My husband works for a local tow truck company and seems to be gone all the time. Granted it is a job and we all know finding a job in today’s market is almost as bad as finding a needle in a haystack. I am very thankful that he has a job and is a hard worker. He is very loyal to his company and works his butt off for the company. The problem I have is I always feel like we never get to spend any time together. Every time we make plans, he gets a call and has to leave. Which I know it is his job. There are other drivers but my husband is the one that is always told to go to the tow.
A couple of examples are: I was broke down beside the road so I call my husband to come tow our truck to the shop. He told me ok let him finish the tow he was on and he would be there. Well, as always, he got another call and he asked the owner of the company’s brother to go get it since he can drive the same wrecker as my husband and I was broke down and it was freezing cold. The brother said he couldn’t go do it because he was eating breakfast. Most days my husband doesn’t even get breakfast because he gets a call and has to run out the door.
Another example is my husband and the other driver is supposed to have alternating weekends off. Well this weekend was supposed to be my husband’s weekend off. Not only because it was his scheduled weekend off but he had to go to Texas for his other job. The weekend starts 9 am Saturday and ends 9 am Monday. My husband gets a call at 8:45 am on Saturday and doesn’t get done with that call until close to 11 am. Nice right. Well he was able to take off after that for a couple hours but then the brother, who is supposed to be the backup when one of the regular drivers is off, calls and tells my husband that he needs to stay on until he left for Texas on Sunday because he didn’t want to come into town and cover any in town calls until the other driver got back. So my husband didn’t get even a full day off from the tow truck company. It’s frustrating that the brother, who supposed to be back up, didn’t want to do his job so my husband didn’t get his time off to spend with his family. And it wasn’t like there was a good reason; he just didn’t want to drive to town.
My husband and I argue quite often because of all this and I am thankful he has a job but I feel his boss and the brother takes advantage of him. Not to mention he has to run his butt off to even make a decent paycheck.
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Sounds like his boss is taking advantage of the poor job market. Let's face it...if your husband stood up for himself, his boss could let him go and finding a new job isn't the easiest thing right now. Good employers are hard to find. Hopefully, things will change for him and your family soon!
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