My first trucking job I was coming back into Canada, expecting to deliver my back haul on my way back to my yard, drop my truck/trailer, and go home for a few days. Get a call from my dispatch asking to deliver that load, then load back up 30 minutes away and head back into the states for a few days. I basically told him no, my expectations for the next few days, my wife and spending time and blah blah. He had the fucking gall to say to me “You’re not much of a team player, are you, PhoenixDog”. I literally replied to him on the phone “Nope, I’m not. My home life is more important than this. I’m delivering this load and going home”.
I did just that and didn’t speak to him until I went back in for my next week of travel to which he apologized, but that still sat with me until I left the company later that year.
Those are fighting words. Like, mount-the-conference-table-with-shoes-on-and-kick-that-manager-in-the-chin-with-skull-crushing-followthrough kinds of fighting words.
It sounds like you aren’t being a team player, let’s put a pin on this discussion and circle back around after lunch
My first trucking job I was coming back into Canada, expecting to deliver my back haul on my way back to my yard, drop my truck/trailer, and go home for a few days. Get a call from my dispatch asking to deliver that load, then load back up 30 minutes away and head back into the states for a few days. I basically told him no, my expectations for the next few days, my wife and spending time and blah blah. He had the fucking gall to say to me “You’re not much of a team player, are you, PhoenixDog”. I literally replied to him on the phone “Nope, I’m not. My home life is more important than this. I’m delivering this load and going home”.
I did just that and didn’t speak to him until I went back in for my next week of travel to which he apologized, but that still sat with me until I left the company later that year.
Those are fighting words. Like, mount-the-conference-table-with-shoes-on-and-kick-that-manager-in-the-chin-with-skull-crushing-followthrough kinds of fighting words.