Day 3:
Orientation is over!
I am officially hired and (more importantly) pay-rolled
I have a stack of papers 2 inches thick and will meet my trainer in 2 hours. I will be driving a kenworth
for my training on a dedicated coors run. I also met my fleet manager who is pretty cool. It was really cool to see a driver call in with something and watch as my dispatcher went to the right people and found out what was going on and got the issue resolved right away.
One of the other drivers husband got injured on the job and they will not let him ride along as a passenger, the wife got into an argument over this with the person she was dealing with and that person yelled at and talked down to the driver. The driver went and talked to someone else and the first person got disciplined for inappropriate behavior.
All the people we talked to really emphasized safety and gave us direct extensions to talk to them if we had issues with something. This is really different from the last place I worked that claimed to be open door but didn't want to deal with you. There is a huge feeling here that if I need to talk to someone about something I really can go right to them. Many of the different departments have a macro on the qualcom where you can send a message right to them and it does not have to be relayed through the dispatcher. All of the people I have worked with have been awesome so far.
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Cockroach