‘I quit... taking the techs with me’: Fleet foreman quits after new manager takes over, leading to rest of employees jumping ship en masse

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    Tire - Fleet Inspections I left the company and the techs followed to work for me at another company. We all made sure to let them know it was because of him. Not a month later, a driver reached out and told me they fired him.
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    Font - Fleet Inspections M OC I used to be the foreman at a food distribution company with a fleet of about 100 units in total. Every quarter, there was a "document inspection" that essentially made sure that all the legal paperwork was together in case DOT ever pulled a unit over.
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    Font - Each technician needed to be clocked on to a repair order for each job they would work on. This made it easy to track time to measure efficiency but more importantly how much time was spent on each unit in a certain timeframe. (If any unit had high labor times, it would go to considerations to retire it)
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    Font - And for our quarterly inspections, I would make a generic "document inspection" repair order to knock out all of them in one shot. Instead of going back and forth to clock off one and clock into another. Easy, right?
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    Font - The company made a position called "Director of Transportation” and the guy they hired had no concept of time management. We butted heads quite a bit because he liked to micromanage things that really didn't matter. I'd give examples but it would drag this on. Anyway, he was adamant
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    Font - about making a repair order for EVERYTHING. (Even sent an email DEMANDING this is to be done) And after explaining the complexity of his request, he waved me off like I was a peasant. So I made a repair order for one unit, walked to the truck, checked all the paperwork,
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    Font - walked back, noted the work done and closed it. I did this for EVERY SINGLE UNIT ON THE YARD. He had over 100 repair orders and over 9 hours of labor to do something that usually takes about 2 hours if you do it all at once. I was called into his office the next day. He then wanted to
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    Font - write me up for "insubordination". I asked to have a member from HR present. When they showed up I showed her the email chain of what he wanted. There was nothing he could do. He literally asked me to do it that way.
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    Font - I left the company and the techs followed to work for me at another company. We all made sure to let them know it was because of him. Not a month later, a driver reached out and told me they fired him.
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    Font - schmidie 14 14 hr. ago I love it when someone convinces a group of workers to jump ship en masse from one company to another. Vote Reply
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    Font - grauenwolf 14 hr. ago This is why 360 reviews and exit interviews are so important. Had they been using them, they could have seen the problem and taken corrective action before their skill walked out the door. 4 Vote Reply Share
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    Font - tarlton 10 hr. ago In my last exit interview, I convinced the head of HR she should quit too. Vote Reply Share grauenwolf 10 hr. ago That's glorious. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Cfwydirk 12 hr. ago He had over 100 repair orders and over 9 hours of labor to do something that usually takes about 2 hours if you do it all at once. You can check 100 trucks documents in two hours? Bravo! Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Inner_Cherry4149 OP. 12 hr. ago Yeah you just go from one to the next and note what units need which document. Then print the documents when you get back in the shop. And throw em in the binders. It's mind boggling how he thought that wasn't efficient. The units are all parked next to each other how is it not lol Vote Reply Share
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    Font - AnEvilMathematician 3 hr. ago Umm. Please tell me the malicious compliamce in this. (this is where I paste original post) (coded f-month, #2) Vote Reply Share
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    Font - BobsUrUncle303-5 hr. ago Sad how they always fire the mangler only after all of the actual workers quit. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - paulalientje 29 min. ago I need to get my eyes checked. I read feet inspection Vote Reply Share
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    Font - CoderJoe1 14 hr. ago He certainly made his mark. Vote Reply Share

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