Staying Below The Radar

Sort of a weird question? I, like everyone else in my position, starting school in January, scrambling to learn as much as possible and interpret truth from fiction, especially on YouTube. So I go through school, get my CDL with all the applicable endorsements, with any luck after that I'm off to train with a good company, basically at this point my future is in the hands of my trainer. So half-way through my training, he decides to interview me on camera about my experience so far with the company. To be honest, I'm a little freaked out by this being that once the interview is on the internet for all to see, well I don't see any good coming out of it, for me at least. I just see someone in management seeing this video I made with my trainer, possibly misinterpreting something I said, and boom, I'm on the next eastbound bus back to NH.

Am I way over thinking this?

Never heard of a trainer video taping an interview half way through, but Im new to this so maybe it happens more than I would think. If it happened to me I think I would handle it one of two ways.

1. Find a reason to decline the interview. You feel the camera will steal your mojo, your in witness protection program and cant be video taped, your hiding from ex-wives and dont want to risk being found. Be creative

2. Agree to the interview and be selective about your words. If your wife/girlfriend/significant-other asked if her or his clothes made them look fat how would you answer? I'm sure, or at least I hope, you could answer with out trowing yourself under the bus.

Overall yes, I think your making too much of it. If you work hard and are doing the right things and doing them well I would doubt that someone in management would kick ya out because of something said on a video. Not if you think before you speak.

Do yourself a big favor and stay off the other sites at least until you are though orientation. You have plenty of work ahead of you to keep you busy. You sure do not need the stories of those who didnt make it filling your head with stuff to worry about.

Study hard, LISTEN to instructors, ask questions to instructors and on Trucking Truth, apply yourself and you will do fine. Don't sweat the small stuff and the stuff that has not even happened yet. Take a deep breath and roll with it. This will help you not only in getting through training but in everything that is gonna happen over your experience as a professional driver.

Woody

My first response off the top of my head would be....

STAY AWAY FROM THAT INTERVIEW.

As you are thinking. Once on "film" it is open for anyone to see. However. I take the attitude, I don't say anything to a stranger that I wouldn't say to the company owner. Good or bad.

I shoot straight from the hip. Most people don't know how to take me. I don't hold back.

Now in saying that. Yes, things I have said at times have been taken the wrong way and there have been problems.

But as a verse in a favorite song of mine says, "regrets, I have a few, but too few to mention".

If more people today would say what was on their minds instead of talking behind people's backs, our country might be in better shape.

Keep it safe out there, the life you save might be your own. Joe S.

I would politely decline. I personally don't post pictures, video or anything else personal on the internet. I don't have a Facebook account or any other type of social media account. Im a very private person and its my personal preference to keep it that way.