Finished my commercial route at 1500 today. They wanted everyone to call in and one area of guys was going out with 500+ stops. Call in chat with the office get told they had ORSs from other centers come out to help those guys. I figured they would send me out there even though it's an hour drive from my area.
They didn't. They started dicking me around. I sat there until 1530 waiting after calling several times they were "trying" to figure out who I could go help. Around then another driver I know from a different building and center got home, he lives near where I was waiting so he came over to chat. Says peak for his center has been one of the easiest ever. He's barely gotten any overtime. I tell him I almost hit seventy last week. Finally get my ODS to go help some guy.
Give him a call he says he's got about an hour of work left.
It will take me 45 minutes to get to him. Trek him merry Christmas and call the office again. Wait fifteen more minutes they ODS me out three other guys to call. Call em all, wait, call again, wait, one of em calls me back. I head out to meet him. It's 1615 it took them an hour and fifteen minutes to set me up with someone to actually help.
He has forty stops left in a super easy resi area I take half and finish in twenty minutes. It's now 1650 call the office. They tell me they'll call me back after they figure out who I can help. At 1720 thirty minutes later, thirty minutes of playing on my phone I call again. No, they haven't forgotten about me they just aren't sure who I can help. Keep waiting they say.
I sit there until 1750 and call again. Come on in they say. I'm the third guy back.
WTF?
As I'm leaving I see a huge line of guys getting back. I figure they were dicking me around so I wouldn't get back way before other guys but it didn't make any sense for me to drive an hour to meet someone do five stops and drive an hour back.
Merry Christmas brothers