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Post by concretejoe on Feb 17, 2007 0:09:02 GMT -5
I can see taking care of your equipment. That is part of your job, but if your truck is clean you shouldn't have to do someone elses job. Normally we our running hard at it. So when I get an opportunity to sit for a little while I don't think the company should be that hard pressed about keeping me busy. My YPMH avg. is about 3.5. The industry as a whole runs about 2.76. My companys bare minimum for bonus is 3.0. If I'm running at 3.0 or better then I feel I've done my part for the company.
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Post by Slick on Feb 18, 2007 8:57:27 GMT -5
I agree completely about doin other peoples work, especially when it's obvious that they are gettin over on purpose. Another plant of ours down the road, you can hear their batchman tell them on the radio, "come and get with me before you clock out", i.e.; I've got work other than what you've been hired for to do.....but just as much, guys takin the long way back from a job so they don't haul as much etc, etc..
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Post by batchmaster on Apr 25, 2007 19:41:10 GMT -5
and that's why I'm glad I don't work in the ready mix industry anymore, might I say that the people I work with now are a lot like most of you driver's. When you are on the clock you are getting paid right, so any work that needs to be done should be done, period, if you driver's had it your way and management didn't keep you busy, everyone would look like Jabba the Hutt, that's how much motivation you guys have to get out of your truck, so we provide that motivation. And if you are put on lunch, take a lunch and don't complain about it, that is the break I have been referring to, not clocking out if we have down time, that time is paid, no doubt about it, no way would we expect guys to hang out there at work off the clock, although it seems to me that everyone did like to hang out for an extra half hour after they had clocked out anyways so...they must have liked me.
Just think of a one yardman plant, loading the plant on a 1000 yard day, and some driver pulls up with leftovers, pours blocks, and expects the yardman to finish these blocks...not happening. Main duty of the yardman is to keep that plant running and loaded. If there is extra work and the yardman is available, great, he'll be right there beside you. Or he'll do all the work when you get over on the company because you've been hired as a driver, so you say. But why do I care, I don't do this job anymore, but this was a direct response to one of my posts so...here you go. But then again maybe there is some confusion to my definition of yardman and yours...the yardman at the plant where I worked was the loader operator so...he wasn't just sitting there waiting on the weeds to grow so he could pull them.
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Post by batchmaster on Apr 25, 2007 20:24:39 GMT -5
Oh and just so everyone knows, the company that I worked for had to close that particular plant, because they had paid driver's lunches for four years without charging them a lunch when they had taken a lunch and not marked it off. So out of the kindness of their hearts, and that extra $9.00 a day that the driver's wanted each, the company lost a plant. Hope everyone feels great about it. And everyone knows that is the reason it closed. Now look at all of the friendships you have lost because the original crew got seperated, all having to find new jobs, almost brings a tear to my eye. I hear one guy is delivering salsa to California. Just hope that there aren't any tortilla chips on board, that guy had a problem with his weight as it was, he didn't need the extra temptation. Most everyone else is still on unemployment...losing everything, for that extra $9 a day.
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Post by concretejoe on May 2, 2007 23:30:24 GMT -5
...if you driver's had it your way and management didn't keep you busy, everyone would look like Jabba the Hutt.... But then again maybe there is some confusion to my definition of yardman and yours...the yardman at the plant where I worked was the loader operator so... First, what's it to ya if I want to look like Jabba the Hutt. Dispatchers sit on their hindquarters all day too. Second, at my plant we have a loader operator and a yardman. The loader operators main concern is keeping the plant full. The yardman's main concern is keeping the area around the plant tidy. The main thing is that everybody has a job and every job has a body. If there is something that needs to be done that my fellow co-worker needs help with, I have no problem lending a helping hand. My main problem is with "busy" work. Something to do to keep me busy because there won't be any loads for two hours. Sorry, I can't get in to that. |
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Post by concretejoe on May 2, 2007 23:38:03 GMT -5
So out of the kindness of their hearts, and that extra $9.00 a day that the driver's wanted each, the company lost a plant. I don't know the situation that you are talking about. I will say that, in my opinion, if $9/day/driver put them under then they would have gone under anyway. That just sounds like typical management blaming the drivers for their own stupidity. It's always the drivers fault. |
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Post by batchmaster on May 3, 2007 21:03:58 GMT -5
if you are union, tell me in your contract where it specifically states that you are a driver alone. no where. you are to perform any duties outside of that truck that are asked of you. i forget the exact wording that was in the contract at the company that i worked at, but like i said, why do you think that you should be paid to sit there for that 2 hours? that's just ridiculous. most of the time we weren't doing that busy work, pulling weeds, the stupid stuff. most of the time our work around the plant was stripping the blocks and sweeping up. other than that, not a lot was asked of everyone, oh, keep your truck clean. so i wouldn't say that we were doing things that were necessarily busy work. and i didn't mind helping push a broom whatever, strip blocks, i didn't put myself above everyone else that way, if i had time to come out and help, i came out and helped. and the whole post about the $9 a day, that was aimed at the people that i used to work with that get on this forum. i didn't really think anyone else would have any clue what i was talking about and the one's that did would think i was full of crap and maybe get a good laugh out of it.
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Post by LEAD DOG on Apr 5, 2008 18:23:59 GMT -5
AT OUR COMPANY YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO 2 and OUT (work two hours and go home) or EIGHT THEN SKATE (work 8 hours doing b.s. work)
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Post by jeffintx on Apr 8, 2008 22:43:18 GMT -5
I have had enough rain days for a while. Only got in half a day today and will probably have the next two off.
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