The best way to cover your butt when there is a problem is to make everyone believe the problem never existed, then divert attention to the other "more serious" problems in the organization.
How hard would it have been to make duplicate copies of the bar codes (or remove the original ones if you were actively stealing the disks) and place them where they could be found during an investigation.
The fact that they write off the un-used bar-codes without mentioning that good procedure would log bar-codes when they are used (not just when they are printed), makes this result suspicious.
Make sure it is for a courier company that doesn't use electronics to guide you through your route and make sure you are doing pickups. Make sure it is in a city that you have never been to before (move temporarily) and change routes on a regular basis.
Eons ago, I used to work for DHL in the Boston office (I was born and raised in Minnesota and have since moved back) doing pickups on several routes (I think I still could easily find my way around there easily). This was before the cool electronic devices that organize the routes for the driver. I consider that to have been the most stressful job I have ever held. There is nothing like the stress of picking up packages on a time-schedule, when you have to find your way with a paper map (I was sent out cold to areas I had never been to before) and also getting calls for pickups (over a radio). Unlike some of the other couriers, I managed to stay away from heavy drugs and alcoholism (although the occasional drink after work could be quite relaxing).
Yes, my current position (I manage 150 Windows machines, including the domain controllers and samba services [plus help people who run a hundred or so self-managed Windows machines] - co-manage several hundred sun, sgi, linux and FreeBSD machines - run the DHCP and DNS Servers, and co-manage the network switches and router where I work) can be stressfull at times.
Perhaps working a truly stressful job will give you a better perspective of what real stress is. A simple job has the stress of boredom. Even a bus driver has the stress of possible people with knives and guns and stupid riders who stand right next to the curb when the bus pulls up (think what the stress level of injuring a passenger by running them over would be). Every job has stress. If it isn't the type of stress you can handle, then you are in the wrong line of work.
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The best way to cover your butt when there is a problem is to make everyone believe the problem never existed, then divert attention to the other "more serious" problems in the organization.
How hard would it have been to make duplicate copies of the bar codes (or remove the original ones if you were actively stealing the disks) and place them where they could be found during an investigation.
The fact that they write off the un-used bar-codes without mentioning that good procedure would log bar-codes when they are used (not just when they are printed), makes this result suspicious.
Make sure it is for a courier company that doesn't use electronics to guide you through your route and make sure you are doing pickups. Make sure it is in a city that you have never been to before (move temporarily) and change routes on a regular basis.
Eons ago, I used to work for DHL in the Boston office (I was born and raised in Minnesota and have since moved back) doing pickups on several routes (I think I still could easily find my way around there easily). This was before the cool electronic devices that organize the routes for the driver. I consider that to have been the most stressful job I have ever held. There is nothing like the stress of picking up packages on a time-schedule, when you have to find your way with a paper map (I was sent out cold to areas I had never been to before) and also getting calls for pickups (over a radio). Unlike some of the other couriers, I managed to stay away from heavy drugs and alcoholism (although the occasional drink after work could be quite relaxing).
Yes, my current position (I manage 150 Windows machines, including the domain controllers and samba services [plus help people who run a hundred or so self-managed Windows machines] - co-manage several hundred sun, sgi, linux and FreeBSD machines - run the DHCP and DNS Servers, and co-manage the network switches and router where I work) can be stressfull at times.
Perhaps working a truly stressful job will give you a better perspective of what real stress is. A simple job has the stress of boredom. Even a bus driver has the stress of possible people with knives and guns and stupid riders who stand right next to the curb when the bus pulls up (think what the stress level of injuring a passenger by running them over would be). Every job has stress. If it isn't the type of stress you can handle, then you are in the wrong line of work.