This was mainly referring to delivery drivers.
I know a couple UPS drivers that deliver rural routes. They do this because they don’t want to waste the time to drive to a bathroom that will add an hour+ to their day. They would still get paid for that time, but they also still need to deliver their packages.
And they get paid well and overtime doing it.
I also know many long haul truckers that do similar things. If the wheels aren’t turning they aren’t making any money so they don’t stop unless they have too. Especially now with the automatic trucker’s logs that force them to stop at 14 hours on the road (before they could lie on the logbook pretty easily).
So again, a cog is someone with a boss? Or what? The definition seems to change a lot. And i bet you do have a boss. Bills that need to be paid, life that needs to be supported in general.
Can you please coherently define a cog?
Don’t hold your breath brainwashed rube.
I drove truck in my younger years
i pulled over into a rest stop, fast food place, gas station, park or the woods
i was never forced to piss in bottles or shit in bags…therefore i call b.s.
I would surely consider taking a vessel to piss in if I were driving a delivery route. But a dump would need a stop. Who would feel pissing in a bottle for convenience is degrading?
Some people “piss and moan” about anything.
If the company is successful their quotas are calculated, either from past data or route calculations, but not arbitrary.
What about pushing the envelope?
Yes then I guess those reports were just made up. Did you drive for Amazon?
Incredibly weak answers. You are obviously reaching here.
So this makes it okay? They choose to shit in bags. What about the other workers who piss in water bottles.
Nope that’s just human nature. Read a history textbook or any psychology 101 text book.
People would rather bitch and complain than take action. Because it’s simply easier to do.
I’ve pissed in quite a few water bottles myself.
Haven’t shit in a bag though.
I’m with everyone else. If you hate it so much or don’t like it, do something else. I’ve loaded trucks at UPS and worked at Walmart years ago. Both jobs sucked ass, but guess what? I didn’t quit until I had something else and those jobs showed me I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life.
So, I worked hard and sought other routes. Went to school while working 40+ hours a week. I don’t have any sympathy - sorry not sorry. Go fuck yourself.
Pretty much. I used to unload furniture trucks for a warehouse, wash dishes at a bar, sell used cars (absolutely horrible), work at target. Working those places is the reason I made sure I got myself a grad school education (also found a company to pay for grad school - it wasn’t really that hard) and into a position where I didn’t have to due stupid crap like that.
I will never forget the day the pulled a couch down from over my head in a cargo container from China and got showered with dead cockroaches…
My dad always told me, “Son, it’s always easier to get a job when you have a job.”
When you start at Walmart - you usually start in maintenance, which is basically cleaning the nastiest bathrooms imaginable and scraping gum off the floor daily as well as cleaning up all the messes people leave.
You learn to always have gloves, a mask, acetone, and lots of disinfectant close by.
But guess what? In under a year I had moved to lead in sporting goods to lead in the UPC office to being pushed to manager training. When I left I was making over $20 an hour. I started at $8.25. Mind you this was early 2000s. I did not want to work at Walmart long term, so I had no interest in going into management training there.
If you show up on time every shift and do a good job, you move up quickly. The turnover rate at that particular store was around 68% while I was there for 2.5 years (one of the lowest in the country for Walmart).
This is true. I have taken some leaps of “faith”, but I was always confident in succeeding or at least surviving.
It worked out well.
Oh no, you worked at a bar.
Yes - while I was a teenager in high school and needed a part time gig.
Not a full ass grown adult with (supposedly) a college education as my primary means of income.
And he was smart enough not to get fired
Definitely wasn’t a cog.
I’m sure it does to you.