Toronto Redimix / G & L
In my opinion- As an experienced Redimix driver, I worn other drivers of the worst experience I've had from driver trainer to management. This is a picture from one of many videos of the driver trainer who has been driving Redi-Mix for 1 year 6 months total, according to him.
Anthony, truck # 85
Firstly, the driver trainer drove without a seatbelt for 3 days
- The trainer couldn't even shift properly and was grinding gears one through five every time we had to come to a stop.
- (I let him know I have over 10 years experience in the Ready mix industry as a driver, and I have trained before )
On job, I'm standing on the back of the platform looking in the back of the truck, I see exactly what we're pouring and i know we need to add water, I let the trainer know my opinion -that we need to put water, and instead of having a look and help adjust the load,
He says, you know what you gotta do because you're older than everybody so you know better, and starts laughing.
I stepped down, he took over.
Very unprofessional in front of customers.
He comes back in the truck to lean on my shoulder heavily and says
"What's the matter princess?"
I didn't say anything back.
Then he began to get ready to leave, and then we left. (I'm sitting in the pass. side)
- At a few job sites that we went to he unloaded his garbage from the truck on the ground, I'm looking at him, I didn't know what to say.
He looks at me and says "doing my part for the environment"
- Runs a red light as he is training, doesn't even care.
We were finishing up at another job, I'm doing my cleaning at the back of the truck with the recycling system. (I've done this over 1000 times in my career as a driver) and the trainer walks up to me saying, let me show you my technique, I say no problem.
I stand back as he starts to take things apart and I say "if you wanna take over it's OK," he freaks out, throws the hose in the air and throws his arms up in the air and walks away yelling "you don't listen to me , you don't wanna learn."
I finish cleaning up, get into the truck and
we began to pull out of the job site, and he says to me you don't listen.
I didn't know what to say, but I spoke from the heart, I said "we're gonna be fellow coworkers, I don't think we're gonna be tight though."
Then-
He started yelling - pull over the f-king
truck right now
Pull over the fucking truck right now, throwing his arms up in the air yelling pull over the f-king truck now.
I came to a quick safe stop on the side of the road
He yells "get the f-k out of the driver seat right now"
I get into the passenger seat, he jumps in the driver seat. We start driving and he starts yelling, You don't listen -you don't listen -you don't listen kept on repeating himself like a broken record.
We got back to the yard. He called the office and said to the manager me and the trainee we're not seeing eye to eye today, and I got out at the Yard and before leaving, I let management know what had happened and I was told that I would be training with somebody else on the following week. Starting Monday, It was Friday..
I received No phone call Monday, I called them on Tuesday, I was told I would be called back shortly. No call back. I called them on Wednesday to speak to Dino the manager for him to say this isn't working out,
After I explain to Dino the manager what had happened he completely disregarded what was said.
(How could the Manager allow such behaviour to go on.)
I was let go, but I was not given a reason as to why ? It didn't matter what was said, didn't matter what recordings I had.
In my opinion, Toronto Redimix is not managed properly, and for that reason, there is no future at G & L.
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