In my case it wasn't really about the deadline so much as I'm delivering in the center of a residential block and having to leave it, find a 7-Eleven or something, park a bigass van without windows, use the restroom, then get back to my route. It takes a lot of time and breaks my flow and it's a lot easier to just pee in one of the many empty bottles I have because I drink a lot
Edit: and yes it's completely normalized the boss even told us not to leave pee bottles in our vans after our shift in a "come on man" kinda way rather than a "this is unacceptable and you're gonna be fired" way
Then the truck will end up smelling like piss and shit.
Also bathroom breaks should be built-in, and there should be a way to hit (find me a place to bathroom/urgency) to find a place that has a restroom/parking as close to the route as possible, so like if you need a bathroom in 20-30 vs NOW. Or also simply having indexes of good starbucks/711/spots to use.
There is also the fact that this is a consequence of the LONG routes a lot of these places use.
Actually, going out on a tree crew to drag brush (to the chipper) was good, because tons of guys took shits in the back of the chip trucks lol, so it was a porta-shitter as long as there was room for you to stand in the back
But only tree crews had that luxury, everything else was “hold it or find somewhere to slink off to”
Is this like normalized, is the deadline really that demanding?
In my case it wasn't really about the deadline so much as I'm delivering in the center of a residential block and having to leave it, find a 7-Eleven or something, park a bigass van without windows, use the restroom, then get back to my route. It takes a lot of time and breaks my flow and it's a lot easier to just pee in one of the many empty bottles I have because I drink a lot
Edit: and yes it's completely normalized the boss even told us not to leave pee bottles in our vans after our shift in a "come on man" kinda way rather than a "this is unacceptable and you're gonna be fired" way
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Then the truck will end up smelling like piss and shit.
Also bathroom breaks should be built-in, and there should be a way to hit (find me a place to bathroom/urgency) to find a place that has a restroom/parking as close to the route as possible, so like if you need a bathroom in 20-30 vs NOW. Or also simply having indexes of good starbucks/711/spots to use.
There is also the fact that this is a consequence of the LONG routes a lot of these places use.
Landscaping was similar for me.
Actually, going out on a tree crew to drag brush (to the chipper) was good, because tons of guys took shits in the back of the chip trucks lol, so it was a porta-shitter as long as there was room for you to stand in the back
But only tree crews had that luxury, everything else was “hold it or find somewhere to slink off to”