First they reduced my hours to 32 a week. I usually managed to get the 32, sometimes 34 to 35. It's fairly hard to control hours when you drive for a living. It's not like I have a stationary position with a clock and time card to punch. I can't control what happens at the customers or yards I work in or dump at, flat tire issues and the time at repair shops, then there's traffic.

About 2 months in to this they give me a 40 hour time frame to work on. Rarely hit 40 but went over a couple of times. 3/4 of an hour over last week. I guess a couple of other drivers have done so also. My dispatcher, Alexis, tells me something about 1 or 2 Columbus drivers. So the company is bitching at Brenna about this. Brenna is the head dispatcher in Wooster. So now after about 2 months they are knocking me back down to 32.

I've bitched about this here before. I'm making to much to get unemployment and working to many hours to get the additional $600 that has put many people who usually make less than me now make more than me. I get it, I really get it. Great for them! But I'm going backwards!

So yesterday Alexis tells me to get a hold of Alaska and ask him about how he and Kenny get the additional $600 as she tells me I'm going back to 32 and don't actually get the 32. See, Alaska is Brenna's husband, and him and Kenny work at the Wooster yard. My company, PSC, bought the Wooster yard and the trucking company that worked for them back then from Brenna and Alaska. The trucking company anyways. Kenny is the head over site of the transportation aspect in our NE Ohio area and Alaska does various aspects of the same and repair and maintenance with Kenny. They were dropped to 29 hours a week back when this shit all hit the fan each working a 4 day week. See where this is going now?

I didn't quite get from Alexis if they are actually get unemployment also, but they are getting the additional $600 because they are only working 29 hours or less. Here's the 4X4 upside my head though. The reason the company is bitching at Brenna for drivers going over 40 hours isn't really about a few hours of overtime pay, it's because they lose money the government pays them to keep our hours down. Well, I guess it could be a little about one and a lot about the other. And I guess I have to consider whether the government is setting this initiative or if the company is simply using it to get the money. Either way there's an initiative to keep me from reaching my full potential for the company that the company can benefit from by kicking me while I'm down. So between the government and the company there's an initiative to keep workers from working and making money while they publicly claim they want workers to go back to work. They are purposely creating lower income jobs and poverty.

Who owns my company? A multi billionaire named Carl Icahn. I'm sure many here have heard of him. Known for being a corporate raider and Trump supporter. This is what I'm dealing with

I hope your companies have more respect for you than mine does for me!