Since it’s pushing 10 a.m. and no one has called yet. This is the first day someone hasn’t called since I started working three weeks ago. Possible explanations, listed from most likely to least likely, include:
- Corporate found someone who lives closer to the route I was working to take it over this week, and neglected to reassign me to a new route
- The driver is sick. He was coughing a lot at the end of last week. Work would then be spread around among several of the other drivers close to the area, eliminating the need for me today
- The driver picked up on my thinly-veiled contempt for him and asked for a new lackey
- Someone made the connection between me and my weblog, which could easily happen if Corporate monitors its employee’s surfing habits since web stats tell me at least one reader views this site from UPS computers
- There wasn’t enough work today (pah! The Media tells us this is the busiest shipping day of the year).
Seriously though. How sad would it be if I couldn’t hold down this job? That would put a nice little exclamation point on the year.
UPDATE: What a jackass. He called the wrong person. Just a second ago…
DRIVER: Hey Russell, are you still coming?
ME: Still coming? Nobody ever called me.
DRIVER: I thought I talked to you about an hour ago.
ME: Nope, nobody ever called me.
DRIVER: Well, do you still want to come?
ME: (fighting the obvious temptation to make a dirty joke) No, it’s probably a little late at this point. I can definitely work tomorrow though.
DRIVER: Okay.
Seriously. If I left now, I wouldn’t be out there until 12:30 or 1, which means I’d be working until 9 or 10 at night. No fucking way with this weather being as cold as it is for as little money as they’re offering.
UPDATE 2: Who the hell did he talk to if it wasn’t me? Will some other lackey be forced to stand around in the cold waiting for a driver to show up only to be disappointed when none does?
