UGH

If you listen really closely you can hear it...shhhh...wait for it...there it is. Someone just said something really stupid. It happens several times a day in my life, sometimes I partake in the stupidity as well. For example on Saturday night I go to a poker game with about 2 people I know there and 20 people I don't know. The game was Hold'em and I hear this guy playing at a different table than me spew this doozy "I lose with Aces(pocket aces is what he's referring to) 90% of the time." For those of you trapped under a rock for the last 8 years and haven't played or seen hold'em played, aces are the best hand you can start with. So the idea that one would lose with the best starting had 90% of the time is laughable. That's immediately followed by this gem "When I have Aces there's only 2 left in the deck for me to hit(the other 2 aces). I'd rather have Ace/King because it gives me more cards to hit my outs." This might just be the absolute dumbest thing I've ever heard. He would rather have more "outs" to hopefully hit a hand that will MAYBE be as good as the hand he claims to lose with 90% of the time, AND SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT. So by his theory he would rather be DRAWING to a pair of aces as opposed to having them from the start!!!!! Now I would normally relish in giving this goon a ration of shit but since I knew 2 people there I thought it wise to bite my tongue.

I was giving one of my drivers his load information today and upon telling him that he had 5 different places to stop and what the load paid he says "That's a lot of work for that amount of money." Let me explain something to you about my field of work. The truck gets paid x amount of dollars to travel x amount of miles in x amount of days. The idea is to get the most money for the least amount of miles in the shortest period of time. The load in question passed all these tests but because in had to go to 5 different places he was pissed. This, in turn, pissed me the fuck off. The rest of the conversation went something like this:
Brilliant Dispatcher: :"Would you rather I found you an easy fucking load that paid like shit?"
Stupid Truck Driver: "Well no, but the load we do to Beloit almost pays as much as this one does and it only has 1 stop."
Brilliant Dispatcher: "That's true and IF there was a load to Beloit, I'd have gotten it for you but there isn't and this is a good fucking load."
Stupid Truck Driver: "I'm not mad at you, I just wish they would pay more for these multi-stop loads."
Brilliant Dispatcher: "They are paying more, a straight load(this means 1 pickup and 1 delivery) to Chicago out of Denver usually pays about $1200.00 This one pays $1575.00 So you're getting paid for you extra work."

Truck drivers are a whole different breed of people. There are exceptions to every rule, but by and large truckers are whiney, full of shit, irresponsible, and long winded just to name a few. Truckers will whine about whatever load they have gotten no matter how good it may be. They will then tell another trucker how great their load is and how much money they make and yada, yada, yada. Basically if their lips are moving, they are feeding someone a line of bullshit. It normally doesn't bother me and usually I find it comical but when I have to explain to a guy that he's making more money for working hard and not spending it on fuel...it can get tiresome. Only one of my guys is this way and he's not usually as bad as I've portrayed him to be here. I do have another guy who gets diarrhea of the mouth though and I'll finally get so annoyed that I snap at him to get to the god damned point. He thinks I'm an ass. And I guess if the shoe fits...