My employer is getting desperate. And I'm making bank. by CuriousFerret < Journal

2 years, 6 months ago

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Well, While that sucks for them, I'm glad you are coming out of it much better off. And look at it this way, I think you have job security for a good while. :)

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ ToddRiverden

Just need ten years.

If anything still standing I'll be doing pretty.

Ainoko

2 years, 6 months ago

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And then there is this...

https://octoberstrike.com/

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ Ainoko

Lot of people protesting in a lot of ways over a bunch of issues.

The mass effect is breaking the order of things.

The establishment should take note before they loss control.

axlegear

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Too late. The machine's been freewheeling a bit now, it just hasn't caught on that it's lost it's traction. XD

KevinSnowpaw

2 years, 6 months ago

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you would think this would allready be happening at wally world sadly it is not there raiseng our pay slightly.. but were still under what people at target and other retail outlits simmilure to wallyworld pay. dispite haveing staffing shortages every single day...

though trucking and manufactureing are apparently were the truly MAJOR shortages are.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KevinSnowpaw

Forklift certification is not a difficult or long term investment.

Starting pay is 20 an hour most places right now in Wisconsin.

The warehouses are very short staff.

Logistic firms shortage is the reason for bottle neck supply chains.

Lot of container ships waiting for a berth to unload as dock workers short is also a factor.

axlegear

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Amazon keeps trying to hire locally here for $12.10/hr for forklift and pallet operators. XD

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ axlegear

Wisconsin still has a diminished labor union tradition and presence.

Local labor pools have an effect as well.

Want to say Alabama Amazon was going to 15 and hour and thus avoided unionization.

KevinSnowpaw

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Ive herd horror stories about forklift jobs but I might consider it XD the pays good and it's not exactly HARD labour..just tidious

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KevinSnowpaw

There are good employers out there.

National companies I have some respect for are P+G, Costco, Clorox.

Always found their warehouses well kept and staff well cared for.

axlegear

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Shame the two companies that you upped are responsible for a vast majority of all pollution sources worldwide right now.  XD  Proctor and Gamble and Clorox specifically.  XD
Clorox is one of the top 20 water consumers on the planet, of the 4 trillion m3 we use per year, they are responsible for 23 billion m3 of that.  P&G consumes a wildly estimated 8 (according to them) and 50 billion m3.
Most of this is strictly for ethanol and it's byproducts, bleaches and cleaning agents, detergents, ammonia, and refrigerants.
Roughly 70% of all water used is consumed by agriculture in general-  40% for non-human food products (mostly animal feed and ethanol, again!)  Approx. half of this is for flushing/waste expunging (right into the ocean, mostly!), ~20% evaporates or boils off, ~10% consumed as byproducts or additives, and the rest varies too much to bother ellaborating on.

Nice to hear they don't completely abuse their employees, at least!  It pisses me off when a company is triply abusive-  to the consumer, the environment, and the employees.  At least get ONE right, yanno?

Prolly the best company I worked for was IBM.  Extremely professional, but also very dedicated to fully maximizing employee potential-  not just extracting wage-hours.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ axlegear

When you lock down the market on your piece of a basic consumer good like detergents and paper products, your almost ensured to consume a staggering amount of resources like water and will leave a big pollution foot print.

Changes in how consumers buy and use such goods is how that changes.

Razrien

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KevinSnowpaw

Ayy, I work there too ~
Mostly just chill in the photo lab all day. We're getting that pay bump too, which is gonna sadly gonna make the store one of the highest paying jobs anywhere close to here.
Can't complain though. Fulltime stuff, don't hate the job, everyone I work with is super chill.

KevinSnowpaw

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ Razrien

I find the work fine the customers however are exceptionaly difficult in my location. it;s mall town, extreamly rural the only major industry supporting the town is a large factory that employs, to be frank, largly illegal migrants who speak little to know english and are drasticly different culturaly to me..so they often are very hard to assist. Add that to the fact that the rest of the people in this town are illiterate pig farmers (not even jokeing) and it makes for a toxic soup of God please.. just let me nuke this town...

I really need to move XD

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KevinSnowpaw

Look up Wonewoc WI.

That where I used to live and went to high school.

Not sure anyone is left.

Haven't check on them for years.

Eyes

2 years, 6 months ago

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this is a result of lockdowns, not anything else, the solution is just to let everyone do their own thing without interference. To leave business owners to do their own thing and smack people with .50 when they do predatory crap like cutting other people out of the economy or committing fraud in their name

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ Eyes

Before the lock downs trucking had a turn over problem, not a shortage problem.

Most big carriers had turn over rate at or near 100% before covid hit.

It was due to hard work, no increase in wages, no increase in benefits, and no advancement making it hard to hold anyone competent.

As essential services we got to work, deal with the demands runs based off fear and ignorance, ran hardered then normal to try and recover, then not get any hazard pay after the first six months.

We have been abused, and people took their unemployment plus and never came back.

The lock down was the trigger, but far from the only factor.

It has been a rotten industry for decades.

Eyes

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

oh yea the credit system has been awful for awhile now and the legal system basically exists to put down independent businesses
but it's the lack of independent businesses that caused the turnover problems, and it's gonna be bad once noone cares about lock downs if the system doesn't change to give employees more viable options
as with the gilded age, the solution is more places to work, not government control of the one place you'd be allowed to work
why offer better pay or benefits if you're the ONLY place in town?
and why obey the demands of the one company if you're a government that can just mandate them dance however you like?
Security in numbers, which is why investors and governments love having as few pets as possible

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ Eyes

There are too many companies that are basically monopolies and cartels in effect right now.

Each major consumer need is divided between two or three national sized ventures, who agree between each other on where and how much they market their product.

Its all planned out, and they all own their share of politicians ensuring no competition and as little regulation as possible.

Small buniesses simply can't compete, and rarely last more then five years before folding.

They don't have the resources to handle market and supply disruptions large corporations can.

Eyes

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

and they are all propped up by our government. i see one solution
possably two if you consider individual farming, but that doesnt solve for the larger issue asside from taking away a marginal portion of customers

AsherTye

2 years, 6 months ago

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Glad you're getting the pay you deserve (or at least feel you deserve). Hopefully your company doesn't die and you can use this to your full advantage. But if it does, be prepared to jump ship to someone who was better prepared for this changing dynamic.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ AsherTye

I've had a couple union outfits try to poach me.

Even they are feeling the pinch and forgo their normal waiting period.

LTL shipping is where its at.

Got a good CDL, 15 year, and million miles.

Casa score soild as well.

Hope to find something other then trucking at some point as I am aging a bit.

AsherTye

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Sadly I think Sam's is going the opposite route. Trying to figure out just how much of a skeleton crew they can get away with while trying to put most of the other work on the members (or have them use apps and such).

Ironically this is the exact opposite of the way Walton wanted his stores run.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ AsherTye

Not surprising they get out played by Costco.

Some corps do good buniess.

The poorly run are the ones that will die off, much like Sears did.

Feryl

2 years, 6 months ago

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My company finally got the hint & raised our pay scale to the highest in our region as well as making me the senior driver trainer. So I'm making a small fortune on training new drivers. Our main issue is that it's near impossible to find good drivers with experience & no points.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ Feryl

Similar experience with the training I did last couple years.

Lot of experienced guys got out from the ELD requirements.

Intresting results from our drug screening policy as well.

We may stop screening for marijuana as so many get kicked back for that.

Not that we should allow any under the influence while on duty, but off duty time shouldn't penalize a good driver.

moyomongoose

2 years, 6 months ago

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When I read your journal about the 5,000 semi rigs not running and lease money owed on them, I thought to myself, "It doesn't take rocket science to know those are 5,000 investments that are not paying for themselves".

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

I don't know how we're still standing honestly.

Were lossing 2 drivers a week and not able to replace to get under 100% turn over.

We're hemorrhaging office and shop staff to higher pay elsewhere.

I give it about a year maybe.

UPS is gobbling up our market share and leasing our unused trailers to do it.

We might be able to par down to 10,000 trucks or a little less.

But it's going to be nasty.

TwoTails

2 years, 6 months ago

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If I had access to (non-quack) medical care when I needed it long ago, this sorta thing sounds like one of the part time jobs I'd take up on.
But no, stuck with migraines & other nervous system issues that make it illegal to drive since I can pass out (and public transportation here is crap, etc).
Part of the family had some business that also involved cross country travel, so was used to that some.

This might be a clue as to one of the reasons why businesses have trouble hiring - too many people are in bad health.
But on top of job pay starting to not be even enough to get to work and staying up with inflation (minimal wage would be around 25/hour by now if it did), likely due to them using too much profit on the execs & stupid investments - which also could lead to distrust - some people do remember what companies did and can hold justified grudges, whether taking them down or knowing not to work for them.
Oh, also, probably too many customers & co-workers are deranged trash now that people cant stand being around.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ TwoTails

Critical mass is upon us.

Its shaking the supply chain, on top of covid issues.

I hope for positive change.

It remains to be seen if those in charge care to push it through.

TwoTails

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

It's fixable, but requires more people & businesses to acknowledge the problems.
And the stupidest businesses need to be allowed to implode - survival of the fittest time (which does not mean the greediest & most bloated, but the most aware, ready & adaptive), the equivalent dumb politicians need to go too, they're holding these cancerous fraud businesses in the way.
But of course that's the irony, need a hybrid of (classic actual)conservative & progressive ideals to do this.
Consv in need to allow bad business to fail and fire the ineffective and budget tightly, Progr in investing in the public's ability -restore health & education to just facts & training, but not BS feelings.
Those team terms are kinda BS now, so basically we need assertive wise people with effective records, something clearly forgotten.
One side cannot do this, polarization only stagnates & destroys.
So I am worried about sabotage, a certain buttmad subdivision of people are literally in Scorched Earth loser mode - they'd rather destroy everything than learn better and help fix it.

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ TwoTails

I'm always up for solution driven policy.

Anyone saying there's a simple fix to any of this is ignoring the amount of work it will take.

The biggest hurdle is getting away from mindless consumption as our economic model.

Just because something sells massively doesn't mean its sustainable or good of the market and environment.

Theres so much work on infrastructure, medical need, and educational needs, no one should be unemployed.

We waste so much potential because there isn't an immediate payout and profit alone is the goal of too many.

ArielCelestia

2 years, 6 months ago

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Congrats on become a well off fluff~

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ ArielCelestia

Its still a lot of work.

Just getting better compensation finally.

There is room for others to improve their own conditions as well that gives me a little hope.

ArielCelestia

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

Sending you my warmest of thoughts and wishes.

KimiDali

2 years, 6 months ago

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Who do you drive for and what's the region map like? I'm always looking to upgrade things :3

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KimiDali

Swift/Knight

Great lakes region.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana.

10 years experienced drivers .64 a mile.

Costco biggest account for the region.

34 hour restart on the weekend.

KimiDali

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ CuriousFerret

what would you say the crappiest load is? Also do they haul yeast? (Trying to figure out who ended up with the american yeast account after Maverick gave up reefer)

CuriousFerret

2 years, 6 months ago

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@ KimiDali

Worse ones I can think of are any of the tradeshows accounts, pulling third party trailers to Disney on ice type venues, but those are rare and volunteer only.

And potato loads or tire loads.

Tire loads you have to help unload, and potato loads are just terrible for how long they take to unload. Bad customer set up.

But none of those are on the great lake region.

D.C. to store finished goods, reefer loads for Costco.

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