I haven't posted much recently, for a variety of reasons.  However, I heard a story at a conference last week which prompted me to want to write.  The story points to the sad moral state of affairs we live in these days.

The story is this.  A company decides to contract out its distribution activity, so it hires a third party company to manage the transportation of its goods by truck.  This third party company then hires drivers to drive these trucks.  One such driver is involved in an accident when driving in the U.S.  The driver is treated, but hurt too badly to be able to drive back.  The two companies argue about whose employee the driver actually is, and both refuse to pay to have him transported back to Canada.  So his wife ends up driving down and picking him up.

To top the story off, the company whose goods are on the truck does pay to have the truck returned to Canada.  So, the goods and truck are important, the driver is not.  Lovely world we live in.