Well as some of you may know i packed in my previous job of car transporter driver early last year after many years, i was in a state of complete exhaustion and probably stressed to near breaking point**, though didn't realise just how bad until months after i'd packed the job in...though SWM had seen the deterioration and told me to get out of the job....her words, 'i do not want to be the richest widow in our town'.
Have since been temping for agencies.
That's been an eye opener i can tell you, one thing that hasn't changed is that the agency admin/allocation staff lie as a matter of course, and when you leave there's every likelihood you won't get any holiday pay owed.
I got on well at most client sites and mutual repect is fairly common, though the rudeness and ignorance at some surprising sites is staggering, a more polite and fruitful conversation likely to be had at the monkey cage in Whipsnade....little wonder some of these high street and big names can't retain a driver worth their salt.
It's kept the wolf from the door though and i've had 16 months of working recuperation, so back to full health fingers crossed.
I walked into a reception one morning a month or so ago, spoke to nice reception lady who in turn spoke to one of the transport dept seniors, he came down and we had a brief chat, he asked me to send in my CV but there was nothing doing at the moment.
I assumed that was the last of it.
CV on his desk the following morning, couple of days later i get a call, driving assesment, interview all went well and i start full time tanker driving in a weeks time, old fashioned long established company too, works for me.
Good feeling to be back into a proper job, decent hours and salary.
I'm extremely grateful for my good luck, just shows that the old way of putting a face through the door can still work, reasonably well presented and polite is so important at that initial contact, though few here would need any tutoring in that dept..
** i hadn't twigged how close i was to breakdown, not trying to be a drama queen, i still chat to my old transporter workmates on the phone some days and one or two sound exactly like i was before leaving.
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