To Whom It May Concern

Random Thoughts On The Highway

I spend a lot of time driving around at work. I am still doing the whole windshield delivery thing, but I hope to get into something else sometime in November, but for now just to be working and supporting myself is good enough. There are several reasons why I'm going to move on from this job though.

I find myself yelling at other drivers more than I ever have before, now this doesn't mean I'm actually leaning out my window and yelling obscenities at them and giving them the middle finger (well, not usually anyways, most often I reserve that sort of behavior for family and co-workers). But I sit in the cab of my truck and silently mutter under my breath about the ignorance and stupidity of other drivers. What is bad about this is that the things those drivers are doing are things that I do in my own car when I'm not at work, so what right do I have to be that way? Although, there are some especially bad drivers that I reserve the most vehement attitudes for, those that are out and out dangerous and those that are just purely stupid. I tend to be an aggressive driver in my own vehicle but that doesn't necessarily make me a bad driver. But when I find myself driving the company vehicle sometimes like I would my own then there in lies a problem.

Another reason is the heavy lifting. Now, a windshield in and of itself is not all that heavy, well, some are, but most aren't too bad. But when you are lifting them while standing way up in a cage on a forklift it's precarious and twice now I've thrown my back out doing it. Plus at the end of the day I go and try to work out, be it running a few miles or doing a couple hundred push ups and situps, and I find myself tiring very easily.

I could also attribute that last part to the rampant cigarette smoking that goes on at work, I can't handle being around that, it makes my eyes hurt and I would swear it contributes to me having a sore throat and ear aches too. Add in the fact that there is no upward mobility within the company, and that the company doesn't give a crap about it's employees (we were on 410 days or so without an lost time injury at work, and there is supposed to be a pizza party every 100 days, and no pizza was ever given, no party either), put it all together and I realize I should begin looking for employment elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, I like the people, for the most part anyways. One tends to be really lazy, but I can handle that for the most part. It's rare I've ever worked anywhere where I actually got along with everyone I worked with.

A little side note, I have noticed the "YELLOW" fleet trucks out on the interstate, and one question comes to mind. Why isn't that company called "ORANGE"??? The truck is NOT yellow, that is for sure, it's a very, very orange shade. Anyways, just a random rambling there.