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What goes around doesn't come anround......I've unfortunately discovered this the hard way, read the story below to find out why....

Saturday 7th April 2012

So i've totally come to the conclusion that good things don't always come to those who wait, and that I have been well and truly taken for a ride. The unfortunate part is that I know I'm being taken for a ride but still stubbornly refuse to give in cos i really really really want my lorry back!!!

Let me explain:

In the summer or 2010, I and the rest of my co-workers were unfortuantely and very quickly made redundant (this story can be read in the Archive links section)
Many people were quickly offered their jobs back once the company was fortunately taken over. It was however a different story for us lorry drivers and we were kept hanging in limbo for several months, not knowing if we should go and find another job or not, although I did keep myself occupied with some agency driving.

However, one devious driver who'd only been with the company for a year decided rather than wait politely as instructed that he would weedle his way back in and take the one lorry driver job, despite that fact that the rest of us had been there for years!!

He did unfortunately have a bargaining chip in the form of his own operators licence as he also ran other businesses on the side. He used his licence to help tide the new company over until they had reapplied for their own in the new company name. Ok so far, I would have been unable to do this anyway.

He also stated that he would be retiring soon as he was 66 at the time. Time to bring the Pasty back....yes indeed, i was invited back to fill in with another job until the retirement time of April 2011. Not a problem, i felt sure I could handle 5 months of lugging crates of paper to outworkers up and down their 2 flights of stairs every day for 10 hours....simply because I'm a hero!!

So April came and went, and the lorry driver continued to drive, suddenly insisting he actually had no intention of retiring at all and now the new rule had been bought in so that older workers could not be made to retire, he was now untouchable!!

This is when i started to realise I'd been had - I was currently losing more weight than I was able to put on by running around constantly carrying heavy crates of paper - I'd even begun to get those horrible veins showing in my arms. I decided to ask once more if the driver was thinking of retirement (in a nice polite way of course). At this point it got evil and I was basically told that there was no way he was going to let me have my job back!!

Unaware of what I'd done to piss him off so much despite being a girl who could drive lorries better than him (not my words!!) I carried on with my job from hell, until it simply got too much for me and I decided to hand in my notice and take up one of the other offers of employment I'd had.

My Employer however seemed reluctant to let me go and basically invented a job for me to make me stay, suggesting that it probably wouldn't be long before he retired as he'd already hit a building, dropped a trailer, had managed to piss everyone off, had 6 points on his licence and constantly moaned about how much he hated the job. And so I stayed.

Then the evilness took another turn, there was constant questioning from the other driver as to what it was I was now doing, how much I was getting paid, and if it was the same as him, he was going to get it sorted!! Who on earth did he think he was?
I was of course ignoring these remarks as best as I could, and by now, totally ignoring him. Although I have to admit, it was getting to me a little and despite being a little happier in my new job, it always made me angry to see him driver up in the lorry and then begin to bitch about how much he hated the job, and of course me!!

The final straw was the other day when he actually started asking around to try and find out when my holidays were so that he could book his at the same time, purely so that I couldn't drive the lorry. I couldn't believe it and mentioned this to my employer, purely because I was worried about not being able to keep my practice up. All I really want to do is be able to have a little run in the lorry every now and then to stop my skills from getting rusty, however, he insists on taking the keys home with him.

I am unfortunately of the opinion that there seems to be more going on than meets the eye, and for some reason the lorry driver is running the show. I don't know why and I don't know how, but I wish I did.
What goes around certainly doesn't seem to come around in my case. I don't know what I've done, but once again it's a case of the good, loyal, helpful people getting screwed simply because they're too nice to stoop that low and do anything about it.

All I want is my job back, a job I loved and was good at, this guy can't go on forever and he knows it. He boasts about how he doesn't need the money as he still has his other business running and complains bout how much he hates the job and the company........i'm coming close to handing that notice in once more, but I absolutely loved that job, and refuse to give in..........what is a pasty to do?

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