Unceremoniously quitting after 5 years
I’ve worked at the same dispatch for 5 years now. I was one of their top drivers. I ran, turned it into exercise and had fun with it. I was consistent, worked 5 days for overtime, organized the company fantasy football league (at my home) and genuinely considered many of them friends.
The last quarter or so we’ve had a new dispatch. Who is absolutely awful. She is late daily, freaks out on drivers and as a result people stopped showing up for her shifts. This resulted in my routes becoming unmanageable. But because I was good I was told “I could handle it”. But eventually enough was enough and I reached out to my head dispatch about concerns; and got no response. Nothing. On a particularly nasty route late in the evening (10 hours into my shift) I ran a stop sign on a residential street. I came back to a write up with a 2 week suspension. Enough was enough. I quit. Within a day I had found a new dispatch around the corner and onboarding should be faster than my suspension.
But what shocked me was how indifferent they were. All I wanted was to be treated like everyone else instead of the company mule. They couldn’t even dignify me with a response when I quit. Fuck this place. Don’t ever forget no matter who you are in this job, that you are just a number, and that you are absolutely replaceable; true or not.