diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3e57207..e0c9b4b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-trait"
-version = "0.1.74"
+version = "0.1.75"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a66537f1bb974b254c98ed142ff995236e81b9d0fe4db0575f46612cb15eb0f9"
+checksum = "fdf6721fb0140e4f897002dd086c06f6c27775df19cfe1fccb21181a48fd2c98"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -358,9 +358,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.34.0"
+version = "1.35.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d0c014766411e834f7af5b8f4cf46257aab4036ca95e9d2c144a10f59ad6f5b9"
+checksum = "c89b4efa943be685f629b149f53829423f8f5531ea21249408e8e2f8671ec104"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "num_cpus",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 449066d..b007a47 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ keywords = ["crawler", "spider"]
 categories = ["web-programming"]
 license = "MIT"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/async_job"
+authors = ["j-mendez <jeff@a11ywatch.com>"]
 
 [dependencies]
-async-trait = "0.1.74"
+async-trait = "0.1.75"
 chrono = "0.4.31"
 cron = "0.12.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 log = "0.4.20"
-tokio = { version = "^1.34.0", features = [ "macros", "time", "parking_lot" ] }
+tokio = { version = "^1.35.0", features = [ "macros", "time", "parking_lot" ] }
 
 [features]
 default = ["rt-multi-thread"]
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 850ba51..52f5634 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -213,13 +213,12 @@ impl Runner {
 
     /// Add jobs into the runner
     ///
-    /// **panics** if you try to push a job onto already started runner
+    /// Does nothing if already running.
     #[allow(clippy::should_implement_trait)]
     pub fn add(mut self, job: Box<dyn Job>) -> Self {
-        if self.running {
-            panic!("Cannot push job onto runner once the runner is started!");
+        if !self.running {
+            self.jobs.push(job);
         }
-        self.jobs.push(job);
         self
     }