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Appreciation post: the route supervisor who told me to stop taking every extra shift
I drive a delivery truck out of a depot in Columbus, and about two months ago I was grabbing a sandwich with my route supervisor, Dale, a guy who has been doing this for 22 years. I was bragging about picking up a sixth shift that week, mostly because I felt like I had to say yes to everything. He put his sandwich down and asked me how long I planned to run on fumes. I gave him some dumb answer about paying down my truck. He said "a driver who shows up tired is worse than a driver who calls in." That hit me harder than it should have, partly because I had been treating my job like a contest instead of a career I actually want to keep. I went home and looked at my pay stubs and realized the extra shifts were adding about $90 a week while I was sleeping maybe five hours a night. So I cut back to my normal four days and started asking Dale how he lasted this long instead of how many hours he could stack.
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charlesm528d ago
Sounds like the guy just told you what any boss with half a brain would say to keep a good driver from burning out. Ninety bucks a week isn't nothing, but framing this as some big life lesson feels like a stretch.
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