I’ve been going through this. Every time I’m “assigned” to a driver. They switch me at the last minute. But this particular day I ended up waking up late (exhausted from previous work day with this constant 5 in the morning so I gotta wake up at 4; end up spending 13 hours or more by myself) and then I thought the person I was riding with or driving was gone. So I hopped in with another driver since I was about to leave and go ask who am I goin’ to be with. But the driver was like “shit, you can come with me and we knock this on out.” And so I did since he was pissed how his route looked.
Got called many hours later on where I was at. I told them who I was with. Now explain this to me. How does me being with one person a hindrance on the schedule when I get switched every second? But me making the choice to just go with someone who have more stops would be a problem. Mind you, I’m not a main driver or have my own route. So that just made me realize that the people I work with were right about this job. They like to play around but when it comes to equipment malfunctions and certain avenues we come across, it’s “do what you gotta do” when we call them.