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« on: August 20, 2014, 07:50:55 pm »
TODAY FUCKING SUCKS! AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!
I show up for work at my normal time and am told (after I had already logged in, of course) that my load would not be ready for an hour. I can't get a different one, nosiree, so I resign myself to wait.
An hour passes, nothing. Another 30 minutes. 15 more. I'm about ready to just go home when the load finally arrives. The long wait combined with regular pre-trip inspection of the trailer means I get underway two hours late.
So I finally arrive, unload, and send a message asking about the status of my return trailer. I'm expecting it to be 30 minutes out, an hour. Hell, it wasn't impossible for it to have already arrived.
As of about fifteen minutes ago, it was roughly 150 miles away. Given the steep mountain ranges and heavy traffic I'm looking at a 3+ hour wait.
Oh, and I get paid for none of this waiting.
A part of me wants to simply take off, but I already promised that I would wait 3 hours. The dispatcher, entirely failing to understand my situation and not being at all grateful that I didn't simply respond with a hearty "fuck you" and took off, merely admonished me to "plz be patient". Easy to be patient when you sit at a computer desk and get paid by the hour, I guess.