September 16, 2004

• Somebody at work pissed me off!  This story is going to be hard to
  tell since I’m still trying to avoid giving off too much on where I
  work but here goes….

  The operation that I’m in involves picking up company employees as well
  as customers.  Well there’s a designated area that people are
  suppose to board at and we are not suppose to go away from that
  routine.  The problem is that other department’s employees
  try their luck in getting picked up at a closer location to them,
  because they are too lazy to walk.  What’s worse is when the
  vehicle is already moving and they try and “hitchhike” for a ride,
  which is something that we’re even more not suppose to do for safety
  reasons. To further give you background, a long time ago we used to not
  care about those rules and just pretty much acted like “good
  samaritans” everytime somebody needed a ride.  But then once we
  had a driver that actually followed the rules, the passenger had the
  nerve to actually complain that he didn’t get special treatment. 
  So who got in trouble? WE DID!  So we got burned, and I pretty much
  insist on my drivers to make sure to just stick with the rules, since
  we were taken for granted by those passengers anyways.

  Well at work a bunch of employees from another department was able to
  hitchhike a ride on the vehicle I was in.  I for one was
  disappointed that the driver even bothered to stop for them (he’s not a
  “regular”), and I even said “you guys are lucky” when they
  boarded.  When we got to our destination, one of those guys
  approached me and said that he didn’t “appreciate” my comment,
  especially since they said “thank you” to the driver.  “Thank
  you?” I’d rather I hear him say “I’m sorry for being an inconvenience,”
  but I didn’t tell that to his face.  He then kept saying how it
  was the driver’s decision to stop and he doesn’t see why it’s a
  problem. I try and tell him the reason, but he just wouldn’t let me
  speak my mind and kept interrupting me.  I pretty much asked him
  if “he wanted the driver to get in trouble” and he kept dodging the
  question by saying “no, it shouldn’t matter.”  I told him that by
  “waving” at the driver to see if he would possibly stop causes more
  problems than he thinks. It puts the driver in a moral dillema of
  either following the rules, or being a good samaritan.  Basically
  it makes their jobs even harder than it has to be.  But Nooooo, he
  wouldn’t hear it and then walked off. Unbelievable! The guy breaks the
  rules and he doesn’t even have the ability to take a joking jab for his
  own wrong doings?

  I for one am very protective of the operations’ crew, and the fact that
  they are soo taken for granted just pisses me off.  Those
  passengers don’t care about the welfare of my drivers, all they care is
  that they don’t have to walk farther than they have to.  They
  don’t even realize that upper management could easily just pull the
  plug of the operation for situations like these, and then they’ll be
  crying that they don’t get rides anymore. Those IDIOTS!

  • 10:09 am
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