OH BOY! Mine is a tough area to cover anyhow, lots of midnight road number sign shootings, posts being taken away and replaced with a dead Bud Light packs & a few empties. More often than trying to determine what the address they have on the front of the box, you just know that it's Bob's kid who hooked up with the girl from the internet, and this must be her name.
Anyhow, I went away to Mexico for two weeks, and when I came back on Monday, they sent a 3/4 full 800, and my regular tail-load on the 1000, and I'm in a Sprinter! I was a victim of this big time. The fellow who brings my load to me, told me that they had easily pulled 40 to 50 pkgs out of his 500 that he just couldn't get to on Friday. No service crosses, nothing. The kicker was, on top of all of the extra work that Monday, the rest of the week, I had to do about 8 driver follow-ups for misdelivered pkgs, and hear everyone who had any attractive female employees complain about how he'd just come by with no package & hang around for an hour or so. At least five way bad routes (lots of miles up a canyon), I had handed to me at a business with the explination "he said you'd take this when you came in", two of which were vaccines, that were over a week old that I just returned. I did get a look at his Friday WOR, 38 stops, and 112 miles, not bad since my average is 85-90 stops & 250 miles.
I was amazed to find out that for all the complaints, and missed pkgs, against the WOR, management just shrugged it off as "it's just Rob". He's only been back on my route twice, but when I heard it was him covering for me, I made it a point to meet him at the car while returning from a stop, and made my intentions crystal clear regarding the consequences should he decide to pull that crap again. I explained that I expected him to work out here, and that when they sent him out here it wasn't his personal trim hunt. So far, so good.....
And yes, the names have been changed to protect the ignorant. Probably should have changed Rob to "Dick" though.
