browniehound
Well-Known Member
What do you mean by the over 9.5 rule enforced? Where I work, If you think you will be over 9.5 hours by 1500 hours you must send a message to the center on what you need to lose. Nobody ever gets help so its just an exercise.
When you say "the 9.5 rule is enforced" do you mean you still need to send a message 1-10 days before Christmas that you are going over? To me this is a waste of time and money spent sending the messages.
My attitude is let us get the job done. The work you give us is more than a 9.5 dispacth even by UPS standards. So please, give me my helper and 320+ stops and I will get the job done around 10 hours. Don't nickel and dime me with the helper and make me send messages. If you want to cut my helper loose early to save $9.50, it will hurt you to the tune of $43/hour and another $10 for the time bonus (in MA we get 20 min. of OT after 10 hours).
My opinion is take your numbers and ignore them. I say this for UPS's sake. I can only use my helper for x amount of hours? This is ridiculous. Its almost free labor for UPS to keep the helper. They are not paying benifits or pension money to the helper. They are paying him $9.50/hour and if the helper team is average, UPS is getting 40-50 stops per hour or 20-25 stops/hour for $9.50. The other 11 months of the year UPS pays me $29 for 15-20 stops.
This guy or gal is making $9.50 an hour, why are you worried about his cost? After 530pm OT kicks in for me but its time to cut the slave labor loose?
If I could keep him an extra hour I could stay under 10. Oh well its not my numbers.
Does this make sense to anyone????
When you say "the 9.5 rule is enforced" do you mean you still need to send a message 1-10 days before Christmas that you are going over? To me this is a waste of time and money spent sending the messages.
My attitude is let us get the job done. The work you give us is more than a 9.5 dispacth even by UPS standards. So please, give me my helper and 320+ stops and I will get the job done around 10 hours. Don't nickel and dime me with the helper and make me send messages. If you want to cut my helper loose early to save $9.50, it will hurt you to the tune of $43/hour and another $10 for the time bonus (in MA we get 20 min. of OT after 10 hours).
My opinion is take your numbers and ignore them. I say this for UPS's sake. I can only use my helper for x amount of hours? This is ridiculous. Its almost free labor for UPS to keep the helper. They are not paying benifits or pension money to the helper. They are paying him $9.50/hour and if the helper team is average, UPS is getting 40-50 stops per hour or 20-25 stops/hour for $9.50. The other 11 months of the year UPS pays me $29 for 15-20 stops.
This guy or gal is making $9.50 an hour, why are you worried about his cost? After 530pm OT kicks in for me but its time to cut the slave labor loose?
If I could keep him an extra hour I could stay under 10. Oh well its not my numbers.
Does this make sense to anyone????