This is from years ago, but it still holds ground. I was reading the other complaints and theres always someone out there who is quick to defend them. Ive got one thats inexcusable, because they knew full and well that i was a danger to myself and others in the condition i was in.
I worked for Covenant about 3 years ago. I went to their main facility, I drove with the promise of being reimbursed at roughly 30 cents a mile. I didnt want to take the bus, forget it. I never did get reimbursed, and i had to drive there twice, for whatever reason, i dont remember. It was roughly 400 miles each direction.
Anywho, training was. Confusing, to say the least. I was paired with 3 other guys, using a shifter i wasnt trained to use. He still passed me.
Getting to the point, when i finally got paired up, the guy was so disturbing. I use that Lightly too. He didnt believe in a microwave or a tv or even showering. He was just some redneck, plain and simple.
As a result, i experienced the "Fight Club" syndrome: I Couldnt Sleep. At all. I went roughly 3 or 4 days with no sleep and still driving through the mountains. I made complaints with the people over the qualcomm. No one gave a damn, it was just some black man returning the message 12 hours later, or someone who had come in to replace him (Hey, its ok if he sleeps right?). I came close to going over a cliff on more then one occasion, and when i was driving i was getting delirious and thinking that i had fallen asleep. Worst time of my life.
To make a long story short: I got into a bad accident due to sleep deprivation. The trailer wheel wrapped around a phone pole and the whole thing was completely fubar'ed. The load had to be trashed and i dont know what happened with the trailer. It was glass bottles, believe it or not. I didnt know what was going on even then, i explained the symptoms to a friend and it was described as crashing from meth. Yucky. Its like, youre awake but youre really not.
The police let it go, thank god. The dispatcher on the other end put me on a bus and told me to go home.
When tax time came, the report was that i had quit. I didnt, obviously.
If you ever end up in a covenant center, you'll see that theres many many people there, due to the High turnover rate. Other people have said this, im just adding to the list.
Another thing too: This company is Crazy about religion. They have a lot of absurd rules too on what you can and cant do, the only one i remember is you cant bring your wife along or something. I know the rules of being a private company, you're not bound by church and state separation, but theyre just absurd. Even had some evangelist come in and sing, the people who saw him described him as a man with a head like grapefruit and screamed and loved shaking his fist with a beet-red face (Eat your heart out Pat Robertson!). What did i do? Broke the rules and got drunk in my room (Yeah, believe it or not, they dont let you have a few beers on your time off in your private room. I rebelled and got piss drunk)
Last thing: When the training was over in a few days, they couldnt find me a trainer. Guess what they did in the meantime? Refused to give me meal tickets so i could eat. Yep, the company who hired me wouldnt feed me their cafeteria slop that's unfit for bums, hows that suit ya?
The trainer who showed up. Well, i described him already. He was asleep in the waiting room and smelled like a toilet. I shouldve pretended i was "the friend" of me as an excuse, then bailed.
Theres other complaints too, but i dont remember, it was many years ago and ive moved on long ago.
Stay away, this company is poison. It will greatly increase your life-expectancy rate.
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