My current job is having me fill out authorized driver stuff (they're requiring me to have really protective car insurance for my 95% remote job, which is weird, but beside the point). But filling this paperwork out has made me reflect on a car crash I got into a little more than a year ago.
My last job asked me to do an atypical errand on a specific day. I was to bring paperwork to a coworker's house in a city about 30 minutes away from where I live. This already irked me because my coworker truly could have gotten the paperwork from our office herself – especially since the paperwork had to do with her position and not mine.
ANYWAY, while I'm driving home I also have a zoom meeting that I'm required to attend. I explain to them I'm driving, that the weather is very bad (February, snowy, slippery in Michigan), so I'll just be listening with my camera off. That's when I hit some black ice, spin out from the left lane and crash all the way into the wall on the right side of the freeway. Thank god I didn't hit anyone else. My car was totaled though lol.
This is all to say, I never was asked to fill out any sort of paperwork, was never inquired about my car insurance, there was no authorized driver SOP given to me (probably didn't exist), and never asked to take a defensive driving webinar (which, is a little overkill, but still) like my current job is having me do.
I took a couple days of unpaid time off following the crash but other than that, I treated it like a personal problem. Were there any grounds to have gotten my job involved? Were they liable for any part of the crash? This is out of pure curiosity, thanks!
P.S. I realize there are a lot of variables at play like potential driver error, extent of hands-free driving, the weather which was uncontrollable, black ice, etc. Hoping this can just spur an interesting conversation about driving and the workplace and not necessarily a scrutiny of what happened (since it's very much over with and I have a new car and job now, woohoo).