For most of my entire life, my "superiors", elders, and others who claim that they know better, have, when I explained what was happening to me, decided I was mentally ill, deceived, ignorant, etc. The following is just one example of the sort of retards to which I've been subjected. Doesn't matter if it's the legal, trucking or some other occupation where I have had to answer to people who weren't fit to kiss my....
On Monday I rode with Edward W. Seyfert as a PSD. Mr. Seyfert was loud, foul-mouthed and
offensive from the beginning. Less than a handful of times did I hear him complete a
sentence without an obscenity. Oftentimes there would just be a stream of disgusting
language. I was not impressed by his stories of his sexual exploits. As a new employee, I
tried to play along and share my stories. In hindsight, I am embarrassed by my behavior.
On Wednesday morning I woke up and was lying in the top bunk. I suddenly realized the
truck was moving, and | quickly descended the ladder. Mr. Seyfert then began loudly
berating me for moving around in the cab whilst the truck was moving.
I repeatedly offered to drive, and he refused. I only drove a few hours starting 2200 the first
day, until about 0200 the second day. When I was driving, he repeatedly fell asleep, would
wake up briefly to scream obscenities and berate me for my poor driving. He repeatedly
told me I looked tense, and I should relax.
He was a good instructor on the pad. I completed my four maneuvers, pulling forward,
backward, parallel parking, etc. on my first day. I had a CDL in Japan and in California 25
years ago.
When he was driving was repeatedly falling asleep. On the first night when I saw him
sleeping, I tried to engage him in conversation. At one point | looked over and saw his head
tilted over and I loudly yelled HELLO to wake him up. The next day the same thing
happened. I had become so dissatisfied and disgusted by my supposed Instructor that I
thought rather than wake him up, we ought just die.
The day before I rode with him, Mr. Seyfert had a PSD named Daniel. Daniel quit Prime Inc.
the second day of riding with Mr. Seyfert (EWS). EWS told me that when EWS was driving
and Daniel was with him, EWS was falling asleep and at one point they were a quarter
second from him killing them both.
EWS also claimed that he had been suspended previously for 60 days because he had
urinated into a bottle in front of a student in the cab.
While we were at a rest stop, he was standing between the seats, near the bunks. He
frequently discussed politics and I tried to navigate a safe response. At one point he
became extremely aggressive whilst standing over me in the passenger seat. He was raising
his voice because I refused to indicate my political party affiliation. I explained to him that I
do not vote.
Rarely would more than a few minutes go by without him screaming obscenities at other
motorists. One motorist in New Hampshire was just waving hello, and this earned the
motorist a stream of vulgarity.
He repeatedly flashed his lights, honked long with the air horn, and yelled at passenger cars who he felt were driving to slowly or were in his way.
I was embarrassed and humiliated to be assigned this so-called instructor. He will undoubtedly continue with this behavior unless he is suspended or terminated.
Mr. Seyfert was very kind on occasion. He repeatedly shared his food with me. His spouse is a very good cook. My Comdata card was not working, and Connecticut, despite claiming I would have almost 500 dollars in food stamps this past Sunday, has not put any money on my EBT card. I had $20 when I got in his cab. In the first 10 minutes he asked to borrow $10 which he claimed he would repay to me. He did not. He offered to let me take a sleeping bag and pillow he had purchased for Daniel. He then tried to make a joke about me owing him more money for the food he had given me.
