Employee doing pills

Chevyrob

Chevyrob

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I started working for the company I'm at just over a month ago. The kid who drives the bucket since he has a CDL is doing pills on the job. Im not a snitch and hate to see someone lose their job since he's a nice kid but, he's snorting these things while driving the bucket. It's happened 2 or 3 times that I've seen. How should I go about handling this?
 
Tell your boss you want a different crew. If he asks why, tell him to ask his driver. Pills kill. When you can't afford the pills, you turn to Heroin. That is the end. Tell your driver your intentions too. You may just help save his life. Fuck his job. If he really wanted it, he wouldn't be doing pills.
 
If you respect your boss and respect the fact that he works for his money and his livelihood is on the line with every decision that each employee and he makes. All it takes to ruin a business' reputation is for something stupid to happen like an accident caused by drugs to spread through the community and hurt the owner and his family for years.
Here another company's employee was driving a dump on drugs and hit a row of cars and that is the only reputation of the company that I had heard to that point. Owners put faith in employees and there's no way to control every situation from a distracted employee getting killed under falling trees (happened at the same company as the druggy driver) to losing jobs because of poor job performance due to employees not showing up.
Sorry to be lengthy but man up and look after the people that look after you. I expect my employees to speak up, and it's your life in the hands of that impaired kid
 
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Aside from the safety aspect and the health of the individual doing drugs on the job, we fight for respect of our industry and something like this completely undermines our efforts. Hopefully the kid will get help before he causes an accident that kills someone.
 
I'm a firm believer in addressing the source of the problem first. Talk to the kid and tell him how it affects not just his safety, but the safety of everyone around him while he's operating and that you won't tolerate it. If he gives you attitude or you see he keeps popping or if you even suspect he's still popping go to your boss.
 
You're not a snitch if you're taking care of business. It's not personal its business.
Keeping yourself and your company healthy.

I had a fellow freeze up on me once. installing a rough cut cedar fly rafter 50 feet up. Turns out he got high at coffee break. I've got zero tolerance for intoxicants at work. Zero. No apologies needed. Talk to the boss, like yesterday.
 
Boomslang said:
I'm a firm believer in addressing the source of the problem first. Talk to the kid and tell him how it affects not just his safety, but the safety of everyone around him while he's operating and that you won't tolerate it. If he gives you attitude or you see he keeps popping or if you even suspect he's still popping go to your boss.
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Asking the kid to use better judgement and not use is overlooking the fact that he either doesn't care about the job or has no self control over the pills. I still say go to the boss first and let him decide what to do or at the very least crew leader or the rest of the crew to confront the issue before it bring the whole company down. Boss may just start keeping an eye on the kid but if I found out someone was driving impaired on my job their gone immediately, regardless of the pain of being a driver down
 
I try never to let someone else's decision become my crisis to fix. Talking to the kid just makes you a co-owner of his problem.. What if he causes an injury 2 days after you take him aside to talk to him. Now you own a piece of the outcome because you decided that beyond your experience as a climber, you're also a rehab therapist. BS. Choices are basically, Tell the boss, Walk away.. or Tell the boss and walk away.
 
cerviarborist said:
I try never to let someone else's decision become my crisis to fix. Talking to the kid just makes you a co-owner of his problem.. What if he causes an injury 2 days after you take him aside to talk to him. Now you own a piece of the outcome because you decided that beyond your experience as a climber, you're also a rehab therapist. BS. Choices are basically, Tell the boss, Walk away.. or Tell the boss and walk away.
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Personally, I would talk to the dude snorting the pills first. There is a way to be a friend in the matter, yet voice your concerns and possible scenarios with talking to the boss, and clearly. If that doesn't work, well, you did your best.

Pharmaceutical opiates (assumption) are an aweful mix with bucket-trucks and chainsaws. It isn't safe for anyone. That can't go on.
 
Sounds like a random pee in cup day is in order. I heard of a guy working for a city near by tested positive for Coke, after the city randomly tested everyone. The guy was promptly fired and was only a short time away from retirement. From what I heard he lost his retirement pension too. Addiction is not something that can be reasoned with. I think it is important to let him know you care about him, but if he is truly addicted he will not be able to stop.
 
I would go right to the boss, clearly he doesn't care about his safety or any one else's if he's snorting pills while driving. That's a completely different scenario than him doing it at home where he can only hurt him self. And if the boss brushes it under the rug I'd quite, everyone on the crew needs to keep an eye out for one another, and be fully aware of what's going on, nothing good will come of it he doesn't respect the boss or his equipment what makes you think he care about you and your safety
 
Thanks for all the opinions guys. The kid isn't exactly a valuable employee he has no skills except for driving. We are a 1 crew right now but growing rapidly. It sucks because he is the only CDL driver we have. I think I am going to go to my supervisor before I go to the big boss. He will know how to address the situation. It sucks because I love and care about what I do and this kid is just here to get a paycheck. It doesn't look good with our name all over the truck while he's swerving and not stopping at lights and shit. It's pissing me off the more I think about it.
 
Just to compound the advices further, not worth the job in any way shape or form, forget about the company logo, what about your life being on the line ! Personally I would of thrown the kid out of the truck and drove it back to base and reported him right then and there, with or without a CDL.

Snorting pills, kid needs help.
 
james mauldin said:
If you respect your boss and respect the fact that he works for his money and his livelihood is on the line with every decision that each employee and he makes. All it takes to ruin a business' reputation is for something stupid to happen like an accident caused by drugs to spread through the community and hurt the owner and his family for years.
Here another company's employee was driving a dump on drugs and hit a row of cars and that is the only reputation of the company that I had heard to that point. Owners put faith in employees and there's no way to control every situation from a distracted employee getting killed under falling trees (happened at the same company as the druggy driver) to losing jobs because of poor job performance due to employees not showing up.
Sorry to be lengthy but man up and look after the people that look after you. I expect my employees to speak up, and it's your life in the hands of that impaired kid
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Never mind a row of cars it could be a row of kids on there way to school.
You would not be in the wrong to take this to your boss and if that doesn't work find a new job.
 
Chevyrob said:
Thanks for all the opinions guys. The kid isn't exactly a valuable employee he has no skills except for driving. We are a 1 crew right now but growing rapidly. It sucks because he is the only CDL driver we have. I think I am going to go to my supervisor before I go to the big boss. He will know how to address the situation. It sucks because I love and care about what I do and this kid is just here to get a paycheck. It doesn't look good with our name all over the truck while he's swerving and not stopping at lights and shit. It's pissing me off the more I think about it.
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There are other people who are dying to work out there find another driver
 
If the company name and phone number is on the side of the truck all it takes is a phone call from a "concerned citizen" saying that the driver of the truck was seen snorting something in the bucket truck and swerving all over the road. End of discussion. There is no room for that in society in general.
 
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