all right until they installed trackers, at which point they started ringing up demanding to know why I had stopped or why I’d taken the route I’d used (such as taking the A320 from Staines to Guildford instead of sitting in the traffic on the M25). One time I had to stop to use the loo, and so used a filling station outside Maidenhead on the A4. Boss rang and when I told him why, he said “well please don’t do this again”. I replied “as long as I don’t need the loo again”.
Only once in the last gawd nose how many years, and that was on agency about 5 years ago at a local pallet line mob (get mentioned here often enough, pays crap, ignorance and ill manners is standard practice in the office, can’t think why they struggle for drivers ), i’d gone in at 6am as requested, 4 wheeler not loaded, so eventually after the forkies of doom and gloom had got round to loading me it was about 8.15, left the yard and i’m 10 miles up the road and one of the kids (35 year old kid) is ringing me having a winge that i’m late for my 8am deliveries…yes i did tell him straight, and when i got back told them that would be the last they’d ever see of me (i’d been there several times and the sheer ignorance of them i could no longer stand)…i know the big cheese there personally by the way, why he let it get to this point i haven’t a clue…and that was the last they did or will ever see of me.
Before that life was all rush and tear on the car transporters and to be fair most allocators in that game do know what they are talking about…you get your leg pulled when you’ve done the impossible but couldn’t manage a miracle but its always in good humour and never serious.
Where i am now you are never rushed, plenty of time to do the job, if there’s a problem we find somewhere to stop and phone it in, simple as that…mind you there’s more spying equipment in the vehicles now than MI5/6 have combined, so no need to ask they only have to switch on the various systems if they really want to know.
I think its the general and pallet game where you get immature fools in the office.
Get a text daily with work.
Sometimes get a text saying whats your eta bla bla with what drive time left.
Sometimes get a text saying where will you get to today?
All no problem
Honestly I don’t know why drivers get so irate about being asked where you are or when you will get somewhere. Give information freely and cheerfully, and carry on your day. It’s not really hard or complicated…
Every now and again I know it can be a ■■■■ take, but 9 times out of 10 someone is looking for a bit of information to complete a puzzle. You are work colleagues meant to be pulling in the same direction, not at logger heads.
), i’d gone in at 6am as requested, 4 wheeler not loaded, so eventually after the forkies of doom and gloom had got round to loading me it was about 8.15, left the yard and i’m 10 miles up the road and one of the kids (35 year old kid) is ringing me having a winge that i’m late for my 8am deliveries…yes i did tell him straight, and when i got back told them that would be the last they’d ever see of me (i’d been there several times and the sheer ignorance of them i could no longer stand)…i know the big cheese there personally by the way, why he let it get to this point i haven’t a clue…and that was the last they did or will ever see of me.