Transcontinental Transporter for a Fortune 500 Company.

 

I saw an ad for USA Truck in the wrong section of the paper. I forget what they called the job. Logistics Specialist or something like that. They called it anything but "truck driver" and tried to slant the whole ad so it didn't even sound like driving a truck at all. I found that amusing. Kind of like those guys who try to get you to come sell "air filtration systems" door to door. You know, the air filtration systems that have four wheels on them, and a hose, and they filter the air that's on the floor, and remove all the spilled potting soil from it by vacuum action.

But seriously, I do wonder how long this "DM" thing has been going on. I was already a Wal-Mart "Associate" and a "freight distribution engineer" when I was calling my dispatcher a dispatcher. They snuck this one in on me somewhere along the line. Either that, or dispatchers have always been called "driver managers" for my entire career, and I missed that boat because I started off working for a small outfit with no Qualcomms, and a one-man dispatcher/fleet manager/safety department/mechanic.

 

Many companies have went to calling their load planners Logistic Specialists. A few companies are also applying this term to the sales staff who go out and try to obtain loads.

 

It's because the republicans changed the laws regarding over time.
They went into effect last year.
Used to be they had to pay dispatchers over time for over 40 but now they are managers and by being managers are exempt from over time!
You can thank the republicans for our countries demise!!!!!!!!!!!!
All these different companies can now classify different employees as managers and they are exempt from paying them over time.
Now all these people have to work more hours for less pay.
Why do you think the economy is supposedly so good, because companies have beenable to improve the bottom loine by deregulation.

Only thing regulated now are the working class.

My dispatchers are now managers too and are suppose to handle all our affairs, but they only have time to dispatch!
We still have to contact all the various deprtments to do any thing.

We got a memo saying dispatchers are driver managers now and will do it all for us.
Bullcrap. they only have time to dispatch and fuel programs stops.

This has been a big conspiracy for a while now.
If you had a company that went from paying over time to not paying and able to eliminate health care , andcuts so many of the operating costs they had to pay before your stocks would soar too.
The working class is taking it in the ass while companies are recording ecord profits thanks to the like of bush and his cronis.
They all sceam the economy is doing good, well it is for business but not workers!!!!!!!!!!!!

People are getting such a royal scewing now it's unbelievable.
All the years of democrats gaining better conditions , benefits, and pay have been given back by the republicans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'll stay out of the political side of it, but I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I remember this. It wasn't that long ago, maybe a year or so. There was a lot of noise about who could be on salary, and who couldn't. The idea was supposed to be getting people off of salary who were getting screwed out of overtime, but it's not hard to believe the end result was that companies cooked up a whole new load of ways to officially and legitimately pay their employees on salary, and screw them out of overtime.

None of which affects us so much one way or the other. We've been getting screwed since time immemorial. Being FLSA-exempt means we have absolutely ZERO legal guarantee of EVER getting paid a red cent for anything we do. Our time has no value. Leave us sitting for 70 hours at a rathole in West Memphis, and who cares. We get paid because we will quit if we don't, but there is nothing else to back that up.

That's why our wages keep going down and down and down. More people are willing to do more for free, or for less money, and there's nothing we can do about it, because we just have to be grateful they deign to pay us anything for our effort at all.

There, I'll see your Republicans rant, and raise you a Being Exempt from the FLSA is :dung: rant.

Laissez les bontemps rouller!

 

actually the laws that govern overtime for salaried mangers has been in effect for years so you cant blame that on bush.

 

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

 

The new name for the zit faced kid who pumps your gas at Sunoco is now a "Petroleum Distribution Engineer"

 

Hey, I resemble that remark, sans pimples, sans "kid". Really, while working full time as a pressman, I had a part time job pumping gas. Made $10/hr too. Thanks to the great state of Oregon, it's still against the law to pump your own gas. Got called a "Fuel Jockey" once by an ignorant woman that was upset when I told her I was too busy to wash her windows. I told her this was a fuel station, not a service station. If she wanted service, go pay for it at one of Bush's Stations!
Glad to be a Inventory Relocation Specialist now and will gladly jockey my own fuel from now on.

 

Can to blame bush , got mud, he is the one that signed the bill to extend that law to apply to who ever business wanted it to, via a burger flipper is now a burger flipper manager, hence exempt from over time, duh!