I'm a truck driver and last week they couldn't get me home on time for Thanksgiving, even though I told them 3 weeks ahead of time when I needed to be home by, I missed my whole family event because of this.
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving I was told I couldn't deliver the load anymore because they're shut down on Thanksgiving and to go ahead and head home then deliver the load Monday, then after I deliver the load I can drive home again and enjoy the remainder of my time off.
The thing is, I spend 3-4 weeks at a time over the road driving all over the country before going home for a week and I'm working 60-70hr weeks on top of this.
I had to drive 5-6 hours off route to get home. If I had agreed to head out Monday (today), then I would have lost 2 days of my earned time off because the company trucks are slow, there's major traffic in that area, plus the customer might take their sweet time to unload my truck.
I told them I wasn't going to spend Fri-Sun home, then leave out to deliver the load, then come back, only to leave out the following Thursday. I told them I'm taking an extra day off regardless since I'm missing Thanksgiving and that I would leave the following Friday morning to deliver the load.
My manager seemed upset but then agreed, but today they tried texting me on my time off even though I've told them already to not text me on my time off. What are they texting me for? They're asking if I'm going to deliver that load today. I'm ignoring their text until Thursday and I'm enjoying my time off.
Today I'm going to call another company that I'm planning to leave them for who I heard has a good reputation, so wish me luck! Thanks for reading this if you did.