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[a_muse_d]

Didn't work Monday.
Worked 9.25hrs yesterday.
Didn't get a call last night for dispatch today.
Went into work at semi-regular time this morning
anyway.
They put someone else in my truck today.
Sharing the work with other drivers.

They SAID this is the busy time of year
and that we'd be working probably
six days a week until late September.

uh.

So, now that unemployment is fucked, I'm working part-time,
not making as much as I was on unemployment.
Scrambling to find another job that will put me to work
full-time.

Should be easy, it only took me a year and eight months
to get this one.

/rant

On the plus side...

It's always easier to find another job if one is working.
(I still have this job)
I have gained knowledge and experience
driving ten wheel and super-dump trucks.

I has 'sperience.

Just looking on the bright side
because this much is true.


Onward.

Comments

[duccio]

That's not so good, but, besides them telling you work would be 6 days/week, maybe with everything else going on with all the cuts down the road and the FAA out of business, it is not so surprising. The fact that they are not laying people off but attempting to keep everybody on sort of means they expected/expect the work to pick up again, and that they feel you are a good addition to the driver crew and don't want to lose you - which means that if other jobs are out there, you are qualified, good at it from a management standpoint, and 'sperienced. Being the last hired, you would be the first fired. They have decided not to go that route. Maybe it is not as bad as it seems. Still, it doesn't seem so good, them screwing up your unemployment and all. Best wishes.

How is the band doing. Are all the other members doing OK with their day jobs? Maybe there are some jobs out there for the band. Pretty soon there might be big strikes and protests. Maybe that would be an opportunity for the band. You guys should learn Joe Hill, Solidarity Forever, This Land is Your Land, and always my favorite: L'Internationale... go out there and stir up the masses to action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibrVBAooRk&feature=related

[a_muse_d]

I went out and completely spun my wheels (no pun intended and as far as I can tell, but, who the fuck knows) for several hours today hunting down dump truck outfits to apply to. eh.

I know they don't want to lose me, but I pretty seriously need to work. My roof leaks and I was really looking forward to working hard this summer to get enough money to replace it. As it stands, I'm just barely treading water unless more work comes in.

It's a small company, one of the drivers ROLLED one of the trucks last week, totaling it. He's lucky to be alive. I keep meaning to take a pic of it before it goes away but you know.

There's always something with a large or small trucking business to drain income,
and this is a small company that sub-contracts jobs from major contractors and is at the beck and call and whim of such opportunities. Or, as my dad calls it, a "Gyppo" outfit.

If you know what I mean.


The band has taken some time off since just after our gig. Drummer had a gig with people he's been playing with for longer than he has with us, last weekend I had scheduled to attend Centaur Guitar's weekend of more than 20 bands playing back to back both days. It was pretty sweet, but ate up my entire weekend. I'd been looking forward to it for months. Bass player spaced on our practice last night, but we all get together tomorrow evening for a full short practice. School night and all. Sunday is on, as well.

I don't foresee any big strikes or protests of magnitude in this country for the following reasons:

too scared
too comfortable
too clueless as to the enourmity of the current situation
disinterest


etc.


in a nut shell