Update on son stuck in Ft Worth....job not working out, staying until Friday and driving home
Locust Fork
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I don't understand the way this company does things....but I'm somewhat glad it didn't work out if this is the way they handle things. He told me he was let go yesterday because he refused to drive his truck to a job they were sending him to. They had planned to put equipment on his truck and he would have owed the company $6,000 when he left there. The jobs he has gone on for training he was picked up and was with a crew of people. Its terrible out there, the roads are closed and he is in an unfamiliar area. He was watching people skid around the parking lot when he told them he couldn't drive. Their answer was to "be out of the hotel room by noon." He was pretty shocked at first, but seems to be relieved now. He was supposed to have a metal rack installed on his truck and some equipment they would charge him $6000 for, but that hadn't happened yet. He is supposed to be getting paid for this trip....hopefully that is true. I'm trying to stay out of it as much as possible and let him make his decisions. He is going to stay out there until Friday when the weather is supposed to be better and try to start the 11 hour drive home.
This has been a crazy adventure for him...not fun at all.
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Best to find out fast if you are working for a *.
I don't know how bad he needs a job, but me personally, I would never "pay" someone $6000. to go to work for them, agree sounds like he found out before he got in to deep.......
Yep, sounds like there is a lot we don't know about this "job". Don
Forcing a newbie to drive around on ice covered roads on his first week on the job?
Stupid boss. He is smart to get out now. This tells you that the company holds the drivers in contempt.
Time to find another job.
If nothing else it sounds like it may have been a valuable learning experience.
Hope he makes it home safe and sound.
I didn't get the full rundown on this thing before he left. He told me about it three days before he had to head out. It was an overhead garage door company, they have a big internet presence so I felt ok about him leaving to go for "job training."
From what I can tell, they have an AP that the workers check for jobs and the supplies are kept on the trucks (that the workers own.) I don't understand how a company can run where your employees are totally independent. It sounds like a manly version of the Mary Kay makeup nightmare.....you just buy this pink suitcase full of goo and go harass your friends, you'll be rich!
his truck his insurance I will bet they way they look at it . my guess the company has lost too much installing such items to never see the driver or truck again so maybe why they want paid up front . I could understand that would I do it no
unless they would refund the money as sort of a deposit on there equipment after a year to make sure your going to stay refund it
but my feelings no way tell them to pound sand and hit the road lots of jobs out there .
The song goes "I owe my soul to the company store" for a reason. Big yikes on that job and glad to hear he got out of that mess.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Ummm- ain't got a dog is this fight, but this sure as hell sounds like Fly By Night Enterprises, Inc. Rather than being an "employee", some places call their workers "independent contactors". Issues with Worker's Comp. His personal auto insurance will either not cover him for business usage, or bump his rates. It stinks really bad.
As they said in the movie- "Run Forrest, run!"
Lessons learned early in life come back to pay huge dividends down the road. He got off relatively easy and will learn from this experience.
LF, I enjoy teasing you, but your son is lucky to have such a supportive mother. My own mother has supported me in everything I have done. Whatever I've achieved in my life I owe to her.
This job has an odor whifting up from it that smells very much like the scent one smells driving by a very large hog setup!! Chme may have said it perfectly "Fly By Night Enterprises". Their attorneys are probably named something like Screwem, Stickem and Slickem!!!
Yep, sorry it did not work out, but that is better in the long run IMO. I have worked most of my working life in the timber industry, and I been porked by the best. The second you said he had to supply his own pickup, I knew there was a porking coming down the pike.
Thank you!
He's my youngest, the only boy....and he was a LOT sweeter to me as a child than the girls were. So, I probably need a bit of teasing or I might just never let the poor guy spread his wings.
When you first posted about his new job a lot of flags went up. Some companies like this work out okay but many of them don't. They are looking for the most return with the least investment so they lay a lot of liability onto the employee/contractor.
He'll land on his feet with experience gained.