Well, if you are willing to shift into a more positive frame of mind, there are things you can do to improve your circumstances while you wait to deliver.
I enjoy hanging out in FedEx facilities when the opportunity presents itself. The break rooms are usually graced with training materials, safety brochures, posters and company propaganda.
The training materials are especially useful. Because we are independent contractors who lease our trucks to a non-asset carrier, we don't receive this good information like employees do. To protect our independent contractor status, FDCC is careful -- perhaps too careful -- about providing us with training materials.
I have learned a lot about our carrier's parent company and about best practices for truck drivers by reading break room materials when "stuck" at a sister company facility.
The people we communicate with in Green get the same propaganda. The more you learn the language and phrases they use, the more they will listen to you when you speak their language.
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I am feeling so VERY purple today!
(Written while wearing contractor apparel)
